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  Facebook Places Shares Where You Are

  JP 1:42 am on August 21, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Since March, at least, we’ve known that Facebook Places has been coming. We also knew that, despite its built-in audience, Facebook would have to offer more functionality than established location-based services like Foursquare if it hoped to succeed. Finally, after months of testing, Zuckerberg and crew have taken the cover off Places, and entered a brand new realm of usage. You’ll be able to start checking out the new tools tonight (Wednesday) by visiting the mobile Facebook page on your smartphone or updating the official iPhone app.

  Places, much like Foursquare, lets you check in from various locations while you’re out and about. Checking in is connected to pages for those places (whether it be a restaurant or a park) that track recent activity at their respective locations. In addition to simply announcing that you’re at a location, you can see if any of your other friends have checked in from there, or tag the friends who are currently there with you. The functionality of tagging is almost exactly like mentions on Twitter (’@’ prefix and all), but, as with Facebook’s photos, users have the option to untag themselves or prevent themselves from being tagged altogether.

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  Facebook Places Shares Where You Are originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Delta Booking Flights Through Facebook, iPhone App Coming Soon

  JP 1:43 am on August 15, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Filed under: Cell Phones, iPhone, Web, Social Networking

  Starting today, you’ll be able tag where you’ve been (or where you will be going), update your friends on your travel plans, and actually purchase your tickets all in the same place — as long as you plan to fly Delta. The airline has opened an online Ticket Window, which lets customers purchase tickets through Facebook. Delta is the first airline to offer such a service through the social network, which is shocking since the larger airlines have been slower to adopt social marketing tools than have budget-oriented competitors like Southwest and JetBlue.

  Delta will be making other improvements to its digital presence. The airline will launch a revamped website, and expand the Ticket Window widget to other sites — namely by embedding it in banner ads, thus allowing you to book flights without interrupting your browsing experience. Most interesting, though, is the planned release of an iPhone app that will let customers check in, track their flight status and even use the app as an electronic boarding pass. The idea of never again having to fight with an airport kiosk or an employee at the check-in counter is certainly enough to catch our attention. [From: Huffington Post]

  Delta Booking Flights Through Facebook, iPhone App Coming Soon originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Mobile Apps Could Be Exposing Your Personal Data

  JP 1:44 am on July 31, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: genome project, iPhone, mobile apps (5), nbsp (1,691), percent (16), Read (1,473)

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  Lookout, a mobile security company, embarked on an absolutely massive study that examined the code of some 300,000 Android and iPhone apps. Dubbed the App Genome Project, it looked at a large cross-section of mobile apps and found that an unsettling number of them were accessing your personal information, and sometimes without alerting you. According to Lookout, 33-percent of iPhone and 29-percent of Android apps accessed the phone’s location data, while 14-percent and 8-percent of iPhone and Android apps (respectively) were accessing contacts stored on the device.

  Making these numbers even more worrisome is the fact that 47-percent of Android apps and 23-percent of iPhone apps included third-party code that could easily expose personal information or contain security flaws, even without the developer’s knowledge. This reusable code (often from advertising or analytics networks) is also very difficult to patch and can cause trouble for numerous programs. Revelations like these highlight the growing importance of mobile security, which is, of course, the very business that Lookout is in. The company sells mobile malware scanning and data backup tools, so it certainly has something to gain from a little bit of paranoia. But as they say, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. [From: Lookout, via: New York Times and Venture Beat]

  Mobile Apps Could Be Exposing Your Personal Data originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Best Twitter Apps for iPhone

  JP 11:14 am on July 21, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  During the iPhone’s nascent stages, users had limited choices when it came to Twitter applications. But now, there are myriad services that allow you to blast 140-character tweets, and keep up with your buddies, too. So now, the problem is weeding out the pretenders from the contenders – not that we’re complaining.

  So to help you decide which app is best for you, we’re offering a brief overview, with ratings (on a 1-to-5-birdie scale, of course), of eight Twitter apps for iPhone. BlackBerry users, don’t fret; we’ve got you covered, too.

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  Best Twitter Apps for iPhone originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Guy Loses iPhone and iPad in the 'Trash,' Uses MobileMe to Recover Them

  JP 10:21 am on June 23, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  For iPhone users, the MobileMe ‘Find My iPhone’ service is kind of like a first-aid kit; we all like to have it around, but we’d never want to be in a situation where we’d actually have to use it. Yet, those are exactly the dire straits in which one Eric Boehs recently found himself after mysteriously misplacing both his iPhone and iPad.

  As Wired reports, the saga unfolded when Eric hurried to get his trash bags to the curb before an approaching garbage truck arrived. He grabbed the trash, ran outside, and, at some point, set down his bag, which contained his iPhone and iPad. When he returned, both devices were missing, apparently having been carted away by the garbage truck. Tech savvy as he is, Eric raced to his Mac and used the MobileMe feature to hunt down his iPhone. The app pinpointed the phone at a nearby Hooter’s, where the garbagemen were either eating lunch, picking up trash, or, most likely, both. When the iPhone didn’t move for 45 minutes, Eric hopped in the car along with an iPad-equipped friend named Billy, and a videographer who documented the event.

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  Guy Loses iPhone and iPad in the ‘Trash,’ Uses MobileMe to Recover Them originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  iPhone Apps: The Next Frontier for Political Campaigns

  JP 10:20 am on June 23, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  If we had to call it, 2008 was the year that politicians took to Facebook and Twitter. More ambitious, it seems, 2010 may turn out to be the year of the mobile app. In the lead up to the midterm elections, many candidates for office, even local ones, are releasing iPhone apps in order to reach potential voters.

  In 2008, then-Senator Obama saw great success with his iPhone app, which allowed supporters to find local events, contact organizers and donate money. Now other politicians want in on the high-tech game — even if they’re campaigning to only a tiny fraction of the constituency Obama was. For example, Doug MacGinnitie is a Republican running for secretary of state in Georgia, and his campaign has put together a basic iPhone app that provides updates about his quest for office, and allows supporters to donate. It’s only been downloaded about 200 times, but it’s hardly a failure.

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  iPhone Apps: The Next Frontier for Political Campaigns originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Whines About His New iPhone, Sticks With It Anyway

  JP 1:46 am on June 17, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  At one time, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a die-hard BlackBerry devotee. But when his little piggies started hurting from pounding the crap out of the device, he decided to switch to the iPhone. And he’s still not happy.

  In a post made on his Facebook page yesterday (now removed), Zuckerberg complained that, just one week after making the switch, he’d already been forced to buy four different chargers to juice his new iPhone on the go, and to install a land line to “actually make phone calls.” Why would he stick with the device, then? Gawker speculates that if Zuck’s gone to the trouble to buy four chargers, he’s got to like something about the iPhone. In a follow-up comment on his status, though, the CEO explains that he made the switch because using his BlackBerry all the time resulted in sore thumbs, and added that he’s still considering switching to Android.

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  Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Whines About His New iPhone, Sticks With It Anyway originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Whines About His New iPhone, Sticks With It Anyway

  JP 1:45 am on June 16, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  At one time, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a die-hard BlackBerry devotee. But when his little piggies started hurting from pounding the crap out of the device, he decided to switch to the iPhone. And he’s still not happy.

  In a post made on his Facebook page yesterday (now removed), Zuckerberg complained that, just one week after making the switch, he’d already been forced to buy four different chargers to juice his new iPhone on the go, and to install a land line to “actually make phone calls.” Why would he stick with the device, then? Gawker speculates that if Zuck’s gone to the trouble to buy four chargers, he’s got to like something about the iPhone. In a follow-up comment on his status, though, the CEO explains that he made the switch because using his BlackBerry all the time resulted in sore thumbs, and added that he’s still considering switching to Android.

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  Couple Weds Via iPad, Apocalypse Inches Closer

  JP 1:46 am on June 14, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  How do you know when your iPad love crosses into unhealthily obsessive territory? When your entire wedding ceremony revolves around it.

  As Gizmodo reports, one happily married couple recently had the geektastic idea of conducting their entire wedding (i.e., the most important day of their lives) with an iPad. As you can see in this video, appropriately titled ‘iPad Wedding,’ the officiant reads out the vows from his own iPad, after which the groom says “I do” by updating his Facebook and Twitter status from his iPhone. Cue the chorus of knowing chuckles.

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  Couple Weds Via iPad, Apocalypse Inches Closer originally appeared on Switched on Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Apple Debuts iPhone 4, Available on June 24

  JP 11:48 am on June 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  As we all expected, Apple today unveiled the latest generation iPhone, simply dubbed the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 is exactly the same device that leaked on Gizmodo back in April, but don’t think just because a few prototypes made it into the hands of tech-bloggers through some shady avenues there are no surprises left in store. In fact, even that attractive outer-shell has some impressive hidden functionality.

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  Apple Debuts iPhone 4, Available on June 24 originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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