theiphoneblog.com - 8/17/2009
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The iPhone Dev-Team take a break from the Jailbreak to throw some light on the issue of 3rd party iPhone apps tracking users’ location. Joey Hess and our friends over at PreCentral.net kicked up a bit of a ruckus last week detailing how the Palm Pre reports users’ location data ...
blog.twitter.com - 8/21/2009
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blog.twitter.com —
Twitter platform developers have been doing innovative work
with location for some time despite having access to...
only a rudimentary level of API support. Most of the location-based projects we see are built using the simple, account-level location ...
(more)
Location, Location, Location
blog.iphone-dev.org - 8/17/2009
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blog.iphone-dev.org —
Last week, Joey Hess revealed that the Palm
Pre running on WebOS uploads very specific information about...
your location and application usage to Palm on a daily basis. Although it’s allowed by the EULA that you must accept to use the Palm Pre, it ...
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Team Blog - A Pinch too much
wired.com - 8/15/2009
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wired.com —
The Palm Pre has been regarded by reviewers
and analysts as possibly the best challenger to Apple...
iPhone but Apple is still ahead. Pre users seem to be not as enthralled with their phone as iPhone users, according to a recent survey which took a ...
(more)
Palm Pre Lags iPhone in Satisfaction Survey
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Dev-Team: Palm Pre May Track User Location, but 3rd Party iPhone Apps Do Too!
The Free iPhone Blog —
The iPhone Dev-Team take a break from the Jailbreak to throw some light on the issue of 3rd party iPhone apps tracking users’ location. Joey Hess and our friends over at PreCentral.net kicked up a bit of a ruckus last week detailing how the Palm Pre reports users’ location data back to Palm HQ. Well, says the Dev-Team: Although we have yet to find an application by Apple that tracks your location, there are certainly … Source: Dev-Team: Palm Pre May Track User Location, but 3rd Party iPhone Apps Do Too! ...
Possibility of Palm Pre location tracker thanks to iPhone third-party app
Phones Review —
... Apparently the iPhone will ask you first before any app is allowed to use your location data, but it keeps on asking so much so that must users will just agree to stop the annoying questions that continue to pop up. For more information visit theiphoneblog.com ...
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