About 19 percent of cell sites in the area hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy were still out of service on Thursday morning as recovery was slowed by other network failures and power shortages, according to the U.S. Federal Communications ...
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Mobile carriers and app providers do not consistently or clearly disclose to customers how they use location information and other personal data, according to a new report from government auditor the U.S. Government Accountability Office ...
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Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy knocked out mobile, phone and cable service in many parts of the eastern U.S. on Monday, with about one in four cell sites affected in the hardest-hit band of the country between Virginia and Massachusetts, ...
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Computerworld - Individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy in historical cell phone location data collected and maintained by phone companies, a federal prosecutor said in oral arguments Monday before a three-judge panel from the ...
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CIOs should stop worrying about BYOD according to analyst Gartner. Instead they should focus on technology transformation. The analyst company is urging CIOs to focus on technology-led business transformational change, instead of ...
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Some wireless and wired communications services downed by Hurricane Sandy have been restored over the past 24 hours, but FCC officials said Wednesday afternoon that several serious outages remain in New York, New Jersey and some other hard ...
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The software allows stalkers to continuously track a person's whereabouts. But the US Congress's Senate judiciary committee has approved a bill that makes it a crime for companies to make and intentionally operate such stalking apps. ...
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Websites,mobile apps and online advertising networks targeting children will be required to follow new privacy regulations,including getting a parent's permission before collecting geo-location information and photographs from kids,under ...
Tags: privacy regulations, FTC, COPPA
When users install Google Maps on their iPhone, the option to share location data with Google is switched on by default. By doing this, Google violates European data protection law, according to a German data protection watchdog. Google ...
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Sirqul has spent the past year building solutions focused on social mobile location solutions. When phone calls came in earlier this week from a former co-worker and friend requesting information on how to help volunteers in the New York ...
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Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy knocked out mobile, phone and cable service in many parts of the eastern U.S. on Monday, with about one in four cell sites affected in the hardest-hit band of the country between Virginia and Massachusetts, ...
Tags: Hurricane, Sandy, Storm, Verizon, Wirelines, mobile, phone, cable service
LONDON, ENGLAND, August 24, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- GeoPlace has announced that it has secured the backing of the Society of IT Management (Socitm), UK Location, the Local Government Association (LGA) and Ordnance Survey, as Award ...
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BitDefender Labs has discovered Android malware that regularly broadcasts the location of the infected mobile device to a remote server. What the malware creators intend to do with the privacy-invading information is not clear. The app ...
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Skyhook introduced on Wednesday a new version of its location engine for mobile apps that it said will allow smartphones to determine a user's location once a minute throughout the day without draining the battery. Maintaining constant ...
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Virginia’s public transportation system Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission (PRTC) has selected Trapeze to provide a new intelligent transportation system. Under the contract, Trapeze will provide a solution which ...
Tags: Intelligent Transportation System, Trapeze's solution, CAD/AVL