iPhone Tracking Owners' Location

Researchers have recently come upon that Apple's iPhone is tracking and recording your location coordinate along with the time you were in that certain place.  The iPhone can track down the exact longitude and latitude of the locations that you have been.  These locations on some devices have been store for more than a year for some users.  

Once the iPhone is plugged into the owners computer or any computer, the locations get synced to the
 computer.  This might not seem like a big deal at first but once you start to think about what this means, it could potentially lead to identity theft, or credit card information theft.  This raises a lot of privacy concerns for many iPhone users.

Although, when you get to thinking even more about your locations possibly getting released to the public, is it really a big deal?  Yes the credit card and identity theft are major concerns but at the moment, many phone users, not just iPhone users, are posting their current locations to places such as Gowalla and FourSquare.  We have also ran into instances similar to this with Google and their "Latitude" system in 2009.  The "Latitude" program allowed cell phone owners to enable their cell phones to give out the details of their locations to "trusted" contacts.  While this raised a privacy concern, Google claimed that users had to specifically choose who their location data was available to.

Another reason this should not be a big concern for users is because cell phone providers are already tracking phone locations.  But from what we know at the moment, these records are only available to law enforcement.  So what is Apple using with this location information?  Could it be used to spy on your family, friends, or just a random person?  Yes, it could but I honestly do not think that this is why Apple is tracing the locations.  They are most likely just using the information for advertising to the public and not necessarily selling the information or giving it away to agencies.  Apple is most likely not just trying to trace where the users are.  

So what do you think about this incident?  Is this something that will grow and become a big incident or do you think it will just pass over within a month?  Also, do you think this is such a big security flaw even though we never knew about the ability for the iPhone to do this until this week?  

iPod Nano = New Shuffle?

Recently I have been thinking about this possibility. When Apple introduced the new Nano with the little multitouch screen, I took it as a really cool idea, because it was a total different design and as I expected it was going to cause polemic.

One month later, I bought a 16GB iPod Nano and when I used it for the first time I was amazed, it was hard to believe how something so small could be really gorgeous and useful.

After using it for a month I started to miss some other features of the past Nano such as the camera, the 2.2 display and the capacity to play video.

Then, while surfing in the web I found some forums with this non crazy idea. Maybe Apple can replace the iPod Shuffle with the current Nano and go back with the portrait design that in my opinion, is way better.

What do you think? 

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Add Color to the Apple Logo

When we get an iDevice, we can see the nice, fancy, awesome Apple logo at the back of our devices, and let me say that I love to feel the product and see it just how nice it is.

We are fortunate to get some awesome cases for our devices at the stores, but some of these cover the logo on the back, and sometimes we want to change the style of it.

Some people used to disassemble their devices and change the logo on some Macs and now iPads to change the look of those sexy devices and honestly, to me, that was kind of weird.

Now Etsy has designed some awesome stickers for the Apple logo on iPads and Macs, and when one of these stickers is applied to your device, it will look totally cool. It's almost like an iSkin, but this is just a little part of the back.

We can get these stickers for $5.00 dollars approximately online.

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iOS and Android Over the Video Games Market

In the last years, we have seen some incredible games at the App Store from Apple and now we also have games at the Android Market from Google. But before that, we had great portable consoles such as the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP, and currently they continue their own way.

But now with these App Stores we have access to an easier world where with just a tap we can download an incredible game right from our smartphone. So, lets check these statistics.

Mobile analytics service Flurry Analytics has launched a study on the percentage of revenue from mobile platforms in the gaming industry based on 12,000 million records captured from 80,000 applications anonymously iOS and Android. Thedata show the remarkable growth can be seen in the graph you will find on theselines and if already in 2009 the iPhone OS at that time exceeded U.S. to the PSP with 19% versus 11% of the latter, the entry of Android and the evolution of iOS in 2010 further increases the difference.

Sales of games and Android iOS U.S. have increased during 2010 to reach 8% oftotal revenues estimated at 800 million dollars, most of which are the grace, asFlurry, games for iPhone. This cake does not include data for PC games, although these are estimated at 700 million, anything that smartphone and tablets have notalready left behind.

It is clear that 15% iOS and Android have been scratched in notebooks from Sony and Nintendo in 2010 was largely due to a combination of factors, including a family of devices they always have, with uninterrupted access to a growing catalog software with a very low cost or even free supported by advertising or purchasing systems within applications.

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Incase Neoprene Sleeve Review (13" MacBook Pro)

In today's society it seems as though taking a computing device everywhere is necessary. We now have laptops and tablets we carry with us. Investments do need to be protected, so that is where the Incase Neoprene Sleeve comes into play.

This product retails for around $39.95 at the Apple store. This product is just a sleeve; it's not a case. I consider a case to hold many products, not just your laptop. But I love the simplicity of the product. It'd be so easy to get through security in an airport with this sleeve. However, the product doesn't include a handle, which can make carrying the sleeve with your laptop in it.

Find out my full opinion on this product. I encourage you to watch the video above. The one I show in the video is the black color, but the product is available in a variety of colors. Click here to purchase the Incase Neoprene Sleeve.

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