Tag Archive | "location"
Man catches wife cheating with Apple’s “Find my Friends” app
In conjunction with the release of iOS 5, Apple last week released “Find My Friends”, a new app which enables iPhone users to track the location of friends who have agreed to share their location data with a trusted group of people. When Apple introduced the feature at their iPhone 4S media event, some of […]
Continue reading...Apple releases “Find my Friends” app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: It’s a busy week for Apple. The rolling out of iOS 5, iCloud, and of course the iPhone 4S this Friday. Apple got things started today with iOS 5 and iCloud, and also managed to release the Find My Friends app Eddy cue first debuted last week at Apple’s iPhone media event. […]
Continue reading...Find My Friends app in iOS 5 enables location sharing with friends
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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Apple yesterday introduced a new iPhone app called Find My Friends. As the name implies, the app lets users quickly see the location of friends who have agreed to have their geo-location data shared with a subset of trusted people. What’s interesting, is that users can invite friends to share their location for a limited […]
Continue reading...Al Franken clumsily asks Apple and Google to write app store privacy policies
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Senator Al Franken is chomping at the bit in his efforts to lead this mobile OS privacy crusade into deep waters. Despite having Apple and Google show up to DC twice to essentially reiterate what had already been said in a press release, Franken now wants both Apple and Google to write up “clear and […]
Continue reading...Apple, The Weather Channel, and Pandora sued for location tracking
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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By John Hiesler: With billions in the bank, Apple remains an attractive target for patent trolls and, more broadly speaking, litigious citizenry trying to sue Apple on trumped up claims in an effort to eek out some sort of cash settlement. In the latest example of said behavior, Lymaris M. Rivera Diaz filed a suit […]
Continue reading...Apple’s Guy Tribble appears before congress, addresses iOS location tracking and privacy issues
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
By Luis Estrada: Let’s go to Washington, folks. Earlier today, Apple’s VP of software technology Guy L. “Bud” Tribble appeared before a congressional hearing on mobile privacy to address concerns that were first brought to the forefront following the “location tracking” controversy that emerged a few weeks ago In the wake of that hoopla, Apple’s […]
Continue reading...Apple issues iOS 4.3.3, iOS 4.2.8 updates; fixes “location tracking” bugs
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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Apple today released iOS 4.3.3, an iOS update that addresses a number of bugs associated with the “location tracking” code that created quite a stir a few weeks ago. If you recall, the consolidated.db file in iOS 4 keeps a running log of cell phone tower and wi-fi hotspot information to expedite the process by which […]
Continue reading...How the iPhone 4 helped the US track down and kill Bin Laden [Comic]
Monday, May 2, 2011
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Yesterday, news broke that terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden had been killed thanks to the fine work of Seal Team 6 and a host of governmental agencies from the CIA to the NSA and NGA. Bin Laden’s death marks the end of a 13-year manhunt for the murderer mastermind behind the 9/11 tragedy that took […]
Continue reading...iOS 4.3.3 update will address location tracking issue within 2 weeks
Monday, May 2, 2011
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Apple last week officially addressed the controversy surrounding the consolidate.db file found in iOS 4. As noted by Apple’s official press release, the data compiled by Apple was not user location data, but rather information regarding Cell Phone towers and wi-fi hotspots to speed along the process of determining a user’s location at any given […]
Continue reading...A poem about the iOS location-tracking “scandal”
Thursday, April 28, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall In iOS 4 some data was found that made people think Apple was following them around location data for months on end people were pissed at Apple, this wasn’t pretend Consolidated.db was the name of the file but the truth of the matter was that it had been around for awhile helping detectives […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller, and Scott Forstall discuss iOS location controversy
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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In light of the much ballyhooed location tracking controversy, which really shouldn’t have been controversial in the first place, All Things D today conducted a telephone interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs and other executives where they discussed the issue in question at length. When this controversy first started to spread out of control last […]
Continue reading...Apple officially addresses iOS “tracking tool”
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Apple today finally addressed the hyped up controversy regarding their alleged practice of tracking users with iOS devices. First, Apple clarifies that they’ve never, nor will they ever, track the location of any iPhone. So what, pre tell, is all that location data for that everyone is going so crazy about? The iPhone is not […]
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
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