Saturday, April 23, 2011

Your Phone, Yourself: When is tracking too much? (AP)

Your Phone, Yourself: When is tracking too much? (AP)

Your Phone, Yourself: When is tracking too much? (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 08:54 PM PDT

In this April 22, 2011 photo, University of Iowa sophomore Autumn Bradfish, 20, of Lake Zurich, Ill., poses for a picture at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City, Iowa. Bradfish said she had heard little about the reports of her location being collected on her iPhone and she said she was not particularly concerned about the practice. 'If they use it just for ads, I don't see that as a problem. Facebook does that. If I'm going to have ads thrown at me, they might as well be relevant to my location.' (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley)AP - If you're worried about privacy, you can turn off the function on your smartphone that tracks where you go. But that means giving up the services that probably made you want a smartphone in the first place. After all, how smart is an iPhone or an Android if you can't use it to map your car trip or scan reviews of nearby restaurants?

Q-and-A: Smartphone location tracking (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 03:55 PM PDT

AP - The revelation this past week that Apple Inc.'s popular iPhone and iPad devices keep files of users' location data raises legal and ethical questions.

Sony chairman credited with developing CDs dies (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 03:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 1991 file photo, former president and chairman of Sony, Norio Ohga, holds a Sony Mini Disc in New York. Sony says Ohga, credited with developing the compact disc, has died Saturday, April 23, 2011. He was 81. Sony Corp. Chairman Howard Stringer said Ohga helped redefine the Japanese manufacturer not only as an electronic hardware company but helped it also expand into software or entertainment. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)AP - As a young man, aspiring opera singer Norio Ohga wrote to Sony to complain about the quality of its tape recorders. That move changed the course of his life, as the company promptly recruited the man whose love of music would shape the development of the compact disc and transform the Japanese electronics maker into a global software and entertainment empire.

47 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed (Mashable)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 09:48 AM PDT

Mashable - What a week for Mashable! We recently launched Follow, our social layer to help you create a profile and find and share stories to the public. Despite the good news close to home, this week was also a tough one for the journalism community with the death of two top photojournalists, Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, who were hit by an rocket-propelled grenade while working in Libya.

Viral video star Antoine "hide your wife" Dodson arrested (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 05:39 PM PDT

Reuters - Kevin Antoine Dodson, star of a viral Internet song warning neighbors to watch out for a sexual predator, was arrested and charged with marijuana possession after being stopped for speeding, police said on Saturday.

Amazon still trying to fix computer problems (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 02:47 PM PDT

AP - Amazon.com is still trying to restore computers used by other websites as an outage stretched into a third day.

PlayStation Network Enters Third Day of Outage (PC World)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 10:04 AM PDT

PC World - An unexplained outage of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services entered its third day Saturday, with no clear details on when the service might be up and running again.

T-Mobile debuts two new Android devices: LG G2x and Samsung Sidekick 4G (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 07:30 AM PDT

Appolicious - T-Mobile is in full-swing, as they recently launched two new Android smartphones, the LG G2x and the Samsung Sidekick 4G as well as a tablet, the LG-Slate.

Best Celebrity Twitter Pictures (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 06:16 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - Ellen DeGeneres prepares for the royal wedding, the Glee cast heads to Coachella, and Jennifer Hudson bonds with drag queens. See the stars’ Twitter photos!

What Would it Take to Get You to Switch to an iPhone? (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 09:06 AM PDT

ContributorNetwork - That's what Business Insider asked, in its "The Truth About Smartphones" survey. It also asked what'd get you to switch to another kind of phone, although it lumped Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 together.

Google Offers Easier Way to Transfer Video From Google Video to YouTube (Mashable)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 06:56 AM PDT

Mashable - Google's listening. After notifying the world last week that Google Video was shutting down with no videos viewable after April 29, and giving users until May 13 to download them before they would be removed, Google's backed away from that.

Visualizing what the iPhone 5 will look like (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 06:16 AM PDT

Appolicious - While it is likely that the iPhone 5 won't be coming out until this September, we are already in the peak of season as far as rumors of how the device will perform and what it will look like.

By the numbers: The present and future of the mobile app industry (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 06:00 AM PDT

Appolicious - As anyone with BlackBerry thumb can testify, the smartphone addiction sweeping the nation has less to do with the phone aspect of our cellular devices and more to do with the smart part, meaning primarily the 5 billion apps downloaded just last year that consumed 667 minutes of the average smartphone user's time per month.

Ex-Sony chief, 'father of the CD', dies (AFP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 07:05 PM PDT

Former Sony president Norio Ohga (pictured in 2002), who helped transform the music industry with the development of the compact disc format, has died at the age of 81, the company said. The music school graduate served as president from 1982 to 1995 and led the electronics manufacturer to become an entertainment empire with a portfolio encompassing music, movies and computer games.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - Former Sony president Norio Ohga, who helped transform the music industry with the development of the compact disc format, has died at the age of 81, the company said.

Mac vs. PC: Stereotypes Confirmed (PC World)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 01:48 PM PDT

PC World - It's unscientifically official. PC users are more lame than their Mac-using counterparts.

Despite Improvements, Data in the Cloud Remains Dirty (PC World)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 10:00 AM PDT

PC World - Few parts of our lives remain untouched by software in the cloud. From connecting with friends on Facebook to organizing your finances on Mint, these tools are becoming increasingly embedded into our professional and personal lives.
Posted by Harshad at 9:18 PM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)