The row about iPhone data logging rumbles on today. One security expert says your iPhone sends your location to Apple “twice a day” – and that you agreed to it (even if you didn’t realize it at the time).
Another says the data file at the center of the row is nothing new, and that Apple never gets its hands on it.
In the event someone can’t quit you–or that they can–take comfort from the fact that the service known for tracking who’s disembarked from your Twitter ship just got a small confidence bump from Twitter Counter.
You know, the guys who bought Twitter ranking and stats site Twitaholic? They shelled out exactly $11,111 at public …
2D glasses that flatten out 3D movies? It’s the kind of idea you wish you’d come up with, because these things are going to sell like crazy.
One pair costs $10 including shipping, and apparently cancels out the 3D effect in movie theaters (I haven’t tried them myself). Creator Hank Green says he originally built the specs for his …
Miffed about all those catalogs cramming your mailbox daily? Here’s their commercial raison d’etre: Catalogs are the top revenue driver for retailers in the US, driving somewhere between 45-65% of all sales. No wonder, then, that between 18 and 20 billion catalogs are mailed annually (the average US household gets in the region of 200 …
Toshiba’s been talking up its Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet since January, but has kept quiet on details until now.
In Japan, at least, the tablet is dubbed the Toshiba Regza AT300, and carries a price tag of 60,000 yen (roughly $723).
A product page on Toshiba’s Dynabook.com website confirms specs posted earlier on Amazon: …
If there’s one thing that iPad users don’t lack, it’s a way of staying on top of what’s going on. Apps like Flipboard, Zite and Decks, or services like Summify or PostPost, give users the chance to sit back and let the internet sort through the noise to find specific signals based on criteria they’ve selected to such success that it’s no …
13 too small? 15 too big? Why not settle for 14-inches of portable powerhouse gaming? Or don’t settle at all with the “most powerful 18-inch gaming laptop in the universe.” Or how about just going the ultraportable route with “the most-powerful sub-14-inch notebook in the universe”?
That iPhone of yours has apparently been storing your whereabouts to a file that gets backed up every time you synchronize your phone with iTunes. The same happens if you’ve got a 3G-enabled iPad, too.
As detailed in a post on O’Reilly Radar, two developers discovered the following:
“All iPhones appear to log your location to a file
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Amazon doesn’t want to kill local libraries, or at least that’s what its newest venture would seem to indicate. A new partnership with OverDrive, slated to launch later this year, will allow patrons to borrow e-books from local libraries to read on their Kindles.
According to a press release, the Kindle Library Lending program …
Those of you who find yourselves tased on a fairly regular basis may be in for double the trouble soon. The new Taser X2 packs two shots into a single pistol-looking “electronic control device.”
The 11.5-ounce X2 has been “designed by law enforcement for law enforcement” to include the “back up shot capability for multiple targets or …
Apps? They’s so old-school.
If you’ve ever encountered the phrase “user interface” before, you’ll probably understand it to mean the stuff we see when we look at computer screens.
Another geeky phrase, “Moore’s Law”, refers to the ever-advancing march of computing in a single direction: our devices get smaller, faster, more …
Another day, another iPhone 5 rumor: according to Reuters, the iPhone 5 will ship in September.
Surprising a total of zero people, the new phone is said to have a “faster processor” (hands up who thought Apple might be dropping to a slower one?), three anonymous sources told Reuters staff.
Production starts in July and completed …
