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What your gadgets reveal about you

What your gadgets reveal about you

Posted by | Sep 22, 2010 | , |

By Andrew Eisner

Whether you’re a Mac or a PC, an iPhone, Android, or a BlackBerry user, the gadgets you use say something about you. Based on Retrevo’s 2010 Gadget Census, gadget owners exhibit different behavior and characteristics depending on which gadget camps they belong to. Here’s a list of some of the more interesting conclusions we’ve drawn from looking at the gadgets people use in thousands of households across the country and around the world.

Mac Owners Buy More Apple Products

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Germany: Apple, others must come up with data protection guidelines

Posted by | Sep 21, 2010 | , |

Germany’s government has told Apple, Google and other providers of online map services to come up with their own guidelines on data protection by Dec. 7 or face new regulations on the market, reports “Total Telecom” (http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=3&ID=458750).



Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said after a meeting between German officials and Internet executives that they had one last chance to adopt voluntary measures or Berlin would draw up legislation to protect consumers. Representatives of the companies involved didn’t attend the news conference.



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Greg’s bite: Adobe Flashes away privacy

Greg’s bite: Adobe Flashes away privacy

Posted by | Sep 21, 2010 | , |

By Greg Mills

I read an article in the “Wall Street Journal” this morning about another problem with Adobe Flash that I had never heard of. It turns out Adobe Flash, in addition to the other known issues related to crashing, memory hog problems etc, also exposes users to being tracked as they surf the web.  

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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for Sept. 20

iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for Sept. 20

Posted by | Sep 20, 2010 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Andrew & Alexa has announced Ruler, an US$0.99 iPhone/iPod touch innovation of the universal tool. While conventional rulers involve mentally discerning measurements from small markings, using Ruler is just a matter of aligning the pointer, according to the folks at Andrew & Alexa.

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