Mobile Software

Stealthy mobile phone software concern
Ninemsn
Technology bloggers are asking if our mobile phones are spying on us after
a security researcher said a piece of software hidden on millions of phones
was recording virtually everything people do with them. Amid a broad
outcry, US Senator Al Franken is ...
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Blumenthal questions Carrier IQ over mobile tracking software practices
Stamford Plus Magazine
... concern over research by a Connecticut resident and multiple news
reports that the company's software - installed on many mobile devices
without knowledge or consent - is tracking and storing data on users'
whereabouts and mobile phone activity. ...
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Oxygen Software Responds to Wikileaks Accusations of Spying
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
On December 1st, WikiLeaks, a non-profit association of anonymous
journalists defending the human rights, published an interactive map
featuring countries that are spying on mobile users. WikiLeaks listed
Oxygen Software as one of the vendors supplying ...
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Sen. Al Franken to cellphone companies: Explain data being tracked
Boston Herald
A company called Carrier IQ developed the software in question. But Franken
said Carrier IQ told him the software was modified and installed by phone
manufacturers and mobile phone service providers. One of the companies
Franken contacted, HTC, ...
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Sovereign Dynamics Launches Global Feed - Unique Geo-tagged Mobile News App
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Independent mobile software development company Sovereign Dynamics adds
"Global Feed" to the list of innovative and exciting news apps for the
Android Market (also coming to iOS App Store next month). The app features
an interactive 3D globe that ...
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`User-tracking software secretly installed on smartphones`
동아일보
Mobile telecommunications service providers in the US have collected
information on subscribers` phone records, text messages and locations
through the software Carrier IQ, which was embedded in 140 million
smartphones without user consent. ...
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Carrier IQ Unfairly Targeted, Researchers Say
TPM
Mobile phone intelligence company Carrier IQ's self-named tracking software
doesn't record the contents of a user's data and is being unfairly targeted
by the media and hysterical users, according to several security
researchers who have conducted ...
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Privacy, security, mobility
SDTimes.com (blog)
Apple says it will phase out use of Carrier IQ software. RIM has responded
to reports that the software runs on BlackBerry phones with a denial. AT&T,
Sprint, and T-Mobile install Carrier IQ software on phones they resell,
while Verizon claims not to ...
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