Carrier IQ Tracking: Your Questions Answered

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December 1, 2011
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Carrier IQ Tracking: Your Questions Answered Carrier IQ's software is on more than 140 million handsets worldwide. So is it tracking Android and BlackBerry user data?
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Asus Transformer Prime Earns Rave Reviews The tablet's svelte design, speedy performance via the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor and camera quality got high marks.
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Carrier IQ Rootkit Reportedly Logs Everything On Millions Of Phones [Updated] UPDATED x2: Millions of phones may be at risk from a secret data logging software that's on nearly every Android, Blackberry, and Nokia phone out there, according to a researcher. References to it also reportedly found in iOS.
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Amazon Updates Kindle Fire, Removes Root Access The latest Kindle Fire software update removes root access from the device.
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Internet Service Providers May Start Usage-Based Charging The free lunch may be over for Netflix and Hulu Plus users.
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Chrome Edges Firefox for Second Place in Browser Battle Web analytics firm StatCounter says Chrome remains in third place in the United States but it is on track to overtake Firefox.
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Developer: The Witcher 2 Has Been Pirated 4.5 Million Times The Witcher 2 developer estimates game has been illegally downloaded millions of times, but says DRM isn't the solution.
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A First Look at Spotify's New Music Apps Rolling Stone, Last.fm, Pitchfork and others are launching HTML5 apps with the streaming music service.
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Mozilla Considers Killing Firefox on Apple's Leopard A Mozilla engineering manager has proposed that the company pull the plug on Mac OS X 10.5 in six months.
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Shopycat: Walmart's Facebook App for Last-Minute Holiday Shopping The Shopycat app runs Facebook information through Walmart's Social Genome technology and then matches the keywords that process provides with gift suggestions.
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Congressman Still Has Privacy Concerns About Kindle Fire's Browser Ed Markey says Amazons responses to his inquiries do not provide enough detail about how the company intends to use customer information gathered via Silk.
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iPhone 4S Users Satisfied with Phone, but Not its Battery Life A survey from ChangeWave Research found that 96 percent of respondents were somewhat or very satisfied with their device, but 38 percent of those people said the phone's battery life was too short.
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Great Gifts Under $200 From realistic lightsabers to the season's hottest video games--weve got the perfect gift for everyone on your list.
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WikiLeaks Launches New Whistle-blowing Platform WikiLeaks on Thursday released a broad study of the brisk global trade in surveillance products, which founder Julian Assange [cq] claimed exposes a broad risk...
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IE9 Continues to Climb on Windows 7 New browser market share stats show Internet Explorer as a whole is flat, but Internet Explorer 9 continues to gain traction and is on pace to be the number one browser on Windows 7.
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Sharp Introduces Super-thin Camera Module for Smartphones Sharp on Thursday announced a camera module for smartphones that shoots 12.1 megapixels and is just 5.47-mm (0.22 inches) thick, which it says is the thinnest in...
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Robots Have Just Become Self-Aware (Sorta) Qbo the robot looks at a mirror to identify and learns that it is looking at itself.
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Critical Systems at Risk Despite Water Utility False Alarm A recent "hack" against an Illinois water utility turned out to not be an attack at all, but security experts warn that municipal utilities and other critical networks are at risk and need better security.
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Researchers Print Scaffolds for New Bones...With a Friggin' Inkjet If you need a bone, 3D-printed scaffold replacements may be around in the next 1-2 decades.
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