Late last week, HTC was accused of collecting location and personal data from a number of its handsets, breaching privacy in a similar way to Apple’s iOS 4 devices earlier this year. XDA reported that the over the air update to Gingerbread 2.3.4 for the HTC Sensation and HTC Evo 3D included “User Behaviour Logging” which records “virtually every single action on your device” and sends it to Amazon cloud storage.
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Google’s Eric Schmidt has for the first time revealed that the buyout of Motorola was not just so the search giant had rights to the company’s myriad patents but due to its hardware too. Speaking at a Salesforce.com conference, Schmidt explained Google’s decision to make its biggest ever payout for Motorola: “We did it for more than just patents. “We actually believe that the Motorola team has some amazing products coming….We’re excited to have the product line, to use the Motorola brand, the product architecture, the engineers.” RAZR quest And it seems that Moto being behind one of the most iconic-looking phones ever also made Google sit up and listen.
DropTunes ($5.99) by John Mills plays music files stored in your Dropbox account. Load the app and browse to your music files. Select the song you’d like and it will play after a lengthy “initializing” session.
The latest retailer tip in the great iPhone 5 release date conjecture game of 2011 sees Best Buy pegging the long-rumoured handset for a 21 October release. The tip comes by way of This Is My Next , which received a screengrab of a memo that details an early start time on that date, in an event titled “Apple Fixture Installation”.