Facebook has been in hot water with Canada over how it protects user data, and the country’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, is set to announce at a news conference tomorrow that the company plans to comply with the government’s privacy concerns. Last month, Stoddart said that the social network breached Canada’s privacy law by holding [...] Continue »

Sherpa, a location-based services application developed by Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup Geodelic, is among the fastest-growing applications for Google’s Android. In the past week, the company claims that it has seen 50,000 downloads from the Android market. The T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, which launched earlier today, has been providing the impetus for growth.
Nearly 4,500 copies [...] Continue »

Facebook has been in the hot seat this past week over claims that the social network has been letting third-party advertisers post people’s photos without permission, causing a flurry of conversation among confused users on both its site and Twitter. The buzz caught Facebook’s eye and prompted the company to put up a blog [...] Continue »

T-Mobile USA is feeling optimistic about Android and the future of mobile apps — and cautious when it comes to Symbian. In this interview, I chat with Cole Brodman, chief technology officer of T-Mobile USA, about innovation in the mobile industry and why his company is confident that its new HSPA+ network should be enough to compete with Verizon’s LTE network. Continue »

In November 2004, eBay’s stock was trading near an all-time high at $56 a share, having risen sixfold in a little less than four years. This month, shares were trading below $10. eBay needs a fix, but there aren’t a lot of easy options before it. Continue »

It emerged over the weekend that Verizon Wireless was trying to share your cell phone data with “affiliates, agents and parent companies.” David Weinberger read the fine print on a recent 45-page Verizon mailing to discover that tidbit, and posted a really clear set of instructions to opt out.
His worries and the subsequent media hysteria [...] Continue »

These days, we want to carry the contents of our homes with us wherever we go. Books, music, videos…they all represent the proverbial hearth. Of course, thanks to the availability of cheap wireless connections, we are getting rid of another fixture in our homes: the landline phone. Every quarter, there are roughly 3 million fewer landline phones. Now, a few changes of clothes and a computer, and suddenly home is not where the heart is, but where there’s a connection. Continue »