By Emily Price |
2011 was a big year for tech. While there were plenty of highlights, there were also quite a few lowlights during 2011. Here are (in my opinion) a few of the biggest blunders in the tech industry from 2011. Think I’ve left a few off?…
By Noah Kravitz |
This week’s Rumor Roundup reads like something out of Spy-vs-Spy, what with all of the smartphone spying and video game lip-reading. Noah brings you the latest from the tech rumor mill: Who is Carrier IQ, and are they spying on your phone? Will the Galaxy…
By Adriana Lee |
Discovering that user-activity logging program Carrier IQ might be loaded on your phone is like finding out there’s a peeping tom in your neighborhood: You want to find out if your house was on the scumbag’s route or not. Well, if you have a rooted…
By Mike Perlman |
While the Carrier IQ debacle continues to dig its own hole more furiously than a rabid groundhog, Apple is the first critter to pop its head up from the soil and clear itself…for the most part. Apple released a statement today indicating that the company…
By Adriana Lee |
It’s no secret that our data and usage behavior on our phones are eminently loggable. But its another thing entirely to see it in action. That’s just what we get to do, though, thanks to one crafty Android dev. Renowned developer Trevor Eckhart has recorded…
By Adriana Lee |
Apparently, there was a little extra something in HTC’s recent Gingerbread update (v 2.3.4) for the Sensation and EVO 3D. A user over at InfectedROM was checking out the Carrier IQ (CIQ) – which usually just sends some harmless data to the carriers about the…
