Okay, I am STILL not a smartphone user. I realize this puts me in the other 1%! For me it's really a matter of cost, but I digress. For those of you in the 99% who care about smartphones, this is something you might be interested in:
"The Web is abuzz about a newly revealed privacy threat to smartphone users––a "keystroke logger" program from a company named Carrier IQ that constantly runs in the background, without the user's knowledge. The software records personal information and events ranging from phone numbers dialed to the content of text messages and information typed in to presumably secure websites."
Friday, December 2, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
12 Things You Didn’t Know Facebook Could Do
From the New York Times.
"The designers and engineers who build Facebook are anything but complacent about their success. They face a constant threat from the career-centric LinkedIn, specialized upstarts like Instagram’s mobile photo network and now Google’s fast-growing Google+, an attempt to improve on Facebook’s core design that has picked up tens of millions of users in its first few weeks.
Minh Uong/The New York Times
So Facebook has been adding features to make the reigning social network more useful and convenient."
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