FOI Topics and Links of the Week
Flurry: App Store Sees Record Breaking Christmas. Great article collecting sales and market share numbers for the App Store and Android Market. Quick summary: App Store grew 51% (!) from November to...
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Google launches Government Requests tool. Google is now making public information on the requests it receives from government agents to remove content from its search results or reveal private user...
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Game on. A featureless update released recently by TI blocks a hack that allowed owners to write their own programs for the company’s Nspire calculator. It’s not immediately obvious what rationale TI...
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In March, a panel of the Federal Circuit affirmed a Texas district court ruling requiring EchoStar to remotely disable the DVRs of innocent customers as part of its damages for infringing on TiVo’s DVR...
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T-Mobile gives its G2 Droid amnesia. The G2s appearing on T-Mobile shelves this week come with an extra piece of hardware, and it’s not a free car charger. If G2 owners teach their Droids (either by...
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The NYT Bits blog broke the story of an Android app called the “SMS replicator.” This odious piece of spyware is described here; unless it’s a prank, the idea is that a stalker type with momentary...
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Retailer’s Terms and Conditions attempt to restrict negative online reviews. After a consumer posted a negative review of an Internet retailer online, the retailer reached out, not to apologize, but...
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Amazon strong-arms a third-party Kindle service. Amazon shut down Lendle, a popular Kindle service that allows users to lend their books to strangers, last week because it didn’t “serve the principal...
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Smartphone tracking data. Two researchers reported last month that Apple has been storing time-stamped location information on users’ iOS devices since June. An unencrypted file with these data is...
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IR-transmitted metadata. Last week, Apple filed for a patent on an iOS camera that can detect infrared in addition to visible light. If a user aims the camera at an object that is sending out...
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