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Tablet Market Diversifying Away From Apple’s iPad

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Android and Blackberry have already made deep in roads in the iPad’s presumed invincibility Windows 8 is poised to make an assault next.

Blackberry Playbook, selling at $199

Last May, the media was calling Apple’s iPad the unbeatable market leader. In less than a year Apple has lost major market share to Android and RIM.

Deep price cuts, new smaller and larger tablet sizes, marketing and features and Microsoft Windows 8 will all erode Apple’s current dominant position with the iPad.  Continue reading →

Apple harvesting privacy data promises to stop with update

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Inquiry by US Congress forces Apple to admit it has been stealthily harvesting iPhone users private date


ComputerWorld – US Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking him about iOS apps that have harvested users’ address book information without permission.

Shortly after two U.S. Congressmen asked Apple to answer questions about iPhone and iPad apps that snatch users’ contact lists without permission, the Cupertino, Calif. company promised it will address the issue with a future software update.  Continue reading →

DNT+ take back user online privacy

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Free IE and Firefox plugin blocks advertising tracking sites

By Stephen Pate – DNT+, short for Do Not Track, is free browser plugin that stops advertising and online behavioral sites from tracking a users every move on the web.

The software is from Abine The Online Privacy Company. Users or organizations can download it free. There are browser specific versions. DNT+ downloads the plugin for each. Visit the site with each browser and a browser specific version is downloaded and installed.
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