Facebook’s slippery slope of privacy changes.
It was at the start of April that I shared with you the news that Facebook was going to share your data with third party websites. Now comes word that third parties can keep the data from Facebook...
View ArticleGoogle’s Wi-Fi gaffe.
Google admitted that their Street View cars, designed to capture images of homes and businesses at street level to augment their Google Maps service. As it turns out, the Wi-Fi code used for one part...
View ArticleTethered to a carrier.
The big news today (at least for my more tech-savvy friends) was the changes announced to the AT&T plans in advance of the new iPhone release. AT&T is discontinuing unlimited plans, but they...
View ArticleSpeed tests, FCC style.
The government is asking citizens across the country to generously share data with them to help them determine just how fast Internet connections are in these great United States right now. They’re...
View ArticleAnother AT&T privacy snafu around an Apple launch.
Just off the discovery of E-mail addresses of early iPad 3G owners and testers comes this little gem from the iPhone 4 pre-order that took place this week: people logging in to pre-order may have been...
View ArticleCould Verizon banish unlimited data too?
Generally, once the first domino falls in the wireless industry, the others follow, and with unlimited data, we might be seeing the next one topple. It appears Verizon is preparing to launch its own...
View Article100 million Facebook users’ data… one file.
Much ado has been made about Facebook and privacy, which I’ve covered here in depth, but what’s the larger implication of all this data being available? To one security researcher, it’s a close to 3...
View ArticleiPad data in U.S. pricier than most other regions.
Awhile back I weighed in on the data changes AT&T was making to reduce the hit to their data network (or at least get paid more for the data they were carrying). But while the U.S. market is...
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