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Seeking quick access to applications with high graphic content over WAN, e.g., PDF, PPT, 2-D applications, streaming video and Flash? Give Ericom Blaze a shot with a free 30 day trial. It's a...
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"No permissions" Android app allows secret data harvesting
A proof-of-concept "no permissions" app that can not only access data, but sent it anywhere it wants. Scary.
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Facebook denies it is reading your text messages
Facebook has denied allegations that its native apps are reading your text messages. The company has also criticized the original sensationalist article that spread FUD about the issue.
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App permissions: We are our worst enemy
The recent disclosure that iOS allows apps to send personal contact lists to the developer's servers without permission created a justified uproar. Unfortunately users are the real culprits.
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Apple seeks permission to sue already bankrupt Kodak
Apple is seeking permission to sue Kodak for alleged patent infringement.
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Facebook OAuth extension ruffles feathers, nixes user access permission
Facebook has drawn the attention from the IETF with a new proprietary extension it developed for an emerging authentication protocol. The extension alters the way user permissions are set for...
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Clean up your app permissions on Facebook, Twitter, Google
MyPermissions gives you direct links to modify your app permissions on these eight services: Dropbox, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yahoo.
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Google Chrome extension lets you choose Facebook app permissions
A new Google Chrome extension called OOptOut lets you pick and choose which Facebook permissions you need to allow in order to install a given Facebook app.
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Warning: T-Mobile adding pay per use data without your permission
I thought T-Mobile was a friendly carrier, but now they are sneaking in services without my permission and looking to steal my money behind my back. They must have forgot I track this stuff...
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Microsoft hit with class action suit over phone tracking
A security researcher says that Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software can transmit your location without your explicit permission.
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Facebook patents messaging and viewing private profiles
Facebook has patented a system for viewing different people's profiles and messaging them, based on the permission they have set.
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Microsoft: 'We can hand over Office 365 data without your permission'
Microsoft, in a bold and brave move, admits to what many other cloud service providers don't -- that data may be handed over to authorities without consent.
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First-sale doctrine lost for goods purchased overseas
The Supreme Court's 4:4 decision to uphold a Ninth Circuit court decision limiting first-sale doctrine to U.S. produced goods has huge potential implications for the technology you buy.
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CNET retracts article on Android app privacy threat
On Tuesday, security firm SMobile Systems published a report saying that many Android apps exposed private or sensitive information. The report was misleading and self-serving but that didn't stop...
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What's new in Android 1.6 (Donut)? Part 2: Developer features
Over the next several weeks, Android 1.6 will be rolling out to customers via an over-the-air update. In addition to a number of user-facing features such as a new Android Market and a faster...
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Recording VoIP Calls: Is it Legal?
I was on an interview the other day and began thinking about how nice it would have been to record the rather long-winded engineer on the other end of the line. This got me thinking: are you...
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Everything on Facebook is an ad
Social networks can help companies build these shallower levels of permission, if clients are willing to do what's necessary to build them. That's the opportunity social networks, regardless of...
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Friday Rant - Check your Windows Live permissions!
A reader dropped me an email to let me know that changes that Microsoft have made to the Windows Live setup now mean that the service is slowly morphing into a Facebook style online application....
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Viacom perks up at Google Books settlement
Google's settlement with authors could be good news for Viacom, the New York Times' Miguel Helft says. That's because the authors at least think Google has conceded that it needs prior permission...
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Leave Windows Mobile al-o-o-o-o-o-ne!
You will buy a Google Android phone because it has so much stuff on it that comes free. The user interface. The services. The applications. You will buy a Windows Mobile phone because Microsoft...
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50 questions asked and answered on Android
At the very end of the Google I/O 2008 conference last week the Android development team hosted a great fireside chat on the new mobile platform. The session was free-form, completely driven by...
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