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Siri secretly stores your questions for 2 years

Posted April 29, 2013 By David
Twitt
What exactly Siri does with your data isn’t really that clear, although Apple has confirmed that it retains users’ questions for up to 2 years. 

SiriApple said Siri, which needs to be connected to the internet to function, sends every users’ queries to Apple.

Apple revealed this information after the question was raised and highlighted the fact that the privacy statement for Siri wasn’t very clear about how long that information is kept or what would be done with it.

Technically Apple keeps Siri user data for six months, associating that data with the user. Read the remainder of this entry »

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Facebook now speaking with Apple about Home for iPhone which has only been available for Android phones

Posted April 17, 2013 By David
Twitt

Facebook is speaking with Apple about developing a version of its new mobile software for the iPhone, in a strategy to grow revenue from the increasing number of users who access the social network on smartphones.

facebook iphoneAfter debuting the software, called Home, for Google’s Android operating system earlier this month, the operator of the world’s biggest social-networking service is speaking to Apple and Microsoft about expanding to other platforms, said Adam Mosseri, director of product at Facebook. The talks are ongoing and nothing has been finalised, he said.

Now that the majority of users access Facebook via mobile devices, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is looking for ways to keep them engaged longer and coaxing more advertisers to pay to place promotions. While Google’s Android software powered about 70 per cent of smartphones worldwide last year, Apple’s iOS operating system commanded about 21 per cent, according to Gartner. Read the remainder of this entry »

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New iPhone on the horizon mid-year

Posted April 10, 2013 By David
Twitt

Apple is poised for a possible US release (June-September) of the it’s next iPhone.

iPhone iPhone iPhoneIt’s uncertain whether it will be the iPhone 5S.

Apple is also reportedly working on a cheaper iPhone model that could win it some market share in developing countries.

The iPhone 5 costs around $US600, and while Apple maintains older iPhones in production, even those aren’t cheap enough to compete effectively against low-end smartphones running Google’s Android software. Read the remainder of this entry »

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Facebook launches software suite for Android

Posted April 5, 2013 By David
Twitt

Facebook has launched new software for Android smartphones that makes the Social Network the home screen.

Facebook-on-AndroidCEO Mark Zuckerberg said the new software would make Facebook the home screen of Android phones, and allow the devices to be “designed around people and not apps”.

“We’re not building a phone and we’re not building an operating system, but we are building something that’s a lot deeper than an app,” Zuckerberg told a gathering at the company’s headquarters in Silicon Valley.

Facebook called the new software “a new way to turn your Android phone into a great, living, social phone”. Read the remainder of this entry »

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