O2 mobile users in the UK are venting on Twitter today, fuming at their discovery that their phone number is being shared with every website that they visit over the network. I found a colleague who owns an iPhone on the O2 network, and we tried it out for ourselves. Making sure we turned off […]
As if we weren’t already a drifting, confused mob of smartphone-jabbing zombies already, Google has presented a new way to baffle business customers. As the New York Times recently reported and a bunch of “No, we are not closed” businesses subsequently protested, Google’s Yellow Pages-ish Google Places turns out to be dismayingly easy to lie […]
A website that makes it child’s play for iPad and iPhone owners to jailbreak their devices raises important security concerns. The site, jailbreakme.com, exploits a PDF vulnerability to run unauthorised code on Apple customers’ iPhones and iPads, including the new iPad 2. In this way they allow users to unlock their devices, and run programs […]
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