Brian X. Chen / Bits: AT&T Says Throttling Policy Isn't as Bad as You Think — Last year, AT&T warned smartphone customers with unlimited data plans that it may temporarily reduce their Internet connection speeds if they were in the “top 5 percent” of heaviest data users. Only recently have some customers begun …
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AT&T Says Throttling Policy Isn't as Bad as You Think (Brian X. Chen/Bits)
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What’s the future of virtual sex?
Holy Kaw!9 Feb 2012 | 10:48 amComputer scientists are seeking to transmit sense data across the Internet and enable interactions with virtual entities and environments. They're steering us toward a reality previously only dreamt of: sexual congress between the material and immaterial worlds. The future is bright for virtual sexuality. After all, we're human beings. Think of any great artistic or technological achievement and chances are it winds up in the bedroom. Will it end up in yours? Full article at HowStuffWorks.com. Total aggregation of HowStuffWorks.com. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a… -
6 Powerful Guest Post Tactics that No One’s Talking About
@ProBlogger9 Feb 2012 | 6:05 amThis guest post is by Tom Ewer of Leaving Work Behind. Guest posting is a hot topic amongst startup bloggers. It is one of the most widely-adopted blog promotion strategies in existence, and has been made perhaps even more popular by the success of “serial” guest posters such as Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. His “blitzkrieg” strategy may come across to some as a triumph of quantity over strategy, but nothing could be further from the truth. He understands the key concepts that we will be exploring in this post, and executes them in a highly effective manner. Whilst… -
Inaccurate labels and why we need them (and need to improve them)
Seth's Blog9 Feb 2012 | 2:46 amIf I tell you, "I'm going to the baseball game," it seems as though you're likely to understand what I mean. Of course, you won't. When George Will goes to a baseball game, it's a religious experience. Me, I don't even like baseball. Or maybe it's my nephew's ball game (the playoffs), or maybe going to the game causes me to miss an important event, and on and on. We label the experience with just two words, and two words can't possibly capture the emotions and circumstance surrounding an event. The same thing is true with brands. If I tell you that a new business was funded by USV, that might… -
Goodbye Kodak, Hello FujiFilm
IT Project Failures Blog RSS | ZDNet25 Jan 2012 | 5:15 pmI originally wrote this as a guest post on Vinnie Mirchandani’s blog, called New Florence. New Renaissance, which discusses innovation and technology. You can also see a gallery of other photos.————–After 131 years great American photographic icon, Eastman Kodak, filed for bankruptcy. Some might say that Kodak never made a successful transition from traditional film to digital cameras, but that’s not exactly correct, because American inventor, Steven Sasson, created the first digital camera for Kodak. I think the Economist put it more accurately,…
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AT&T Says Throttling Policy Isn't as Bad as You Think (Brian X. Chen/Bits)
9 Feb 2012 | 9:55 amBrian X. Chen / Bits: AT&T Says Throttling Policy Isn't as Bad as You Think — Last year, AT&T warned smartphone customers with unlimited data plans that it may temporarily reduce their Internet connection speeds if they were in the “top 5 percent” of heaviest data users. Only recently have some customers begun … -
Appcelerator Acquires Mobile Cloud Services Startup Cocoafish (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
9 Feb 2012 | 9:40 amSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appcelerator Acquires Mobile Cloud Services Startup Cocoafish — Appcelerator, the company behind the popular Titanium app-building platform, is announcing its third acquisition today. The company is buying Cocoafish, a mobile app infrastructure provider that lets developers add various features … -
Facebook Courts Start-Up Investors With fbStart Program (Wall Street Journal)
9 Feb 2012 | 9:30 amWall Street Journal: Facebook Courts Start-Up Investors With fbStart Program — Facebook Inc., with an eye toward future business relationships, wants to be friends with more social-media start-ups. — So it is going after those start-ups' investors. — Facebook's new fbStart program is open … -
Glam Media launches social network for food lovers (Alexei Oreskovic/Reuters)
9 Feb 2012 | 9:20 amAlexei Oreskovic / Reuters: Glam Media launches social network for food lovers — (Reuters) - There are magazines, television shows and books about food. So why not a social network? — That's the thinking behind online lifestyle publisher Glam Media's newest offering. On Thursday, the company launched Foodie.com … -
Report: How Americans are Spending their Media Time... and Money (Nielsen Wire)
9 Feb 2012 | 9:10 amNielsen Wire: Report: How Americans are Spending their Media Time... and Money — Americans spend more than 33 hours per week watching video across the screens, according to the latest Nielsen Cross-Platform Report. But how they're consuming content—traditional TV and otherwise—is changing.
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What’s the future of virtual sex?
9 Feb 2012 | 10:48 amComputer scientists are seeking to transmit sense data across the Internet and enable interactions with virtual entities and environments. They're steering us toward a reality previously only dreamt of: sexual congress between the material and immaterial worlds. The future is bright for virtual sexuality. After all, we're human beings. Think of any great artistic or technological achievement and chances are it winds up in the bedroom. Will it end up in yours? Full article at HowStuffWorks.com. Total aggregation of HowStuffWorks.com. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a… -
5 tiny countries with big space dreams
9 Feb 2012 | 10:46 amYou don't have to be a global giant to reach for the stars or to benefit from the pecuniary promise of space-age technologies. Thanks to the growing availability of public and private launch vehicles, "off-the-shelf" tech for kitting out satellites and serious opportunities for research collaboration, even the smallest nations on Earth can dream big. Which little countries have big space dreams? Lithuania Belgium Israel Full list at HowStuffWorks.com. Total aggregation of HowStuffWorks.com. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a comment » -
Top 5 unforgettable memory games
9 Feb 2012 | 10:43 amIt's often said that the brain is like a muscle: You have to exercise it to make it stronger. What you may never have thought about is the way many of our leisure activities -- games, both competitive and solitary -- also contribute to firming up those mental muscles. Let's talk about a few different kinds of memory -- and the games that test, stretch and improve them: Concentration: The way we play Concentration -- turning up cards, looking at them, and turning them facedown again -- strengthens our memory throughout the game the same way that studying with flashcards does. Facial… -
5 tips for getting organized at work
9 Feb 2012 | 10:39 amStarting a new job is one of the more stressful life events. From learning a new commute to mastering different skill-sets (not to mention trying to figure out if your boss finds your sense of humor refreshing or revolting), it's difficult to develop an organizational system from the ground up. In the next few pages, we'll scope out ways that you can get your space and yourself organized for optimal working conditions. From cleaning up to calming down, we'll dispel some rumors about how handling multiple tasks at a time is better than one -- and explain why a messy workspace doesn't always… -
Oh, Internet: A love song [video]
9 Feb 2012 | 10:37 amHannah Hart of My Drunk Kitchen fame puts down the booze and spatula to sing a love song dedicated to the internet. Vocal chops and pork chops? What a talented gal. The internet loves videos. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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6 Powerful Guest Post Tactics that No One’s Talking About
9 Feb 2012 | 6:05 amThis guest post is by Tom Ewer of Leaving Work Behind. Guest posting is a hot topic amongst startup bloggers. It is one of the most widely-adopted blog promotion strategies in existence, and has been made perhaps even more popular by the success of “serial” guest posters such as Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. His “blitzkrieg” strategy may come across to some as a triumph of quantity over strategy, but nothing could be further from the truth. He understands the key concepts that we will be exploring in this post, and executes them in a highly effective manner. Whilst… -
How to Succinctly Report a Blog Issue to Tech Support
8 Feb 2012 | 6:07 amThis guest post is by Matthew Setter of Malt Blue. How often do you find it happening to you? You discover an issue with your site, or one of your community members emails you to tell you about it, and soon you start to see tweets about it too. Maybe it’s as simple as an error message that detracts from the professional appearance of your site. Perhaps the contact form doesn’t send messages to your contact email address. Or is it that the whole site just displays as a blank page, otherwise known as the white page of death? You’re not a programmer, a software engineer or a seasoned… -
Make Your Blog Load Faster than ProBlogger: Part 2
7 Feb 2012 | 12:05 pmThis guest post is by Devesh of WP Kube. A few months ago, I wrote a guest post here called How to Make Your Blog Load Faster than ProBlogger. Today, I’ll go into some more detailed advice to help you speed up your site even more. If you’re a blogger, you already know about the importance of blog loading speed, and the role it plays in search engine rank and marketing your blog. But if this is new territory for you, here are three quick reasons why you need to speed up your blog: Google includes website loading speed as an important metric in their ranking algorithm. If you want… -
How I Beat my Best Month Ever by Doing Something Good, Better [Case Study]
7 Feb 2012 | 6:04 amMid-December 2010: on my photography site, we launched a new campaign—our first ever 12 Days of Christmas promotion. The result was my biggest month of earnings ever up to that point. The idea was simple: offer discounts on 12 products over the 12 days leading up to Christmas. I used a mix of my own ebooks and products from other photography sites with affiliate commissions. The result was massive. Not only did we see some great revenue generated, it created some lovely buzz on the site. Due to the success of the 2010 campaign, in mid-December 2011 we launched our second 12 Days of… -
Six Steps to Make Sure Your Site Is Ready to Go Viral
6 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amThis guest post is by Nancy Sathre-Vogel of Family on Bikes. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Surely Google Analytics was confusing my site with another, way more popular site. There was no way my visitor numbers could be so high! And yet they were. One of my posts had taken off and was spreading like wildfire. Those viral post phenomena that happen to others were now happening to me. The first day, 17,000 visitors came to my website. The next day we topped out at 56,000. Readers were coming in droves. It was exciting. It was exhilarating. My site, viral! Wow! And then I took a…
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Inaccurate labels and why we need them (and need to improve them)
9 Feb 2012 | 2:46 amIf I tell you, "I'm going to the baseball game," it seems as though you're likely to understand what I mean. Of course, you won't. When George Will goes to a baseball game, it's a religious experience. Me, I don't even like baseball. Or maybe it's my nephew's ball game (the playoffs), or maybe going to the game causes me to miss an important event, and on and on. We label the experience with just two words, and two words can't possibly capture the emotions and circumstance surrounding an event. The same thing is true with brands. If I tell you that a new business was funded by USV, that might… -
How do they know you're not a flake?
8 Feb 2012 | 2:43 amBefore your link gets clicked or your proposal gets read, a busy person is going to triage it to find out if it's even worth glancing at. Since everyone is now connected, the new permeability has created a deluge of noise, and just about everyone worth contacting is taking defensive measures. Do I know this person? Did someone I trust send them over? Where does she work? (Ideo? the FDA? The New York Times?) Has she won an award? Is she famous? Are there typos and is the design sloppy? Are they pestering me? Do I already follow this person online? Does music play when I visit the website? Will… -
Horizontal marketing isn't a new idea
7 Feb 2012 | 2:09 amBut it is the new reality for just about every organization. Vertical marketing means the marketer (the one with money) is in charge. Vertical marketing starts at the top and involves running ads, sending out direct mail and pushing hype through the media. Your money, your plans, your control. It might not work, but generally the worst outcome is that you will be ignored and need to spend more money. Horizonal marketing, on the other hand, means creating a remarkable product and story and setting it up to spread from person to person. It's out of your control, because all the interactions are… -
Who is your customer?
6 Feb 2012 | 2:26 amRule one: You can build a business on the foundation of great customer service. Rule two: The only way to do great customer service is to treat different customers differently. The question: Who is your customer? It's not obvious. Zappos is a classic customer service company, and their customer is the person who buys the shoes. Nike, on the other hand, doesn't care very much at all about the people who buy the shoes, or even the retailers. They care about the athletes (often famous) that wear the shoes, sometimes for money. They name buildings after these athletes, court them, erect… -
In search of a timid trapeze artist
5 Feb 2012 | 2:01 amGood luck with that, there aren't any. If you hesitate when leaping from rope to another, you're not going to last very long. And this is at the heart of what makes innovation work in organizations, why industries die, and how painful it is to try to maintain the status quo while also participating in a revolution. Gather up as much speed as you can, find a path and let go. You can't get to the next rope if you're still holding on to this one.
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Goodbye Kodak, Hello FujiFilm
25 Jan 2012 | 5:15 pmI originally wrote this as a guest post on Vinnie Mirchandani’s blog, called New Florence. New Renaissance, which discusses innovation and technology. You can also see a gallery of other photos.————–After 131 years great American photographic icon, Eastman Kodak, filed for bankruptcy. Some might say that Kodak never made a successful transition from traditional film to digital cameras, but that’s not exactly correct, because American inventor, Steven Sasson, created the first digital camera for Kodak. I think the Economist put it more accurately,… -
CIO view: Three truths that bridge the great divide
20 Jan 2012 | 5:26 amPhoto credit: "Conversations in Silos" by Michael KrigsmanUpdate 1/20/12: Thanks to Carlos Francavilla for translating this post into Spanish!!This post summarizes my remarks to a group of senior government leaders embarking on an innovative and ambitious plan to improve health care delivery in their state. A key issue is fostering communication and collaboration between business stakeholders and IT.Statistics tell us that almost 70 percent of IT projects are late, over-budget, or fail to deliver expected value (the worst fate of all). Numbers like these make clear there is a… -
A brief gadget detour
16 Jan 2012 | 7:37 amAlthough not in Las Vegas, I closely followed the mirrorless camera announcements at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show. Over at ZDNet’s flagship blog, Between the Lines, I wrote up some thoughts you might enjoy reading.Just for fun, here’s a video clip of a news interview I recorded, talking about the latest cool technology and even discussing whether Microsoft is relevant in today’s world: -
Cotton candy and little enterprise deceptions
3 Jan 2012 | 7:19 amCotton candy photo by Michael KrigsmanWhile browsing the instruction manual for a professional cotton candy (PDF download) machine, the following phrase jumped off the page (emphasis added):Many experienced operators prefer to lift the ring out of the pan and, with a flick of the wrist, turn the ring into a figure eight and whip it around the cone. This leaves giant air pockets and makes it appear that you are serving a larger portion.Of course, sales people want to minimize weaknesses in their product or service offerings, so this kind of presentation happens all the time in every sphere of… -
Predicting 2012: Rapid implementation in focus
30 Dec 2011 | 6:05 amThe world of IT failure is bizarre. Despite outrageous statistics that affect virtually every major enterprise software vendor and customer, from ERP to CRM and beyond, mere mention of the topic terrifies many in the industry. As a result, IT failures have become an accepted, almost expected, part of enterprise life. The time for this unfortunate situation to change is long overdue.IT failures arise from a confluence of factors such as misunderstanding technology, poor judgment, lousy project management, politics, conflicts of interest among the Devil’s Triangle, to name just a few.
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IBM Aims To Be First With OpenSocial Embedded Apps
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2012 State Of Databases: Pricey And In Flux
16 Jan 2012 | 5:00 amOur 760 respondents have gripes about licensing costs and more. Big data is big trouble, cloud is a no-go, and security's stuck in a rut. What now? -
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Data Mine This: Government Challenges Scientists
11 Jan 2012 | 11:10 amFederal standards organization NIST seeks participants for upcoming conference that will focus on search techniques for large, challenging data collections. -
Virtualization Tops CIO Priorities In 2012: IDC
11 Jan 2012 | 7:32 amSavings from server consolidation will go to new IT innovations, IDC says.
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Video Interview: 2012 Predictions
6 Feb 2012 | 9:25 amI have shared my top 10 predictions for 2012 in my previous blog posts, but in case you missed it or want a quick review you can access my video interview on the key challenges that the industry will face this year, available here: -
Capacity Efficiencies: Allocation vs Utilization
3 Feb 2012 | 10:13 amAs noted in previous posts, capacity efficiency has two dimensions: allocation efficiency and utilization efficiency. Allocation Efficiency Allocation efficiency is what most people think of first: eliminating the waste of over-allocation. In open systems this has been a major problem since we may not know ahead of time how much capacity an application requires, but we don’t want to run out of capacity and we know the operational difficulties of expanding it. So, the usual practice is to over-allocate by a wide margin. After all, disk is cheap, isn’t it? The problem with over-allocation… -
Storage Efficiencies Redefined
1 Feb 2012 | 1:25 pmIf you Google storage efficiencies, eventually you will get a Wikipedia definition, which describes storage efficiency as “the ability to store and manage data that consumes the least amount of space with little or no impact on performance, resulting in a lower total operational cost.” Wikipedia also references the SNIA definition, which notes: storage efficiency = (effective capacity + free capacity)/raw capacity However, as I noted in my last post, the definition of storage efficiency has expanded beyond capacity. Since that last post on storage efficiency being more than capacity, I… -
More to Storage Efficiency than Capacity
27 Jan 2012 | 10:45 amIn response to my last blog, Jon Toigo was kind enough to post a training piece that he wrote last year, reminding us that capacity is only one part of storage efficiency. In addition to capacity allocation efficiency, which most of us are addressing with thin provisioning, Jon points out the need for capacity utilization efficiency, storage performance efficiency, data protection efficiency, and storage energy efficiency. Expanding on his thoughts, I have added storage management efficiency. Capacity utilization efficiency is about the placement of data on the appropriate tier of storage,… -
Storage Efficiency: Switch It On III
26 Jan 2012 | 12:46 pmThe greatest tool for storage efficiency is storage virtualization, which enables the extension of other storage efficiency tools like tiering and thin provisioning to existing storage systems that do not have that capability. It also reduces operational costs by providing a common pool of dynamic shared resources under a common set of management tools. In view of Gartner’s recent prediction of a 5% to 20% increase in disk prices and shortages due to last year’s floods in Thailand, Hitachi Data Systems will extend and enhance the Switch It On III promotion that reduces the cost of…
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Project Management Lite: Estimating–Specify Deliverables
8 Feb 2012 | 3:10 pmIn order to prepare an estimate, the specifications for what must be produced by the project must be specific, unambiguous and quantitative. This requires the estimator to work out as much detail of the conceptual solution as is feasible, consistent ... -
APAR Friday: Sparse index potential performance degradation
8 Feb 2012 | 10:21 am(Posted February 8, 2012) Are you using or are you considering using sparse index scan? If yes, then you may want to keep this HIPER on your radar: APAR PM49154. It seems that during sorted work file scan, and I quote, “the new predicate evaluation mechanism took ... -
Project Management Lite: Estimating–Establishing Objectives
7 Feb 2012 | 2:38 pmSystems cost estimation is essentially a project in itself and should be planned, reviewed and executed as such. This section describes the SILC approach to an estimating project. The activities described should be performed regardless of the estimat... -
A new DB2 clock has started: End of Service for DB2 9
7 Feb 2012 | 8:18 am(Posted February 7, 2012) That’s right. If you’ve been keeping score you know that we had already announced End of Marketing (EoM) for DB2 9 last year. That happens on December 10, 2012. When I discussed that date in this blog I did mention that ... -
The question: Would You Like More WLM Information In DB2 Accounting Trace
6 Feb 2012 | 7:47 pm(Posted February 7, 2012) That’s the question. However, it’s not my question. It’s the question that a friend of mine, Martin Packer, put to his readers in his blog today. It’s a legitimate question and its a question of interest to me as well. In Martins blog...
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Glancee: A Nice-Guy Ambient Social Location App For Normal People
9 Feb 2012 | 10:44 amSome of us can’t be bothered to check in, but still want to find interesting people nearby. The challenge for developers is how to do this in a way that is both useful and not creepy. Glancee, available for both iOS and Android, gets closer to solving these problems than most I’ve seen. The app lets you sign in with Facebook, then it shows you people within 100 yards, or one, two, or ten miles who have things in common. In some ways this sounds similar another app I recently covered, Highlight — but there are key differences, that will make each app appeal to different sets… -
Pixloo Helps You Sell Your Home With Free Virtual Tours, Exports To Zillow, Trulia & More
9 Feb 2012 | 10:28 amIn December, Eric covered Open Home Pro, a startup that lets realtors sell homes via their iPads. Today, there comes a similar effort from Pixloo, except this service is designed for use by anyone – realtors and homeowners alike. With Pixloo, you can upload information about your home, including text, photos and even videos and then immediately export that data to major real estate sites including Trulia, Zillow, Realtor.com and others, all for free. OK, technically, Pixloo is freemium. The pricing tiers depend on whether you need one virtual tour, the number of exports per tour and… -
Avast, Me Hearties: How The Pirate Bay Changed The Way We Steal
9 Feb 2012 | 9:41 amThe Pirate Bay, in many ways, is disappearing. It is one of the most popular torrent sites on the web and its database of millions of torrent files – essentially pointers to pieces of files hosted elsewhere – has long been the go-to spot for budding pirates around the world. While it still exists in spirit, the admins are now moving all of the torrent files off the site and are instead offering magnet links. This is an important distinction that will move the locus of general piracy from a single site to any number of sites, reducing the Pirate Bays importance as a source. First,… -
Cinemagram Turns iPhone Photos Into Animated Gifs In Seconds
9 Feb 2012 | 9:07 amRemember when the iPhone app GLMPS launched last summer, seemingly heralding the start of a new image format that blended static photos and video? No? That’s OK. Today, there’s a new twist on the idea of reinventing the mobile photo, this time by turning static photos into animated ones. With the newly launched app called Cinemagram, you can turn your iPhone pics into animated gifs in a matter of seconds. Cinemagram isn’t quite the same as GLMPS, to be clear. “The GLMPS app embedded an entire video as a picture-in-picture onto the image,” explains… -
Google, Microsoft Search Queries Grow In January While Yahoo Continues To Slide
9 Feb 2012 | 8:56 amcomScore has released its ‘explicit’ U.S. search data for January of this year and while Google and Microsoft Bring’s search share continues to grow, Yahoo’s share dropped both year over year and month over month. This comes after Bing overtook Yahoo in terms of search queries for the first time in December. While Bing grew slightly from December 2011 to January, Google reached its highest share since December 2010 this past month. Google search queries increased 6% year over year in January, to 66.2%, compared with 65.9% in December 2011 and 65.6% in January 2011.
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Clint Eastwood to Critics of Chrysler Commercial: Get Off My Lawn
8 Feb 2012 | 11:45 amThe best part came when Eastwood himself reached out to O'Reilly Factor producer Ron Mitchell to defuse the conspiracy theories, hype, conjecture, invective and the rest of it: -
Infographic: I Won it on eBay
8 Feb 2012 | 12:56 pmWe couldn’t help taking a deep dive into Hunch data to see what the differences are between people who have bought or sold on eBay, and those who haven’t yet. -
Holder tells Congress the Obama administration wants to ban guns
8 Feb 2012 | 9:05 amHolder’s shallow and illogical attempt to use “Fast and Furious” to further the Obama gun-ban agenda ... Eric Holder’s Justice Department — oversaw an epic scandal whereby our own federal government illegally funneled thousands of firearms into the hands of Mexican drug lords. This contributed to the death of one U.S. Border Patrol agent and hundreds of Mexicans. ... Eric Holder claims he doesn’t know how or why this scandal occurred, or even who under his charge may have authorized it... He also refuses to turn over critical documents to congressional investigators that could h -
RIAA: “Misinformation May Be a Dirty Trick, But It Works.”
8 Feb 2012 | 8:10 pmFor years the RIAA has tried to convince the world that piracy is killing musicians. Supported by bogus statistics and mistruths, they lobby politicians to pass draconian anti-piracy laws including SOPA and PIPA. Until a few weeks ago the music group thought it had Congress it its pockets. But this changed when the Internet started [...] -
Find Out Here What Popular iPhone/Android Apps Know/Transmit About You
8 Feb 2012 | 10:10 pmMarketers are tracking smartphone users through "apps" - games and other software on their phones. Some apps collect information including location, unique serial-number-like identifiers for the phone, and personal details such as age and sex.
