NEW YORK (AP) — Many U.S. cellphone users say they have decided not to use an app on their phone because of concerns about privacy. More than half of Americans who use apps say they have decided not to install one once they found out how much personal information they’d have to share, according to [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The languages and the cultures are different, but the pet peeves of mobile technology users around the globe are the same, with most people annoyed by receiving too much information, according to a poll released on Wednesday. About 60 percent of adults and teenagers in eight countries said too much is [...]
Forget information overload. What you’ve got is information just-right-load. That’s the conclusion reached by a trio of researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, who interviewed 77 people in seven focus groups in an effort to understand the new media consumer’s psyche and ability to adapt to the barrage-of-information age. Contrary to many experts’ [...]
A group tied to the hacker collective Anonymous claims to have hacked into an FBI agent’s laptop and revealed more than 1 million numbers used to track Apple mobile devices. In a post on the file-sharing site Pastebin, the hackers, who go by the name “AntiSec,” said they broke into a laptop back in March belonging [...]
TOKYO, Aug 31 (Reuters) – A Tokyo court ruled on Friday that Samsung Electronics’ mobile devices did not violate an Apple Inc patent involved in synching mobile devices and computers, awarding the South Korean maker a victory a week after it lost a bruising landmark patent case in the United States. In rejecting Apple’s suit, [...]
Aug 31 (Reuters) – Shares of Facebook Inc fell 4.5 percent to a new low on Friday after brokerages cut their price targets on the company’s shares, saying several lock-up expirations over the next year will weigh on the stock. Early investors got the green light to sell Facebook shares for the first time on [...]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Apple and four major publishers have offered to allow retailers such as Amazon to sell e-books at a discount for two years in a bid to end an EU antitrust investigation and stave off possible fines, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. The EU antitrust watchdog opened an investigation [...]
NEW YORK/SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp and Nokia Oyj are loading up for their best — and possibly last — shot at denting a smartphone market dominated by Apple Inc’s iPhone and Google Inc’s Android mobile software. If the new Lumia phones do not appeal to consumers when they are unveiled next Wednesday, it could [...]
(Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc is testing a “Scan & Go” system that would allow shoppers to scan items using their iPhones and then quickly pay at a self-checkout counter. Earlier this week, Walmart invited employees with Apple Inc iPhones to participate in a test at a Walmart supercenter in Rogers, Arkansas, near the company’s [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is weeding out fake “Likes” on its social network that are being caused by spammers, malware and black marketeers as it strives to maintain credibility as an advertising platform. Facebook said the number of Likes, or endorsements by users, on corporate pages is likely to drop by less than [...]
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