Is Apple Spying on your iPhone Usage?
While I am sure other mobile carriers spy on your mobile phone usage, it does come as a bit of a shocker to see code snippet that may call home to Apple embedded in a iPhone application.
From the archive
2007
624 posts
Cisco needs to spend on something
Cisco has turned around the slide in the stockmarket with an announcement that they are buying back $10Bn worth of stock. Investors are obviously happy given that this has driven the companies stock up, and other tech stocks have risen on the news. This is just in a way considering that a poor earnings report from Cisco is a major factor in the Nasdaq getting the jitters over the last few weeks.
Shuttle Launch
If you are a fan of the space shuttle, photography, space or any combination you will enjoy this arial shot of a space shuttle launch. It’s not a new photo being of a Columbia launch in 1981, but a fantastic shot.
Laptop Recomendations
Come the first of the year I am going to purchase a new Windows Based PC. It has to have a decent video card, and will be used as a desktop replacement machine thus I will be looking at a 17 inch monitor. I will be using it with a secondary monitor as well. I have had good luck the
Zune MarketPlace Podcast Subscriptions Explode!
Over a week ago I instructed Angelo the CIO at RawVoice to make sure that we were ready when the new Zunes were introduced. I wanted to make sure that our podcast stats service was ready to track the Zune MarketPlace Downloads.
Some PayPerPost Bloggers Punished by Google Tough Luck!
All I can say, is that if the bloggers that were punished by Google are in the group of people who did not disclose in their articles that they were paid to post “tough luck”. If you have been disclosing in your post then tough luck for being associated with a company, that many of us thought was highly unethical.
GNC-2007-11-16
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One by one they fall
And realise that fighting your customers is not good for business. Warner Brothers now joins EMI and a limited Universal in recognising that the goal of a company should be to make their product easy for customers to use, and allow them to use it as much as they can. Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman claims the music industry was wrong to start a fight with consumers.
A virtual smack in the head
GNC reader and blogger Karoli posted a comment to my PayPerPost article, and expanded on her blog, justifiably calling me to task on how I expressed myself in the article. I made repeated reference to PayPerPost in the article using a noun as a verb. My intent was to discuss the larger impact of undisclosed advertising in blog posts and used PayPerPost as a euphemism for that (which given the second paragraph of my post is quite ironic). Doing so detracted from the clarity of the message I was trying to give and also unfairly degraded a companies trademark. As Karoli put it
My view on PayPerPost
In GNC #316 Todd asks our opinions of Mark Hopkin’s post on Mashable that questions whether IZEA is evil or not ,and I wanted to share my opinion with you.
GNC-2007-11-13
Live Interview with Rob Greenlee he is head of the ZUNE Podcast Programing and Marketing Lead. Also listen to find out how you can win a 8GB Zune. With the Interview this is a Monster Show! Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 Sponsor: Save Money with all our GoDaddy Codes
TechCrunch RSS Advertising is the Worst
Tonight while getting ready for my Podcast I removed a RSS feed from my regular reading list because of excessive advertising in the feed. I'm serious -- the stupid ad TechCrunch has after every article in the feed measures 612 pixels in height.
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