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Articles tagged with: Privacy and Gps
EU-Funded Study Warns of GPS Phone Privacy Concerns
At a time when privacy issues are higher on the news agenda than ever, the EU-funded Network of Excellence FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) is urging users to safeguard their digital identity and privacy, especially when using mobile technologies. The team is particularly concerned that, in the wake of Apple's ‘Thanks a Billion' campaign to celebrate the billionth download from the App Store, consumers are still not aware of the potential privacy issues involved with these technologies. more
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Eight Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2009 and 2010
..nges. 802.11n - 802.11n boosts Wi-Fi data rates to between 100 Mbps and 300 Mbps, and the multiple-input, multiple-output technology used by 802.11n offers the potential for better coverage in some situations. 802.11n is likely to b more
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Maintaining Personal Privacy in a GPS-Device World
..tholic University of Leuven, in Belgium, warns that we should take care of our privacy. It is now possible to obtain the precise geographical location of any mobile phone user at any time, explains Gadzheva. However, she points out that with the more
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Using Mobile Phones to Monitor Road Traffic Congestion
..nto the system so no data that can be tied to a particular phone will be created, transmitted or stored. This "Privacy by Design" system strips the traffic data from individual device identifiers, uses banking-grade encryption techn more
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Growing demand for location-based services in advanced mobile markets
..nt (US$165 million) of the total Asia-Pac revenues in 2007. "Concerns regarding privacy infringement, erroneous detection and interoperability issues, high roaming charges, and the lack of global positioning system (GPS)-enabled handsets have more
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Teenagers are Shaping and Reshaping Their Wireless World
.. and control," said Joseph Porus, Vice President & Chief Architect, Technology Group, Harris Interactive. "Teens in this study are crying for personalization and control of exactly what a wireless device or plan can do for them.&q more
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Location-based Mobile Social Networking Will Generate Revenues of $3.3 Billion by 2013
The recent emergence of location-based mobile social networking services offered by providers such as GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt is revolutionizing social networking by allowing users to share real-life experiences via geo-tagged user-generated multimedia content, exchange recommendations about places, identify nearby friends and set up ad hoc face to face meetings. more
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Telstra Launches Location Tracking Service
..elstra mobile coverage area. The service gives users full control of their privacy by ensuring that customers must accept an invitation to share their location before proceeding. Consumers can control whether they wish to be located or not and u more
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Experimental Phone Network Uses Virtual Sticky Notes
... Since mobile phones are transmitting data - including location - back to a central server, users must trust the administrator to keep this information private. Roy Choudhury believes that these issues can be addressed by assigning different m more
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Sprint Nextel Loses Patent Lawsuit
..its verdict and awarded Enovsys past damages of $2.78 million. The patents relate to a privacy system used to protect and manage the disclosure of the precise location of a userÃ's cell phone (e.g., the phoneÃ's GPS position). Enovsys had alle more
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