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Apple unveils its Latest Next-Generation tablet iPad Air
JNN 23 Oct. 2013 New York – Apple, the tech titan has revealed its new tablets — the iPad Air and an upgraded iPad mini — that are lighter and faster than their predecessors. Continue reading
iPhone Launches New Models with New Software at an Apple Event , Does the Price Worth it
JNN 14 Sept 2013 New York : Two new iPhones in an array of colors and a redesigned operating system to run them were among the major announcements from Apple on Tuesday. Continue reading
Mobile app launched for Muslims to alert for Prayer timings , and Set Qibla Direction World Over ,even in the Plane
JNN 14 Aug 2013 Singapore : A Singapore-based company has launched an iPhone app alerting Muslims when to pray and in which direction they should face even when they’re 35,000 feet in the air. Continue reading
Muslims rejoice as Azaan echoed from the Mosque in Stockholm , Sweden for the first time
JNN 30 April 2013 Stockholm : Muslim Worshippers at the Fittja mosque in southern Stockholm on Friday heard Sweden’s first-ever call to prayer ( Azaan ) , which brought some congregation members to tears of joy. Continue reading
Flexible e-paper smart phone unveiled
JNN 08 May 2011 : Researchers have demonstrated a flexible smartphone which can easily be twisted as an ordinary piece of paper can into any shape. Continue reading Majority of Apps spy on users
JNN 18 Dec 2010 : An investigation into smartphone applications has revealed that most the Apps are designed to spy on people, transmitting personal data of device owners to different companies.According to The Wall Street Journal‘s investigation, 56 of the 101 widely used Apps — including software and games for iPhone and Android phones — transferred the personal details of their users to advertising companies without the consent of users.
Various companies benefit from the personal information in different ways, ranging from finding the users address to their interests and software they use the most.
Forty-seven of these applications transmitted the location of the phone, whereas age, gender and other personal information were sent by five of the Apps. The unique ID number assigned to each phone by the manufacturers was the most widely shared detail.
iPhone sends out more information compared with Androids which typically use Google operating systems, the study found.
TextPlus 4 (iPhone App for text messaging), Pandora (a music App in both iPhone and Android), and Paper Toss (a game in both iPhone and Android) were the applications sharing the most data. The manufacturers of TextPlus 4 and Pandora; however, deny the claim, saying that the Apps share data anonymously and the personal profile, including age and gender, is transferred voluntarily.
Apple, similarly, says iPhone Apps “cannot transmit data about a user without obtaining the user’s prior permission and providing the user with access to information about how and where the data will be used.”
The manufacturers of Smart Phones running Google’s Android operating systems, such as Motorola Inc, Samsung Electronics Co and Google, say the responsibility of handling with user’s information rests with the App-makers. If users do not like a particular application to have access to their data, they can simply choose not to install the app, Google says.
While computer users can block or delete tiny tracking files (cookies), smartphone users are completely powerless in this regard.
“In the world of mobile, there is no anonymity,” says Michael Becker of the Mobile Marketing Association, stressing that a cell phone is “always with us. It’s always on.”
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