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The Cloud Has Us All In A Fog - 1er mai 2011
Ever heard of Dropship ? It’s an open-source project that "enables arbitrary, anonymous transfers of files between Dropbox accounts." Dropbox hopes you haven’t ; they tried to squelch it this week, and even accidentally reported that it was subject to a DMCA takedown notice, with predictably futile results. I’m (...)
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Apple location row exposes smartphones as double agents - 1er mai 2011
Smartphone makers are presenting users with a dilemma over privacy and location services.
According to Steve Jobs, Apple’s mercurial chief executive, the controversy of the last two weeks over the way the iPhone has been quietly logging users’ movements was the result of a software "bug" and public (...)
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Android Phone Users Sue Google Over Alleged Tracking of Their Movements - 29 avril 2011
Two Android phone users sued Google Inc. (GOOG) over claims their phones secretly recorded and stored data about their movements.
The two residents of Oakland County in Michigan said in a complaint filed April 27 in federal court in Detroit that their HTC Inspire 4G phones, which use Google’s Android Operating (...)
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Google poursuivi pour ne pas avoir empêché le traçage des mobiles Android - 29 avril 2011
Deux Américaines ont entamé une action en justice contre Google. Elles réclament 50 millions de dollars de dommages et intérêts et, accessoirement, l’arrêt du suivi de localisation réalisé à travers les smartphones Android. De son côté, l’entreprise californienne a indiqué plus tôt cette semaine que les données sont (...)
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Apple and Google Use Phone Data to Map the World - 26 avril 2011
You may not know it, but if you carry a smartphone in your pocket, you are probably doing unpaid work for Apple or Google "” and helping them eventually aim more advertising directly at you.
As those two companies battle for dominance in mobile computing, they have increasingly been using their customers’ phones as (...)
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Steve Jobs assure qu’Apple ne piste personne avec l’iPhone - 26 avril 2011
La polémique sur le traçage des utilisateurs prend une nouvelle dimension avec l’intervention du PDG d’Apple. Dans une réponse adressée à un client, Steve Jobs assure que son entreprise ne piste personne et a rappelé en filigrane que la concurrence enregistre aussi des informations géolocalisées.
Tout comme avec (...)
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Google : Of Course Our Location-based Services Require Your Location Info - 26 avril 2011
Google responded to concerns over how its Android operating system uses location information by noting that data is essential to certain services, such as customized mapping and providing information on nearby services.
Both mapping and search, for example, use location information to provide results tailored to (...)
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Google nuance le traçage des smartphones Android - 26 avril 2011
Dans un commentaire diffusé en fin de semaine dernière, Google a rappelé que le traçage des smartphones Android ne se fait uniquement qu’à la suite de l’accord donné par l’utilisateur lors de la configuration de l’appareil (opt-in). Le géant américain précise dans le même temps que les données de géolocalisation sont (...)
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Exclusive : Apple to beat Google on cloud music : sources - 25 avril 2011
Apple Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc, whose own music efforts have stalled, according to several people familiar with both companies’ plans.
Apple’s plans will allow iTunes customers to store their songs on a remote server, and then access them (...)
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La musique en ligne, nouveau champ de bataille entre Apple et Google - 25 avril 2011
La bataille de la musique sur Internet se jouera aussi dans le "nuage". Selon l’agence de presse Reuters, Apple, Google, mais aussi Amazon, veulent tour à tour proposer des services musicaux dans le cloud, permettant d’accéder à ses morceaux musicaux depuis n’importe quel appareil connecté à Internet.
Apple, concepteur (...)
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The Really Smart Phone - 24 avril 2011
Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease"”even our political views.
Apple and Google may be intensifying privacy concerns by tracking where and when people use their mobile phones"”but the true future (...)
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Google fined $5m over Linux patent row - 24 avril 2011
A judgement by a Texas jury against Google could have major implications for the search giant and the open source world said experts.
The internet titan was found guilty of infringing a patent related to the Linux kernel and fined $5m (£3.2m).
The software is used by Google for its server platforms and could also (...)
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iPhones and Android phones building vast databases for Google and Apple - 24 avril 2011
Italy, France and Germany to investigate smartphone tracking software amid privacy concerns
Apple and Google are using smartphones running their software to build gigantic databases for location-based services, according to new research following the Guardian’s revelations that iPhones and devices running Android (...)
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Google Defends Way It Gets Phone Data - 24 avril 2011
Amid rising scrutiny of their practices, Google Inc. defended the way it collects location data from Android phones, while Apple Inc. remained silent for a third day.
The companies’ smartphones regularly transmit locations back to Google and Apple servers, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by (...)
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Google Is Said to Test Mobile-Payment System With VeriFone - 24 avril 2011
Google Inc. (GOOG) plans to start testing a mobile-payment service at stores in New York and San Francisco within four months, letting shoppers use their phones to ring up purchases, three people familiar with the project said.
The company will pay to install thousands of special cash- register systems from (...)
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Apple, Google Collect User Data - 22 avril 2011
Apple Inc.’s iPhones and Google Inc.’s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal"”intensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in personal data.
Google and Apple are gathering (...)
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Android phones record user-locations according to research - 22 avril 2011
Discovery comes as a senator has written to Apple demanding to know why iPhones keep a secret file of users’ movements
Smartphones running Google’s Android software collect data about the user’s movements in almost exactly the same way as the iPhone, according to an examination of files they contain. The discovery, (...)
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Les téléphones équipés d’Android traquent aussi leurs utilisateurs - 22 avril 2011
Les téléphones équipés du système d’exploitation Android de Google gardent la trace des déplacements de leurs utilisateurs, tout comme l’iPhone d’Apple, affirment les quotidiens Wall Street Journal (WSJ) et The Guardian dans leur édition du vendredi 22 avril.
Les deux journaux expliquent avoir obtenu cette information (...)
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Google faces S Korea antitrust complaint - 16 avril 2011
South Korea’s top internet providers have launched an antitrust complaint against Google, alleging that the US group is stifling competition in the domestic mobile search market.
NHN, which runs Naver, the country’s leading search engine, and Daum Communications filed a petition with the country’s Fair Trade (...)
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Google mobilise 900 millions de dollars pour acheter des milliers de brevets - 6 avril 2011
Face à des géants de l’industrie high-tech, Google a choisi de sortir le chéquier. Le géant américain de la recherche a proposé de racheter les brevets détenus par l’entreprise canadienne Nortel pour 900 millions de dollars. Cette acquisition, si elle se concrétise, vise à préserver Google d’une éventuelle plainte pour (...)
