5:26 PM
Ohio is considering a bill that would make it illegal to smoke in cars when children under 6 years old are in the car. Some critics say that is an invasion of privacy rights while others say that minors 6 years and older should be protected too. Four states already make it illegal to smoke with children present in a car--California, Maine, Louisiana and Arkansas:
http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/541918/Ohio-may-ban-smoking-in-cars.html?nav=5002
Sprint added 1.6 mil net subscribers in Q4 2011, aided significantly by their selling 1.8 mil iPhones in Q4 with 40% of the iPhones going to new Sprint customers. However, the high iPhone subsidy cost is evident by Sprint's $1.3 bil loss in the quarter despite their largest operating revenue increase in 5 years. Sprint pointed out that their iPhone users consume less data than their Android users--that is what AT&T and Verizon have also reported:
http://investors.sprint.com/Cache/1001163634.PDF?D=&O=PDF&IID=4057219&Y=&T=&FID=1001163634
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-notches-18m-iphone-activations-q4-margins-take-hit/2012-02-08
Popular iPhone app called Path uploads to their servers the entire address book of users WITHOUT permission (or even informing) from their users. Path was aware that they were doing this and responded to this blog's publication of their discovery pretty quickly. Path's Android app requires users to opt-in if they want to share their address book information, but Apple hasn't approved the opt-in feature for their Android app. Apple does not consider contact information as sensitive as location information, so iPhone/iPad apps get all of the user's address book data without any permission from the user:
http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html
Path's CEO apologized about how their iPhone/iPad users have had all of the address book data taken without their knowledge or permission, but this article gives a simple solution to the issue--Path can just delete all of the data they collected without permission and then ask their iPhone/iPad users for permission to use their address book data. A cynical person could point out that Path didn't apologize about secretly taking all of the contact information without permission until a blog accidentally discovered it...and note that Path isn't offering to delete any data they got without permission:
http://uncrunched.com/2012/02/08/hey-path-just-nuke-all-the-data/
http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/541918/Ohio-may-ban-smoking-in-cars.html?nav=5002
Sprint added 1.6 mil net subscribers in Q4 2011, aided significantly by their selling 1.8 mil iPhones in Q4 with 40% of the iPhones going to new Sprint customers. However, the high iPhone subsidy cost is evident by Sprint's $1.3 bil loss in the quarter despite their largest operating revenue increase in 5 years. Sprint pointed out that their iPhone users consume less data than their Android users--that is what AT&T and Verizon have also reported:
http://investors.sprint.com/Cache/1001163634.PDF?D=&O=PDF&IID=4057219&Y=&T=&FID=1001163634
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-notches-18m-iphone-activations-q4-margins-take-hit/2012-02-08
Popular iPhone app called Path uploads to their servers the entire address book of users WITHOUT permission (or even informing) from their users. Path was aware that they were doing this and responded to this blog's publication of their discovery pretty quickly. Path's Android app requires users to opt-in if they want to share their address book information, but Apple hasn't approved the opt-in feature for their Android app. Apple does not consider contact information as sensitive as location information, so iPhone/iPad apps get all of the user's address book data without any permission from the user:
http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html
Path's CEO apologized about how their iPhone/iPad users have had all of the address book data taken without their knowledge or permission, but this article gives a simple solution to the issue--Path can just delete all of the data they collected without permission and then ask their iPhone/iPad users for permission to use their address book data. A cynical person could point out that Path didn't apologize about secretly taking all of the contact information without permission until a blog accidentally discovered it...and note that Path isn't offering to delete any data they got without permission:
http://uncrunched.com/2012/02/08/hey-path-just-nuke-all-the-data/