iphone

Careful: Twitter may be storing your contacts

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 02/15/2012 - 11:38

Have you recently used the hand-dandy Find Friends feature found in the official Android and iPhone Twitter apps?

If so, you have authorized Twitter to upload the contents of your entire contacts list to its servers — and to keep them there for 18 months.

The LA Times …


 

Your address book is mine: Many iPhone apps take your data

Digg / Tech Industry News  Tue, 02/14/2012 - 18:48

Path got caught red-handed uploading users' address books to its servers and had to apologize. But the relatively obscure journaling app is not alone.

In fact, Path was crucified for a practice tha...


 

Full Interview: Limor Fried on Open Source Hardware

Linux Today  Sat, 02/11/2012 - 04:00

CBC.ca: Making wearable computers? A booster for your iPhone made out of a mint box? It doesn't get more DIY than this.


 

Analyst: China could bring 57M iPhone bump by 2013

Digg / Tech Industry News  Mon, 01/30/2012 - 08:22

Apple's iPhone was a hot seller in the company's first fiscal quarter of 2012, but that's nothing compared to what one analyst predicts we could see in just a couple of years' time.

Morgan Stanley thinks Apple's efforts in China could pay big dividends by 2013.


 

iPad 3 to have a low-res Retina display

Extremetech  Fri, 01/20/2012 - 04:19

A few months ago we tackled the the popular rumor that the next iteration of Apple’s iPad would have a full Retina display.

At the time, I predicted that we were still about a year out from seeing such a device due to the fact that no semiconductor foundry had the capability to mass-produce the amount of high-res screens necessary to fill Cupertino’s needs.


 

How To Fix A Broken iPhone Screen

Digg / Tech Industry News  Thu, 01/19/2012 - 02:41

If you have ever experienced the pain and despair of picking your once shiny iPhone off the ground to find a disgusting fissure across the screen? Here's how to fix it!