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Apple Addresses Location Tracking with iOS 4.3.3 Software Update
It’s been a hot week for Apple and Google when it comes to tracking the locations of customers who use their smartphones. Almost two weeks ago, security researchers in the UK made it widely known that iOS devices track users everywhere they go. This revelation (which wasn’t really a revelation to much of the security ...
Google’s Location Services Trigger Raid on South Korean Offices
It looks like lawsuits and more lawsuits aren’t the only thing that smartphone service carriers like Apple and Google need to worry about—in South Korea it’s lead to a police raid of one of Google’s offices. According to an article in eWEEK what triggered this raid by South Korean police happens to be a hyperlocal ...
Nokia Waiting for the Right Time to Enter Tablet Marketplace
In a market that is saturated with basically all the same product what’s the best way to get sold? Stand out. At least that’s what Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, believes will be how his company will make their mark when they go to market with their first tablet. An article on PCMag picks out ...
Data Loss from PlayStation Network Extended to Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment went temporarily offline Monday after it was discovered that they also lost customer records in a hack that attacked the PlayStation Network. In this latest string of video game and entertainment related information loss, it continues to send ripples through consumer awareness of how vulnerable their information can be online. The initial ...
Android WiFi Takes Blows in Tracking Class-Action Lawsuit and Tether-Wars
A class-action lawsuit has finally emerged from complaints against Google Android over handsets tracking customer locations. This seemed only inevitable after Apple found itself on the receiving end of its own lawsuit involving the furtive tracking of users. The differences between the two devices seem to be that iOS doesn’t send tracking data to Apple, ...
Twitter Doesn’t Compete with Broadcast Media, It Amplifies
The recent reports of the death of Osama bin Laden have brought up some interesting remarks about the role that social media has begun to play in the journalistic sphere. In fact, Twitter became the kindling the lit the fire behind the news when tweets confirmed Osama’s death before the President of the United States ...
Memo Reveals How Important WiFi Location Services are for Google Android
Location services are becoming a big part of what smartphones do for us and as a result they gather a lot of information about where we are. With the recent debacle of Apple’s iOS recording everywhere you go by pinpointing nearby WiFi signal’s in a file, it’s become a question of how important that information ...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Amazon EC2 Crash
Last week generated the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for the cloud and specifically Amazon’s cloud when their service crashed and took down a multitude of sites that depended on it. It’s taken a week, but Amazon has finally generated a vast enumeration of exactly what went down and why—the explanation is not ...
Zappos.com Puts Crowdsourcing where its Mouth is with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
The idea behind crowdsourcing has always been taking the combined efforts of a large group and directing them towards a single task. In a lot of venues, crowdsourcing can be used for charity by taking small donations from large numbers of people, it can be used to rapidly develop a lot of information about a ...
Hulu Plus on Xbox LIVE this Friday, First Week is Free
Like chocolate and peanut butter, Hulu and Xbox LIVE are great tastes that will go great together and they will be together this Friday. Starting April 29th, Hulu Plus is coming to Xbox LIVE and through a promotion the opening week will be free for XBL subscribers. The service, which offers streaming HD content of ...