Elinor Mills:
Scammers are distributing apps for Windows Mobile-based smartphones that have malware hidden inside that makes calls to premium-rate numbers across the globe, racking up expensive bills unbeknownst to the phone’s owner, a mobile security firm said on Friday.
As Hans Gerwitz said on Twitter:
This is why the App Store is curated.
If you ever wondered why iPad apps are more money, or why some people just don’t give it away for free, then you need to read this. Very true.
A great look at just how far behind the times the Airline industry is (not that this should be a surprise to anyone).
He starts by saying they don’t collect data, then goes on to talk about all the data that they have gleaned. Amazing.
Take it away Dayton Foster:
Accordingly, our Tynt Insight service does NOT follow people or track their online behavior, the ONLY information captured is the specific content that gets copy/pasted, period.
Later:
And we’re learning more about how people want to share information, which ultimately should lead to additional services that make browsing and content sharing even easier. One thing we’ve learned is that most content is being shared by email, Facebook, blog posts, and other services, where frequently a link to the source will be useful to the reader.
Robert Reich:
And as BP continues to pay out dividends to its shareholders, how can we trust it will have enough capital to pay all the costs of cleanup, not to mention the costs to businesses and individauls of the devastation it’s wrought?
This whole situation is embarrassing and sad.
Stephen M. Hackett:
The clone program is as dead today as it was the morning after Steve Jobs killed it. Apple makes software to sell hardware. That’s been the company’s stance since the early days, and it has worked for the company ever since.
Samuel Axon:
Bangladesh ended its ban on Facebook today after the social networking company agreed to block access to the images that the government deemed offensive, according to the AFP.
Not only does Facebook not respect privacy, they apparently don’t care about free speech.
Robert McMillan:
When exploited, the flaw can cause Adobe’s software to crash, but it can also give attackers control of the computer, Adobe said.
Well that’s not good.
David Heinemeier Hansson:
Now contrast this to Steve Ballmer. Who’s certainly no genius and calling him evil is to belittle evil. He has turned the gorilla into a buffoon. And frankly, it’s sad. Gone are the feelings of rage (except when they patent troll people for being web apps) and left is pity.
Truth hurts.
Eric Meyer:
So it is with the App Store. It’s a central location for iPhone and iPad owners to go shop for apps. The stock is large—too large for any physical store to handle—but it is still screened. You may not like the screening criteria, just as you may not like the screening criteria exercised at Wal-Mart, but it exists nonetheless.
Om Malik:
The other Steve (Ballmer) is almost always wrong. He was wrong about the iPod. He was wrong about the iPhone and he is once again going to be proven wrong about Google’s Android OS.
and:
Let’s face it, Android has gored Microsoft’s mobile operations, leaving it with a bleeding, gaping wound that looks difficult to patch at this point.
Not just Android, but Apple too.
I am salivating, can’t wait for this. Love how the navigation was put along the side so you can use your thumbs, with current offerings like NetNewsWire you have to move your hand to advance through items.
Matt Drance:
This is what Apple does so well: it brings you aboard with something familiar or intuitive, and then takes you someplace you wouldn’t have gone otherwise. It is also what Apple’s competitors and detractors never seem to understand. With every product launch, naysayers inevitably turn to a PowerPoint slide and note that company X’s product overview has more bullets. It’s not about the bullets. It’s about people wanting to use the product. Tapping into that is very, very hard—especially when refusing to acknowledge its importance. How they can continue to ignore it as Apple’s sales and market cap soar is a mystery.
Spot on.
This is really cool, and from Microsoft no less.
Expect this to be an upward trend.
Brad Stone:
Rdio customers paying the full amount will be able to stream and store songs on a range of mobile devices, beginning with the BlackBerry and iPhone, and soon, phones running the Android operating system from Google. The company is backed through the founders’ Atomico Ventures, a venture-capital firm based in London.
I have never liked subscriptions services, but hey, to each his own.
Julie Bosman:
Beginning on Sunday, the Kindle e-reader will be sold in Target stores nationwide, the company announced on Wednesday. It will be the first brick-and-mortar store to sell the Kindle, which had been available only through the Amazon Web site.
Great move by Amazon, the more people that get to touch the Kindle – the more people that buy the Kindle. Paying $259 for something you can’t play with before hand was never a great sales pitch.
Jason Kincaid:
When asked about the site’s privacy changes, Zuckerberg wasn’t exactly forthcoming. Many tweets, and the official live coverage of the event, noted that Zuckerberg dodged some questions about privacy, resorting to talk about encouraging serendipity through openness and well-worn anecdotes detailing why sharing is important. Zuckerberg also brought up Facebook’s oft-repeated stat that over 50% of users have adjusted their privacy settings, citing it as evidence that users know what they’re doing (this doesn’t convince me in the slightest — that means nearly 250 million people haven’t touched them).
As to be expected.
Really cool screen, but I don’t see how the bending of the screen to zoom is all that intuitive…