Don’t mind letting Google watch your every click while browsing the web? Awesome, because the folks in Mountain View want to pay you for letting them do just that. The company is recruiting panelists for a project it’s calling Screenwise, a program that will give the internet behemoth more insight into how the general public uses the interwebs day in and day out.
Don’t mind letting Google watch your every click while browsing the web? Awesome, because the folks in Mountain View want to pay you for letting them do just that. The company is recruiting panelists for a project it’s calling Screenwise, a program that will give the internet behemoth more insight into how the general public uses the interwebs day in and day out.
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Google Screenwise panel will pay you to track your every move online
One of the (many) reasons augmented reality apps haven’t caught on is because they usually require markers or special objects for their tracking software to work. Unlike this Obvious Engine system which can easily track anything in a scene
One of the (many) reasons augmented reality apps haven’t caught on is because they usually require markers or special objects for their tracking software to work. Unlike this Obvious Engine system which can easily track anything in a scene
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Slick Augmented Reality Demo Works On Any Object Without Special Markers
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This Plugin puts the Tracking Code for Google Analytics into your site right before the footer and you can configure multiple analytic codes. Google Analytics Tracking Code looks like this “UA-XXXXXXX-X” . You can register at http://www.google.com/analytics/ to get a tracking code.
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The US Supreme Court ruled today that police must first obtain a search warrant before using GPS devices to track a suspect’s vehicle, agreeing with an earlier appeals court ruling but rejecting the Obama administration’s position on the case. In delivering the decision, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the court holds “that the government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a ‘search,’” and therefore violated the individual’s Fourth Amendment rights. The case itself concerned a Washington DC nightclub owner and suspected drug dealer, Antoine Jones, who had his car’s movements monitored for a month and was eventually sentenced to life in prison, only to see that conviction overturned by the aforementioned appeals court on the grounds that the police did not have a search warrant when they placed the GPS tracking device on his vehicle
The US Supreme Court ruled today that police must first obtain a search warrant before using GPS devices to track a suspect’s vehicle, agreeing with an earlier appeals court ruling but rejecting the Obama administration’s position on the case. In delivering the decision, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the court holds “that the government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a ‘search,’” and therefore violated the individual’s Fourth Amendment rights. The case itself concerned a Washington DC nightclub owner and suspected drug dealer, Antoine Jones, who had his car’s movements monitored for a month and was eventually sentenced to life in prison, only to see that conviction overturned by the aforementioned appeals court on the grounds that the police did not have a search warrant when they placed the GPS tracking device on his vehicle
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Supreme Court says police must get search warrant to use GPS tracking devices
It’s been exactly a month since we received word that Sprint was disabling Carrier IQ software installed on its carrier-branded devices, and this week we witnessed a firmware update on the HTC EVO 3D that quietly removes all traces of the tracking software completely. Neither company was forthcoming about this particular feature disappearing — we have a hunch they’re trying to keep the public from being reminded that CIQ ever happened — but Android Authority discovered that both HTC IQAgent and IQRD were completely gone after the update. So add this to the list of the build’s other performance enhancements, and here’s to hoping that we’ll start seeing a plethora of other devices getting similar releases.
It’s been exactly a month since we received word that Sprint was disabling Carrier IQ software installed on its carrier-branded devices, and this week we witnessed a firmware update on the HTC EVO 3D that quietly removes all traces of the tracking software completely. Neither company was forthcoming about this particular feature disappearing — we have a hunch they’re trying to keep the public from being reminded that CIQ ever happened — but Android Authority discovered that both HTC IQAgent and IQRD were completely gone after the update. So add this to the list of the build’s other performance enhancements, and here’s to hoping that we’ll start seeing a plethora of other devices getting similar releases.
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HTC EVO 3D: poof, no more Carrier IQ software
We know, it’s the new year and you just made a resolution to start going to the gym regularly… for the fifth year in a row. But you really mean it this time, don’t you
We know, it’s the new year and you just made a resolution to start going to the gym regularly… for the fifth year in a row. But you really mean it this time, don’t you
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Gympact iPhone app offers cash rewards to gym-goers, penalizes inattendance
Sprint may have stood by its use of Carrier IQ on its smartphones when the furor over the software erupted a couple of weeks back — while insisting all along that it was only used for network diagnostic purposes — but it’s now apparently had a change of heart. In a statement to Mobile Burn , Sprint says that it has “weighed customer concerns and we have disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic information and data is no longer being collected,” adding that it’s now “further evaluating options regarding this diagnostic software as well as Sprint’s diagnostic needs.” The carrier also reasserted that it has never used the software to examine users’ personal information, and that it hasn’t been used for targeted advertising or profiling customers
Sprint may have stood by its use of Carrier IQ on its smartphones when the furor over the software erupted a couple of weeks back — while insisting all along that it was only used for network diagnostic purposes — but it’s now apparently had a change of heart. In a statement to Mobile Burn , Sprint says that it has “weighed customer concerns and we have disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic information and data is no longer being collected,” adding that it’s now “further evaluating options regarding this diagnostic software as well as Sprint’s diagnostic needs.” The carrier also reasserted that it has never used the software to examine users’ personal information, and that it hasn’t been used for targeted advertising or profiling customers
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Sprint says it has disabled Carrier IQ on its devices
It’s been two weeks since the CarrierIQ story caught the eye of Senator Al Franken, who swiftly put his fist down and began demanding answers from the companies that admitted to allowing the tracking software on their handsets, as well as CarrierIQ itself.
It’s been two weeks since the CarrierIQ story caught the eye of Senator Al Franken, who swiftly put his fist down and began demanding answers from the companies that admitted to allowing the tracking software on their handsets, as well as CarrierIQ itself.
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Senator Al Franken gets answers regarding CarrierIQ, still not satisfied
Holy data privacy scandal! Over the last week the news that Carrier IQ has been tracking millions of smartphone users without their knowledge has ballooned into a full-blown clusternut. Carrier IQ, huh? Sounds nefarious.
Holy data privacy scandal! Over the last week the news that Carrier IQ has been tracking millions of smartphone users without their knowledge has ballooned into a full-blown clusternut. Carrier IQ, huh? Sounds nefarious.
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What Is Carrier IQ?
As you may have heard last week, two US malls (the Promenade Temecula in Southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Virginia) decided to conduct a little experiment this holiday shopping season, in which they employed some cellphone-tracking technology in an effort to learn more about individuals’ shopping patterns. That technology came from Path Intelligence, which has previously outfitted UK malls with the system, and assures folks that it only detects cellphone signals, and is unable to gather phone numbers or other personal data.
As you may have heard last week, two US malls (the Promenade Temecula in Southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Virginia) decided to conduct a little experiment this holiday shopping season, in which they employed some cellphone-tracking technology in an effort to learn more about individuals’ shopping patterns. That technology came from Path Intelligence, which has previously outfitted UK malls with the system, and assures folks that it only detects cellphone signals, and is unable to gather phone numbers or other personal data.
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Malls halt cellphone-tracking experiment after complaint from Senator Schumer
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