This article explains how Facebook is deciding to allow third-party app developers to have access to the users phone number and address. It explains that Facebook is taking some precautions to make sure that this feature is as safe as possible, but others mentioned in the article do not agree that it is enough.
"Cell phones have changed a lot over the years, and their main functions was
to make calls - so how come the recent 2010 Mobile Access survey shows that
making calls is not the most important feature? This was certainly bound to
happen once SMS and other such features came about."
The girl, now 18, reported to police that she received a text message last
month from an unknown person, who told her that her pictures were seen on a
website.
The woman told police she sent some indecent pictures to her boyfriend from her
cell phone in November 2009. Her phone was later stolen at a New
Her phone was later stolen at a New
Year's
party.
About 15 months later, she received the text message while she was at work,
informing her that her pictures were on the Internet.
It is amazing how far phone services have come. The fact that you can download from 5 Mbps to 12 Mbps over you phone. That is faster than many high speed internet providers
This is a very interested article why middle school children should not be given a cell phone until they understand the reason for a cell phone to avoid behavior like this.
It looks like the texting generation has nothing to worry about as these phones get faster all the time. After reading this I wondered, should I upgrade my phone or wait six months and something else will come out.
I know this week were talking about cell phones and mobile devices and how the internet is used on our phones. I know in my discussion, me and another student were talking about texting and how it was used for the deaf originally. I just thought I'd share this article with the rest of the class.
Companies always complain about competition when it's too late and they've already missed the band wagon. These other companies have had chances even if it was small and incremental to make improvements to their broadband offerings and they chose not too. They also had an opportunity to bid for this stimulus money and unfortunately they did not receive it. If they had they would not be complaning right now.
this is similar to Googles plan to introduce gigabit service to smaller cities on a limited scale to see if the results are profitable. I will be interesting to see if these underdeveloped areas really do take advantage of this service or if it will be lost on them.
These local phone and cable companies fear that they will have to compete with
governmentsubsidized broadband systems, paid for largely with stimulus dollars. If the
taxpayer-funded networks siphon off customers by offering lower prices, private companies might be
less likely to upgrade their lines, endangering jobs and undermining the stimulus plan's goals,
they warn.
Many existing systems, they note, lack the capacity to meet mush
rooming demand for bandwidth. The new, stimulus-funded networks
will provide far more-robust connections - many of them offering speeds of up to 100 megabits or
even 10 gigabits per second to schools, libraries and other "anchor institutions." That's 20 to
2,000 times faster than the DSL and cable wires linking most U.S. homes.