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Mobile Apps Take Data Without Permission - 6 mars 2012
The address book in smartphones "” where some of the user’s most personal data is carried "” is free for app developers to take at will, often without the phone owner’s knowledge.
Companies that make many of the most popular smartphone apps for Apple and Android devices "” Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram among them (...)
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Android ’free’ apps pass user data to advertisers, study finds - 5 mars 2012
Research finds UK users’ data is passed to US network "“ potentaily breaching European data protection laws
Advertising networks used by apps in Android devices can get access to user information, according to an investigation by a UK information security company.
MWR Infosecurity found that a significant number (...)
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Google ’sneaking away citizens’ privacy’ says EU commissioner - 2 mars 2012
Google is "sneaking" citizens’ privacy away with its new policies and appears to be ignoring data protection treaties, the European commissioner of justice has said.
Viviane Reding delivered a stinging rebuke to Google over changes to its privacy policy, saying she had doubt over whether it was legal.
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Google Android users ’must accept new privacy policy’ - 1er mars 2012
Millions of Britons who use Google smartphones are unable to avoid radical and "invasive" changes to the firm’s privacy policy, it has emerged.
The news has prompted a privacy campaigner to sue for the £400 cost of his device. Alex Hanff, from Lancaster, has filed a test claim at the small claims court in the hope (...)
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Google Softens Tone on China - 12 janvier 2012
Two Years After Censorship Clash, Company Renews Push to Expand in World’s Biggest Internet Market
Google Inc., which pulled its Web-search engine out of mainland China two years ago after a confrontation with Chinese authorities over censorship, has renewed its push to expand there, in an acknowledgment that it (...)
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BT sues Google over Android - 19 décembre 2011
British Telecom claims Google’s Android mobile operating system infringes a number of the company’s patents
British Telecom is claiming billions of dollars of damages from Google in a lawsuit filed in the US which says that the Android mobile operating system infringes a number of the telecoms company’s key (...)
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Steve Jobs : des choix technologiques qui ont fait polémique - 25 août 2011
Steve Jobs est célèbre pour ses "keynotes", ces shows à l’américaine où l’ancien patron du groupe Apple aimait mettre en avant ses nouveaux produits. Mais M. Jobs est également connu pour ses nombreuses passes d’armes concernant les choix technologiques du groupe informatique.
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App developers withdraw from US as patent fears reach ’tipping point’ - 16 juillet 2011
Growth in US software patent lawsuits means independent developers are turning away from it as a place to do business - as Indian software company sends warning to tech giants
App developers are withdrawing their products for sale from the US versions of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market for fear of (...)
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Virtually all Android smartphones vulnerable to hackers - 18 mai 2011
Almost all Android smartphones are vulnerable to personal data theft when connected to an unencrypted WiFi network, security researchers have revealed.
By eavesdropping on data sent to the Google Calender, Contacts and Picasa apps, hackers could steal login credentials and gain full access to accounts.
"For (...)
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Android smartphones face data breach threat - 18 mai 2011
Owners of Android smartphones are being warned to avoid public WiFi networks after researchers found a security flaw that could affect the vast majority of devices based on Google’s software.
A trio of researchers at Ulm University in Germany found that it was "quite easy" for hackers to intercept data from (...)
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What They Know - Mobile - 4 mai 2011
Marketers 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. Apps routinely send the information to marketing companies that use it (...)
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Android hit by rogue app viruses - 3 mars 2011
More than 50 applications available via the official Android Marketplace have been found to contain a virus.
Analysis suggests that the booby-trapped apps may have been downloaded up to 200,000 times.
The malicious apps were copies of existing applications, such as games, that had been repackaged to include the (...)
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Android users hit by malware attacks - 3 mars 2011
Tens of thousands of users of Android-based smartphones have downloaded applications capable of taking over their phones with malicious software designed to steal data or send expensive messages, security experts have warned.
Google, the Android developer, has removed 55 such applications from its official (...)
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More than 50 Android apps found infected with rootkit malware - 2 mars 2011
Google acts to remove apps after developer finds ’DroidDream’ malware can take over phone and send personal details to remote server (updated)
More than 50 applications on Google’s Android Market have been discovered to be infected with malware called "DroidDream" which can compromise personal data by taking over (...)
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Google Renews Battle Over Facebook Contacts, Removes Phone Directory Sync On Nexus S - 25 février 2011
As part of today’s roll-out of Gingerbread updates to the Nexus One and Nexus S, Google also took an aggressive jab at Facebook : it has removed the ability of Facebook users to merge their "˜Facebook phone directory’ with the Contacts application on the Nexus S. In doing so Google has rekindled the battle over (...)
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Google blunts Facebook phone app on Android - 25 février 2011
Google has stepped up its data battle with Facebook by blunting the social networking site’s app on its phones.
An update for its latest mobile operating system will see users’ Facebook contacts disappear from the phone’s address book.
Google said it took the action as it was no longer willing to exempt Facebook (...)
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Swiftkey Android app knows what you’re typing before you do - 11 février 2011
A new version of the popular Swiftkey Android app analyses your emails to work out what you’re likely to type in future
Typing may never be the same again, thanks to a new mobile phone application that knows what to say before you do.
Swiftkey, developed by a British company from London, can predict entire (...)
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Le nouveau pari risqué de Murdoch - 6 février 2011
Le magnat australien va investir plusieurs millions de dollars dans la création d’un quotidien spécifiquement conçu pour l’iPad. Une expérience osée qui est observée avec beaucoup d’attention par les autres médias.
En ces temps où la presse se démène pour attirer le lecteur, Rupert Murdoch n’est plus à une expérimentation (...)
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Google Searches for Mobile-App Experts - 31 janvier 2011
Engineers, Product Managers Are Needed as More Development Is Brought In-House to Counter Apple
Google Inc. plans to hire dozens of software developers to create applications for smartphones and other mobile devices, people familiar with the matter said, a new strategy aimed partly at helping Google counter Apple (...)
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L’application de Kongregate retirée de l’Android Market - 21 janvier 2011
Après une courte apparition sur le magasin en ligne de Google, l’Android Market, l’application du portail Kongregate a été retirée, mercredi 19 janvier. Déjà célèbre pour ses jeux en Flash, le portail Web, qui compte des milliers de références, proposait 300 jeux pour les terminaux Android disposant de la version 2.2 du (...)
