Friday, 22 April 2011

Water dragon

How to add a second layer of encryption to Dropbox

Greenpeace ranks data centers, names Yahoo cleanest & Apple the dirtiest

They're all doing it! (video)

It's not just Apple tracking phone users. Microsoft, Google & RIM are doing it too. 

Your hands give away your hotness

Jailbreak app stops iPhone track-tracking in its tracks

Tit-for-tat – Samsung responds to Apple with multiple patent suits

Let your iPhone help you find an iPad 2

The iPhone tracking fiasco and what you can do about it

This was previously mentioned in these pages.  More at: 

http://m.engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/21/the-iphone-tracking-fiasco-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/&category=classic&subCategory=featured&icid=eng_featured_art&type=&postPage=

One more reason to jailbreak.

The item below, while excusing Apple at length, ignores two important points:
  1.  In many jurisdictions, clicking on an "Agree" button when installing software does not constitute agreement.  This recognises the fact that no one stops to read long legalese documents in the middle of a software installation.
  2. Most commentators, including HHG2Tech, are less concerned about what Apple might do with this data, but what a thief might do with it.
http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/04/21/iphone-data-collection-explained/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+loopinsight/KqJb+(The+Loop)#dsq-add-new-comment