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Am I the only one that has heard..

that has heard about apps like Pandora can steal your information? I was on virus forum and read this:
"I love Pandora. I really couldn't do without it. But I could do without its sending my demographic information, phone ID, and location to eight trackers across six companies. And Pandora's far from the worst offender, the WSJ shows us.
The Journal's report lays bare much of what we already suspected, or outright knew but didn't bother thinking about: iOS and Android apps are having a field day with your personal info. More than half of the 101 popular apps they tested sent your UDID to companies without your awareness or consent. Nearly as many sent your location, and a handful even sent along demographic info and other personal details to advertisers.
It's a small sample size given the hundreds of thousands of apps out there, but it's hard to imagine that the most prominent names just happen to be the most aberrant. And the list of worst offenders also reads like a roll-call of must haves: Pandora. Angry Birds. Netflix. Shazam. Et tu, Yelp?
And yes, it makes perfect sense that apps that deliver location-based information would need to know your location. But the extra step of passing that on to marketers is something a user should at the very least have knowledge of, and should ideally be able to opt out of. Not everyone enjoys highly targeted ads so much that they're willing to compromise their privacy to have them on their phone.
iOS apps shared more data than Android apps, on the whole—somewhat surprising given the rigidity of the App Store approval process compared to Android's looser environment. And there's really nothing you can do to stop it.
There's something Apple and Google could do, though: create privacy policies. Make it abundantly clear to users what information apps are going to take, who they're going to send it to. And if you're feeling really generous this holiday season, give us a chance to opt out."
am i the only one that is worried or is there no need to worry?

welcome to the future buddy.

Yup, if you don't want anyone else knowing your business, don't own a smartphone or go on the internet. No one's info is safe.
It is the double edged sword of being connected to the rest of the world, the rest of the world is connected to you.

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You should be more concerned with people dumpster-diving your trash.

Seriously I'm more afraid of people stealing my mail then stealing my info on the web.
It's common sense for crying out loud.
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People are so concerned with this stuff sometimes. It boggles my mind. What do I care that some company knows what city I'm in.
You know who else knows what city I'm in? Every local shop I go to.
Heck, I used to work for a relatively small company (about a dozen or two locations in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois) and they asked for someone's zip when checking out. This was so they knew where their customer base lived. So if enough people drove from 20 miles away they would know they need to send their ad to more people in that town.
It's not as scary as most think.

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Alcatel-Lucent LightRadio (Sprint's New Move)

So a CNN new report says that a Sprint Spokes Woman indicated that Sprint is looking to expand their network using this Technology.
"Sprint is talking to Alcatel Lucent about this technology and we will be working with them to test and evaluate it," a Sprint spokeswoman said. "We have been aggressive in smaller factor cell sites to help us support the growth in data traffic."
Full Article http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/21/technology/light_radio/index.htm
This seems like a very solid move for Sprint if all works out with this new technology, Cheaper to operate, faster data transmissions, and better signal all round.

Sprints all mixed up Hesses not sleeping well due to the merger news yesterday

Lucent was always forward thinking as a company when they were Bell Labs. Somehow, it's not surprising to me that this idea is coming from Alcatel Lucent's shop.
And that Sprint is thinking about using these devices shows one, that they know they need to upgrade their 'net, and two, they expect to offer unlimited data into the foreseeable future, especially if these towers-in-a-box prove as deployable as they appear.
Good move, Sprint!!

sling said:
Sprints all mixed up Hesses not sleeping well due to the merger news yesterday
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Best analysis I've heard yet.

Sprint is all over the place with news and speculation. I love it!

I'm actually very nervous about the ATT-T-Mobile move. If this move goes down, Sprint is guaranteed to remain the smallest of the major service providers. If this happens, does Sprint lose their wind, or does this kick them in the pants?

freeza said:
Sprint is all over the place with news and speculation. I love it!
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Ya me to lol
Its a mad scramble for a few.
I'm sure Google will soon have their wallet open inviting Heese over for dinner before apple does

Anybody notice that Box resembles the one in 'HellRaiser' ?
Dan better be careful lol

I dont know this has failure written all over it.
If they would just slap a few of these on the towers their problems would be solved
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zikronix said:
I dont know this has failure written all over it.
If they would just slap a few of these on the towers their problems would be solved
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Hahahahahahahahahahha.
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zikronix said:
I dont know this has failure written all over it.
If they would just slap a few of these on the towers their problems would be solved
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Ha Nice played sir. Nice played.

You will like this thread!!!!

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I hope this is not real!!

Awesome LOL

Just because you work at Samsung, doesn't mean you have a Samsung device. So I'm sure it's real.

septix said:
Just because you work at Samsung, doesn't mean you have a Samsung device. So I'm sure it's real.
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Hmm, I'm sure it's bad if they are tweeting from a competitor's device for their own media messages?
Please have some sense...
You are right, maybe not all Samsung employee's have a Samsung device, but as a company procedure social media should be done from Samsung devices?

If this is true then what the people at Samsung are telling us is that " hey we are selling you crap we don't consider is better than an Iphone ".

The S3 wasn't released on May 3rd right?

The bad thing is I remember looking at this very tweet and didn't even notice
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A right **** up there, bit like the footballer Ozil from Real Madrid whom Nike filed a lawsuit against after he was seen play some games wearing Adidas boots, this may not be quite as serious but given that this the official Samsung twitter (shi*ter more like)
and whoever posted this done so from an iPod or iPhone (it says both) it doesn't look very good at all.

I bet whoever did that either:
a) was not from Samsung, but from a PR firm hired by Samsung to handle social medias, such as Twitter, FB, G+, etc
b) does not work for Samsung ANYMORE!
I bet my coins on option (a) above since it has been very common for large corporations to hire firms specialized in digital medias to handle their PR. Such firms not only have control of the social media profiles, but they also create a lot of hype and buzz using fake or unsuspicious profiles and blogs.
I have dated a girl that worked in a firm like that... once I completely understood what she does I couldn't respect her anymore, so I ditched in 3.2 seconds.

It's funny! Apple puncture.

maybe dirty marketing strategies

LOL hahaha

[CLOSED] Official Lockout: Operation Drunk Posts(First App Release)

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thanks...now post in the apps section...not sure why here?

Samsung is on XDA taking suggestions

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3012666
This guy seems legit. We can get our wishlists in.

I hear this guy is friends with the tooth fairy

Haha, your probably right.

telling people that they could forward "suggestions" to him about inclusions in Lollipop should alert you to his trollishness; Lollipop was probably finalized at Samsung months ago.

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telling people that they could forward "suggestions" to him about inclusions in Lollipop should alert you to his trollishness; Lollipop was probably finalized at Samsung months ago.
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Sorry but he is legit. I checked his credentials. He is not a troll. This guy really works for Samsung

Here you go this is the guy.
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what credentials did you check and verify?
That picture doesnt mean anything..

Like i said looks legit.

This is from his facebook page which is tied to his email account that he ises on xda.

If you don't want to believe its ok man. It does seem far fetched.

Look at the name tag. He's not an employee. He's part of Samsung's App Academy which is sort of like an internship for high school juniors/seniors. He's still in high school.

You're right, http://www.scholastic.com/samsungacademy/index.aspx
Check this out, His post count doesn't update. Shows as N/A
XDA internal thing? Is XDA making a joke out of us?
ungraph said:
Look at the name tag. He's not an employee. He's part of Samsung's App Academy which is sort of like an internship for high school juniors/seniors. He's still in high school.
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arjun90 said:
You're right, http://www.scholastic.com/samsungacademy/index.aspx
Check this out, His post count doesn't update. Shows as N/A
XDA internal thing? Is XDA making a joke out of us?
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That's because his account has been banned/locked out.

Lol, I just noticed that after you pointed it out, Lol. Great Job Samsung
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That's because his account has been banned/locked out.
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Wow!!!!!
Samsung please please stop with the fugly white interface!!
Oh and we know this isn't going to land with Samsung. Just entertaining this thread.

Mods, close this useless thread. The OP is on Cloud 9. I'd rather e-mail the CEO of Samsung, like I've done before when the Note N7000 (aka Note 1) was in the market. What a difference that made, if any, lol.