Apple's just spoken up publicly on the matter of iPhones storing location data. "Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone.
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Feed SubscriptionWhy You Will Want Apple, Google To Track You
The dust-up over Apple and Google's location tracking leaves out an important group of people: those who want to be tracked.
Read More »How to Use Augmented Reality in Advertising
Augmented reality , or AR, may finally be coming of age. Particularly for Millennials, defined as those born in the 1980s and whose lives revolve around being constantly connected to technology (Blackberries, iPhones, Facebook, Twitter, video games, and more), AR offers a serious opportunity for marketers to reach these important consumers. With augmented reality, marketers can take the physical world and combine it with the digital world, giving both users and brands the ability to connect even further with a product before, during and after making a purchase.
Read More »Cisco’s Virtual Doctor Will See You Now
Deepak Chandrasekar gets his eye examined by internist Seema Sangwan (on screen). Nurse Xenia Khesin assists.
Read More »What Privacy? Roughly 55% Of Smartphone Users Concerned With Location-Sharing Apps
You can't download an app these days without it asking for your location--and not just on check-in services like Foursquare and Gowalla. Google Maps, Instagram, Twitter , Square, MenuPages, Shazam--they all want to know exactly where you are whenever you're using the app. Heck, services like Google Latitude won't even let you decline to share your location--it'll just put you through an endless cycle of notifications, almost demanding you to accept its terms.
Read More »Start-ups Serving Start-ups
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today.
Read More »First Came iPhone’s Thunder, Now GPS Makers Ride The Lightning
With the rise of GPS-enabled touchscreen phones like the iPhone, you'd think that the future for stand-alone GPS makers looks bleak. Except that these companies are being surprisingly agile, and are embracing smartphones to make the best GPS navigators ever.
Read More »The Best Industries for Starting a Business Right Now
Job hunting can be a bit easier when someone else is helping out. Temp agencies and staffing services have shown an 18 percent year-over-year growth rate, according to AnythingResearch.com.
Read More »Location-Aware Apps
At South by Southwes t Interactive this year, one couldn't walk 10 feet without hearing about a new app that connected you to people, places, or deals near your present location. Many, like the location-aware app game Dokobots, use Foursquare as a template. Others, such as Yobongo or Meet Gatsby, match users up with people nearby to chat with, ask advice from, or meet
Read More »Smartphone’s Tracking Geodata May Be as Personal as Your DNA
Lawmakers in Europe are concentrating their efforts on one aspect of online privacy that may be being overlooked in the rush to "check in" everywhere, and are suggesting your real-time (and historic) geo-tracking data may be as personal as DNA. Digital privacy is seriously in the spotlight at the moment--and in the U.S
Read More »Kevin Rose Thinks We Need Another Idea Incubator, And He Might Be Right
Ex-Digg brainiac (by which we mean inventor and CEO) Kevin Rose has got a new baby: Milk. It's an idea incubator, specifically behaving like a development lab for "out there" ideas. It's targeting the mobile Net.
Read More »New Smartphone Security Apps
Security for smartphones is crucial, now that so many of us use them to make business calls, check work e-mail, and store information. We sampled several apps designed to take the risk out of computing on your phone.
Read More »4 Tips for Conducting a Job Interview Using Skype
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Read More »How to Start a Yoga Business
Have you considered starting a yoga business of your own? It takes hard work and dedication, just like the practice of yoga itself.
Read More »Apple Rumor Roundup: New MobileMe, More and Better Location Apps, Smart TV
The Apple rumor mill grinds ever on, and has turned up new hints about the future of MobileMe , location apps, and that Apple TV story (again).
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