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iOS security issue giving Apple a big, black eye

Posted by | Apr 21, 2011 | , |

Apple once blasted Big Brother. Now some folks think it’s becoming Big Brother with concerns over the company’s “spying” features in iOS 4, a matter that’s giving the company a big black eye. Maybe two.

Security researchers at Privacy International (https://www.privacyinternational.org) says that iOS 4 keeps track of where you go and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner’s computer when the two are synchronized, according to “The Guardian” (http://macte.ch/RcpCR).

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CookieStumbler for Mac OS X updated to version 1.1.3

Posted by | Apr 21, 2011 | , |

WriteIt! Studios has updated CookieStumbler (http://www.writeitstudios.com), an application to keep your Mac’s privacy safe, to version 1.1.3. It’s a maintenance update.

Cookie Stumbler — which requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher — includes tools to detect ad/tracking cookies. It features schedules, on-click filter and automator actions to make the process customizable.

With Cookie Stumbler you can scan and track cookies, then remove them with a single click. It supports Google Chrome, Firefox, OmniWeb, Chromium, Safari and Flash cookies.

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Great companies, lousy stocks

Posted by | Apr 21, 2011 | , |

By Bill Gunderson
of Gunderson Capital Management (http://www.PWstreet.com)

I’m selling my book on-line. Thanks to Google AdWords, they are flying through cyberspace.

Does that mean I am telling my clients to rush out and buy Google?

Not a chance.

Johnson & Johnson make some of the most trusted health care products in the world. Surely there is room in my list of 157 Best Stocks Now for such an important part of our national life. No. Not if you want to make money.

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