14 December 2011 Last updated at 12:41 GMT Google’s Android platform is used on a large number of smartphones and tablet devices Google has removed 22 applications from its Android Market after they were discovered to contain fraudulent software. Apps posing as popular third-party software such as Angry Birds tricked users into sending premium text [...]
Tag: Phone
December 16, 2011
December 14, 2011
Attendants want ’30 Rock’ off flights
(CNN) — The NBC sitcom “30 Rock” lost some flight attendant fans after actor Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight when he refused to turn off his phone. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants requested Tuesday that the airline remove the show from all flights after last week’s incident at Los Angeles [...]
December 14, 2011
Ban drivers from using cellphones at the wheel, US urged
US safety investigators have called for a nationwide ban on texting and cell phone use while driving, a prohibition that would include certain applications of hands-free technology becoming more common in new cars. The National Transportation Safety Board recommendation goes beyond measures proposed or imposed to date by US regulators and states, most of which [...]
December 9, 2011
Millions of drivers won’t hang up, study shows
Washington (CNN) — Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. A federal study says one in 20 drivers observed at any given moment is holding a mobile phone to his or her ear, and that almost one in 100 can be observed sending a text message or otherwise manipulating a digital device. At the typical daylight moment, [...]
December 8, 2011
Baldwin’s Twitter account offline
8 December 2011 Last updated at 12:50 GMT Mr Baldwin’s final tweet was a link to a YouTube video of a classical concert The Twitter account of the Hollywood and TV actor, Alec Baldwin, has been deactivated. Mr Baldwin had been a prolific tweeter and made headlines this week after writing that he had been [...]
December 7, 2011
Alec Baldwin removed from plane for playing with his phone
Alec Baldwin says he was kicked off a plane on Tuesday at Los Angeles International Airport after having words with a flight attendant over an “addicting” word game he was playing on his cellphone. The 30 Rock actor was asked to get off a New York City-bound flight for playing Words with Friends while the [...]
December 3, 2011
The new cyber-industrial complex spying on us | Pratap Chatterjee
We live digital lives now, flitting from Facebook to YouTube, checking our iPhones and BlackBerries, and chatting with our loved ones on Skype. Very few of us worry too much about tweeting our personal opinions on politics or chatting with a new social network “friend” on the other side of the world, whom we barely [...]
December 2, 2011
Carrier IQ ‘has questions to answer’ over possible data breach – Franken
US senator Al Franken has asked software maker Carrier IQ to respond to claims by an independent security researcher that its products collect and transmit potentially sensitive data about millions of mobile phone users. Carrier IQ makes software that companies including ATT and Sprint Nextel instal in mobile devices. It runs in the background, transmitting [...]
December 2, 2011
November 25, 2011
US telecoms merger under threat
24 November 2011 Last updated at 20:59 GMT The combined mobile phone company would be the biggest in the US US telecoms giant ATT and Deutsche Telekom have cast doubt over the $39bn (£25bn) sale of T-Mobile USA by withdrawing their merger application to the industry regulator. ATT also said it would include a $4bn [...]
October 27, 2011
Goldman Sachs man on fraud charge
26 October 2011 Last updated at 20:52 GMT Mr Gupta arrested at his home in Connecticut and is due to appear in a New York court later on Wednesday A former director at investment bank Goldman Sachs has pleaded not guilty to charges of securities fraud relating to a hedge fund insider trading case. Charged [...]
October 26, 2011
FBI detains ex-Goldman Sachs man
26 October 2011 Last updated at 15:28 GMT Mr Gupta arrested at his home in Connecticut and is due to appear in a New York court later on Wednesday A former director at investment bank Goldman Sachs has been taken into custody on charges relating to a hedge fund insider trading case. Rajat Gupta, 62, [...]
October 26, 2011
October 25, 2011
James Murdoch a ‘dead man walking’ following shareholder vote
Forty-eight months ago James Murdoch‘s eventual assumption of the top job at his father’s News Corporation seemed only a year or two away. But even his close allies now concede that he is unlikely to take over when Rupert Murdoch, 80, steps aside, after it emerged that a majority of the company’s non-family shareholders voted [...]