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This morning, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia issued its highly anticipated ruling in a hotly contested cell phone location privacy case. EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief and participated at oral argument in the case...
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But for three times as many people, the lack of a Verizon iPhone is a bigger problem
Credit: AP Photo/Paul Sakuma
The iPhone 4's widely publicized antenna problems cost Apple ( AAPL ) some sales this summer, but not nearly as many as its...
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A federal appeals court said Tuesday the government may obtain cell-site information that mobile phone carriers retain on their customers without a probable-cause warrant under the Fourth Amendment.
The decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court o...
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Apple is losing iPhone 4 sales to Antennagate , according to a survey conducted by Piper Jaffray.
Piper surveyed 258 cell phone owners in the Minneapolis area to determine the effect of the iPhone 4 antenna controversy .
Of the people that ...
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BT Fon app allows Total Broadband customers with an iPhone or Android phone to connect to the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot for free BT has launched a mobile app for broadband customers that automatically connects their iPhone and Android mobiles to fre...
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I just hot hit up by a top-notch tipster that T-Mobile’s G2 is headed to consumers for pre-sale later this month . The handset, powered by stock Android 2.2 and a Snapdragon MSM7230 CPU clocked at exactly 800Mhz, has a 3.7-inch screen, s...
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In a precedent-setting decision, a federal appellate court this week ruled that judges have the option of asking prosecutors to obtain a warrant before they are allowed to access to an persons cell phone location data.
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AP Obama and Emanuel walk on the South Lawn before the president's flight to Chicago, Aug. 4, 2010. Will Rahm Emanuel run for Chicago mayor?... The timing for a key staff departure -- right now -- isn’t ideal for the White House&hellip...
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By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
Today, IDC raised its forecast for 2010 global smartphone shipments. Is it any wonder? "Hot" defines an exciting summer of new models, including iPhone 4 and scads of big-screen Android smartphones. Meanwhile, Nokia is ...
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John Yates and Theresa May made detailed comments on the phone-hacking affair. Nick Davies analyses them Statements by John Yates Asked if there would be another investigation: "We have always said that if any new material, new evidence, w...
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Pamela Anderson will be filming a sex scene with a total stranger. Sure, why not. Nothing odd there. Oh, and it’s for some competition (that I don’t care about enough to mention in detail) and the person will be filmin...
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It’s no surprise to say technology has completely changed the way we, as a society, come together . From Twitter to Foursquare , J-Date to Match.com , gone are the days of quainter communication. Forget about lying in bed twirling the phone...
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Ever since shortly after Facebook launched its check-in feature, Facebook Places , last month, the site has been plagued by a rumor that if users log-in to Facebook from their mobile phone, other users will be able to track their exact location...
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Rumors indicate that Apple has already begun designing the next-generation iPhone, which I’ll call iPhone 5 from here on. This, of course, makes sense, as the average time from the start of the design process to market in the mobile phone busi...
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Some friends and I started talking about creating an "internet company" in 1999. We considered social bookmarking and consumer reviews but finally launched a social blogging network called Xanga in 2000. Back then, I didn't have a mobile phone. ...
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If you're a fan of the hit TV series NCIS, developer GameHouse has made sure you can take the thrill and intrigue of the show with you anywhere you go with the new NCIS Mobile Game , available for iOS devices like the iPhone, iPad, and iP...
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AP Can Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party stake a comeback? New NBC/WSJ poll shows GOP with nine-point lead (49%-40%) among likely voters, but it’s tied among registered voters (43%-43%)… How Democra...
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If you're a typical wired American, you've got a bunch of tech tools you like and a bunch more you covet. You have a cell phone that can easily text. You've got a laptop configured just the way you want it. Maybe you have a Kindle for reading, or an...
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Advertisers have long talked about the mystical possibilities of using real-time location data to target customers. The technology existed; most cell phones have a GPS receiver in case of emergency. But real-time location data was off-limits to adv...
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Martyn Williams / PC World :
Freed Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access — A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday.
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