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With Speeksy, Facebook Users Can Meet New People (Just Don’t Call It “Online Dating!”)
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How do you meet new people in today’s digital age, without over-exposing yourself the creeps, trolls and spammers? The answer, perhaps, is build a social service on top of Facebook, leveraging your network, your friends of friends and shared interests to form connections with people you don’t know. That’s what...
iPhone owners now account for 80% of top 10% heaviest data users: Report
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Owners of Apple’s iPhone are now more data hungry than any other smartphone users, eclipsing users of Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone devices, to account for 80% of the top 10% of heaviest data users. That’s according to a new report from technology research firm Analysys Mason, which examines smartphone...
Twitter's Giving You Your Data Back, Enables Archiving
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In a move that joins some other social nets, Twitter is turning on the ability to download all your tweets--ever. Twitter is enabling users to download an archive of all the content they've transmitted through its social networking systems. Simply by visiting their Twitter profile on the web, then...
AT&T Says Throttling of Unlimited Data Users Done on Case-by-Case Basis
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Last week, a firestorm erupted over the publicization of AT&T policies that can result in users on grandfathered unlimited data plans seeing their data speeds throttled after burning through as little as 2 GB in a month. Early reports on the policy, which went into effect last October as intended...
Scanadu's Scout tricorder and companion app detect what ails you, arrive in 2013 for $150
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The quest to create a tricorder began many years ago, when such a device was but a figment of Gene Roddenberry's vivid imagination. However, his vision has crept ever closer to reality in recent years, with many researchers crafting devices capable of gathering human health data and the creation...
AT&T Says Throttling Policy Isn't as Bad as You Think
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Last year AT&T warned smartphone customers with unlimited data plans that it may temporarily slow their Internet connection speeds if they were in the top 5 percent of heaviest data users. Only recently have some customers begun receiving notifications about their data connections being throttled, and AT&T says the policy...
AT&T declares war on unlimited data users
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AT&T’s stance on unlimited data is once again in the spotlight as a new wave of smartphone users cry foul over the carrier’s questionable policies. The nation’s No.2 carrier does not currently offer an unlimited data plan to its smartphone subscribers. Instead, there are three available data plans that include “soft”...
HTC: we're upgrading our HTCSense cloud - by deleting all your data
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Users advised to download copy of data before it is deleted after 30 April, in move made without any warning to registered usersHTC is shutting down its free HTCSense.com cloud service in order to "renovate" it – a move which may be the first time a company has destroyed a...
Unlimited Data Throttled By AT&T, Verizon? Here’s How To Take Them To Court And Hopefully Win
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Throttling is a dirty trick employed by wireless data providers. The carriers say that it’s a necessary tactic to cap heavy data users seemingly hoarding all the available bandwidth. Several studies say that’s nonsense, explaining the top percentage of users do not consume that much more data than the average...
O2 joins the portable WiFi movement with the launch of its Pocket Hotspot device
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O2 is taking on the likes of 3′s Mifi with the launch of its Pocket Hotspot today. These little devices provide WiFi access on the go wherever users have a strong enough 3G signal. O2′s offering enables up to five devices to connect simultaneously to share mobile internet access. Good news for people...
T-Mobile gives businesses the option of getting throttled or paying overage fees
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T-Mobile on Wednesday said that business users who consume more than their plan’s monthly allotment of HSPA+ data now have two options: They can either have their data throttled down to lower speeds and pay no overage fee, or they can pay overage fees in exchange for keeping their...
T-Mobile cuts the strings on new data plan, goes fully unlimited
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The carrier is following in the path of Sprint Nextel and targeting heavy data users with no caps or throttling. [Read more]...
Kicksend Releases An Android App For Sharing All Your Photos, Videos, and More
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Last December, file-sharing startup Kicksend went mobile, with an iPhone app designed to enable easy sharing of photos and videos that are captured from your mobile device. Now, six months later, the startup is taking that same functionality and making it available to Android users as well. Kicksend, which was...
Bitcasa brings 'infinite' cloud storage to Android & Win 8 with new apps, iOS coming soon
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Cloud storage startup Bitcasa has released new mobile apps for Android and Windows 8 platforms, with iOS and Mac apps coming in January, the company announced Tuesday morning. Bitcasa offers a back-up solution that’s a bit different from peers such Dropbox, SugarSync, and Google Drive. Essentially, Bitcasa can back...
Ancestry.com to acquire 1000memories to expand photo digitizing
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Ancestry.com, the online family history resource, has acquired 1000memories, a San Francisco-based startup that helps users digitize old family photos. With 1000memories, Ancestry.com will expand each user’s ability to contribute photos of family members and add images to family trees. 1000memories was founded in 2010 from the summer batch at...
Today in Tech: How Facebook is using you
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Fortune’s curated selection of tech stories from the long weekend. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day. For the first time ever, football fans could catch the Super Bowl online, too. Photo: NFL.com * NBC streamed the Super Bowl online for the first time ever, and for...
Facebook and Google may be forced to ask permission to use personal data
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Users must be able to consciously agree to data processing - or reject it, says EU proposal for tougher consumer protectionInternet companies such as Facebook and Google may have to get further permission to use information if European Union lawmakers give users more control over their personal data.EU lawmakers want...
For Sale: Your Old Tweets
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Twitter is the latest social network to turn a buck with content you created. The company sold two years worth of old tweets to Datasift, a marketing data firm. Datasift will make the tweets and other data, including the locations of where people were when they used Twitter, available to...
This Former Apple Manager Wants To Help The iPad Conquer Big Business
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Like it or not, people are bringing their iPads to work. This creates all kinds of headaches for IT departments. MokaFive wants to give these poor folks a couple of aspirin. The company was founded six years ago by former McAfee CEO Dale Fuller. He did a stint as the...
Nextdoor Raises $18.6 Million From Benchmark, Greylock in First Major Funding Round
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Nextdoor, the private social network focused on neighborhoods, announced its first major venture capital funding round on Tuesday morning, raising $18.6 million from Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners, Shasta Ventures and DAG Ventures, among others. Fresh from presenting at Allen and Company’s highly exclusive Sun Valley conference earlier this month, CEO...
T-Mobile May Have Killed The Smartphone Contract, But It Doesn't Save You Money
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In the United States, the smartphone contract is king. T-Mobile, the smallest of the major American wireless carriers, wants to end the reign of two-year contracts, phone subsidies and early termination fees. It even argues it can save you money in the process. Well, at least part of that is true....
AT&T should be investigated for ‘fraudulent’ data policies, public interest group says
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AT&T on Monday announced a new plan that will let developers pay for the data used by their apps and services. The data consumed by apps that make use of this new feature would not apply toward a user’s data cap. The new service was pitched as a way...
Verizon Planning to End Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans With LTE Switch
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U.S. cellular carrier Verizon is planning to move its customers who still have unlimited data plans for their smartphones to its new family data-share plans as customers switch to LTE data plans. The iPhone was initially offered with unlimited data plans when it launched on Verizon several years ago, but...
Verizon Aims New Data Package at Global Travelers
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Aiming to make international cellphone use slightly less excruciatingly expensive, Verizon Wireless announced a new $25 plan that gives users 100 megabytes of data when traveling; it will be available in 120 countries. Once users have gobbled up that allotment, they can buy another 100MB for the same $25. The...
Throttling unlimited data plans is pointless, study finds
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AT&T’s questionable policy with regard to unlimited smartphone data plan holders recently found its way back into the limelight following a new wave of subscriber complaints. The nation’s No.2 carrier no longer offers an unlimited data plan to smartphone users, though many subscribers on its network still have grandfathered...
AT&T Revamps Throttling Policy, Only Slows Unlimited Users above 3GB/Month
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AT&T is retooling its throttling policy with regards to users with unlimited data plans, originally implemented last year. Instead of throttling customers on a case-by-case basis, users are going to be slowed after a fixed amount of data usage each month. 3G/HSPA+ users with unlimited data plans will be slowed...
T-Mobile announces iPhone 5 for $99 down, available starting April 12
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As expected, T-Mobile has just officially announced it will be carrying the iPhone 5 as part of its ‘Uncarrier’ event today in New York City to unveil its new no-contract, no subsidy pricing plans. According to the company’s press release, the iPhone 5 will be available Friday, April 12 for...
How Verizon found a child pornographer in its cloud
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Cloud-based storage services are no doubt useful. They can back up your personal data and keep it from being lost if your system crashes. They can share your data across multiple computers. But cloud-based services are increasingly checking data users are uploading for illegal content—child pornography in particular. When...
The iPhone 5 Should Again Deliver an Improved Antenna
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The iPhone 5's slight increased in height, combined with Apple's other design changes, should improve signal reception according to Spencer Webb, antenna expert and owner of AntennaSys. Webb wrote extensively about the AntennaGate issues with the original iPhone 4. Because the iPhone 5 is taller, Webb explained to MacRumors, it...
Clauses in AT&T Contracts Have Always Provided for Limits on 'Unlimited' Data Plans
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A number of customers have expressed outrage and disappointment at AT&T's various efforts at throttling users with older "unlimited" data plans. The most recent change slows unlimited data users to download speeds of 256 Kbps after using 3GB of data. Several Twitter users felt that AT&T was violating their contract...
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