Prospective customers were offered a choice between an ad-free service for $99 a month or one that tracked user behaviour but cost only $70. Some 80% of sign-ups were for the cheaper plan.
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The Fairphone – A starting point towards fairer products.
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government.
Messenger appears to have more spyware type code in it than I’ve seen in products intended specifically for enterprise surveillance.
Well prior to Edward Snowden, online jihadists were already aware that law enforcement and intelligence agencies were attempting to monitor them.
Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
« Cable companies are famous for high prices and poor service. Several rank as the most hated companies in America. Now, they’re attacking the Internet–their one competitor and our only refuge–with plans to charge websites arbitrary fees and slow (to a crawl) any sites that won’t pay up. If they win, the Internet dies ».
A secret legal battle between the U.S. government and Yahoo over requests for customer data became so acrimonious in 2008 that the government wanted to charge the Internet company $250,000 a day if it didn’t comply.
In other words, Apple hasn’t solved the basic smartwatch dilemma, which is that smart watches use up far more energy than dumb watches, and that there’s nowhere to store that much energy in something the size of a watch.
The Apple watch is a big deal. Not because of the watch but because of the user interface…