Apple Says Siri’s Abortion Answers Are a Glitch
Jenna Wortham, reporting for the NYT, gets a statement from Apple on the “Siri won’t help you find an abortion clinic” meme:
“Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of
information, and while it can find a lot, it doesn’t always
find what you want,” said Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for
Apple, in a phone interview late Wednesday. [...]
Carrier IQ on iOS
Good investigative work by Grant “chpwn” Paul. iOS includes a Carrier IQ daemon, but it doesn’t seem to log any particularly sensitive information. Nothing like a keylogger or reading SMS messages.
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★ Translation From Corporate Jargon Doublespeak to English of Carrier IQ’s ‘Media Alert’
Said “Media Alert” is available in convenient PDF format here.
Measuring Mobile User Experience Does Matter!
We Got Caught Doing Something We Were Kind of Hoping No One Would Notice and Now We’re Nervously Placing Exclamation Marks at the End of Our Media Alert Headlines!
Carrier IQ would like to clarify some recent press on how our
product is [...]
Facebook and Privacy
Farhad Manjoo, writing for Slate:
The only sure way to keep something private on Facebook is not to
post it to Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg would never acknowledge this, but I think it will
ultimately benefit both his site and its users if we adjusted our
expectations about “privacy” there. You should approach
Facebook as cautiously as you would approach your open [...]
Speaking of Shit-Ass Websites
MG Siegler on Business Insider’s practice of breaking articles — articles — into 12-page-view “slideshows”.
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Shit-Ass Websites
Jim Dalrymple:
It got me thinking about some of the other sites I visit, so I did
some tests loading the homepage of each site and here’s what I
found. There are three stats for each site — the number of http
requests, the size of the page and how long it took the page to
download.
Send me a “Get [...]
And the Bidding for Yahoo Begins
Geoff Duncan:
Yahoo’s current strategy seems to be offering a minority stake
of just under 20 percent of the company using PIPE transactions —
Private Investment in a Public Equity. If Yahoo keeps the
proportion of the deal under 20 percent of the company, Yahoo’s
board of directors can approve the deal without putting it to a
shareholder vote. PIPE transactions [...]
Who Needs Competition?
Linda Loyd, reporting for The Philadelphia Inquirer:
U.S. Sen. Robert Casey (D., Pa.) has urged the chief executive
officer of US Airways Group Inc. to rescind the airline’s fare
hike planned for flights between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
in early January, when only US Airways will fly between the
two cities.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Tuesday that when Southwest
Airlines Co. drops its [...]
WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Experiment Game
Try and you will succeed
If you’re anything like most of us here, you probably like to tinker with things. Most gadget freaks do.
We’re not really happy until we’ve taken something apart to see how it really works, often (at least in my case) with little idea as to how to put it back together again. [...]
Spotify with apps pictures and hands-on
App Finder tried and tested
According to Spotify “There’s a new world inside Spotify” and that means apps. But do you want them, are they any good, or is the music streaming service just jumping on the apps bandwagon in an attempt to make us all believe that it is something more than just a streaming [...]
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