iphone contacts cloud Did you know every iphone app can steal your whole adress book! gadgetzzYesterday, developer Arun Thampi noticed that the Path iPhone app uploads a user’s address book to their server without asking the user first. And by address book, I mean all the phone numbers and addresses and email addresses of everyone in your phone’s address book just gets sent off to Path. And not only that, Path stored that information on its server. To their credit, Path apologized and deleted the data from their server.

But this is a larger problem than just Path. In a post from earlier today, Dustin Curtis reveals the dirty little secret of iPhone developers everywhere.

It’s not really a secret, per se, but there’s a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user’s entire address book, without their permission, to remote servers and then store it for future reference. It’s common practice, and many companies likely have your address book stored in their database. Obviously, there are lots of awesome things apps can do with this data to vastly improve user experience. But it is also a breach of trust and an invasion of privacy.

I did a quick survey of 15 developers of popular iOS apps, and 13 of them told me they have a contacts database with millons of records. One company’s database has Mark Zuckerberg’s cell phone number, Larry Ellison’s home phone number and Bill Gates’ cell phone number. This data is not meant to be public, and people have an expectation of privacy with respect to their contacts.

Any app, from Angry Birds to Fart App 3000, can just grab the information in your address book without asking? Not okay!

 

Some popular apps that use this hidden function: Angry Birds, Facebook, and TextPlus 4 all transmit address book data to a server.

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Iphone survives 82mph Slapshot


In This video you can witness an iphone in a most durable case getting shot with a hockey club, and survive without a scratch!
The case incorporates the company’s favorite shock absorbing substance, Poron XRD and comes in two styles: X Protect and Extreme Grid. They’ll run you $40 each, when they ship at the end of the month.

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Alan Wake for PC Special Edition Revealed

alanwake wherespc Alan Wake for PC Special Edition Revealed gadgetzzMany alan Wake fans never thought it would happen, the Alan Wake PC Collector’s Edition has been revealed by Nordic Games, providing fans with a host of in-game content and other items.

The major additions to the CE are in-game audio commentary, a bonus disc that includes a making of, history documentary and music videos, and The Alan Wake Files 144 page book.

Both the Standard Edition and the Collector’s Edition are due for release at retail on March 2. The digital version of the game is due to arrive on Steam on February 16, with its arrival on other digital retailers soon afterwards. Now all thats missing is halo for Pc!

Boxed Standard Edition Contents:

  • Premium packaging
  • Disc 1: Main game plus both DLCs – “The Signal” and “The Writer”.
  • Disc 2: OST of the game including 13 Tracks (Audio-CD).
  • 6 Post cards with different pictures/scenes from the game.
  • Manual.
  • 1 poster (printed on both sides).
  • 7 stickers with different pictures/scenes/characters from the game.

And inside the Collector’s Edition:

  • Premium packaging.
  • Disc 1: Main game plus both DLCs “The Signal” and “The Writer”; Additionally, the main game of the LCE contains audio commentary and background information by Remedy, which can be switched on in addition to the game.
  • Disc 2: OST of the game including 13 Tracks (Audio-CD).
  • Disc 3: Bonus Disc: History of Remedy, Making of “Alan Wake”, Making of a thriller, music videos by the “Old gods of Asgard”, several trailers to the game, Storyboard (witch concept art) as a movie clip.
  • The “Alan Wake Files”; 144 pages with evidence on the mysterious incidents around Alan Wake and Bright Falls, compiled by the fictitious author Clay Steward (same print format as the game manual).
  • 6 Post cards with different pictures/scenes from the game.
  • Manual.
  • 1 poster (printed on both sides).
  • 7 stickers with different pictures/scenes/characters from the game

 

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