iLounge is reporting that Apple Retail and Apple Online will no longer carry screen protectors for iPhone, iPod, or anything else, either sold separately or packaged with cases. That includes plain protectors, anti-glare, privacy, mirror, or any other kind of film meant to be placed over an iPhone or iPod screen. iLounge further speculates this ...

Found under: Windows Phone, Freeware, Phone, Calls, Privacy, Protect, Call Blocker, XBLOCKR is a mobile phone application designed to protect your privacy from unwanted calls. XBLOCKR has all the options that will help you screen the caller on the fly when the call arrives. It also helps you avoid unwanted calls or calls that you do not want to answer with great ease.XBLOCKR FeaturesDuck - disconn...

Facebook has been working on a location-based service for close to a year, but held off on an announcement until it was completely ready for mainstream adoption, fearing potential privacy concerns. However, it looks like the time for letting the masses know has finally arrived. The new feature will not only let users share their whereabouts with friends, but also give third-party developers tools ...

Initially available only to US users, geotagging is a new opt-in Twitter feature that lets you tag select tweets with your geographical location. Other folks see a user-friendly location name next to your tweet and can click it to reveal the location in Google Maps. For privacy reasons, this feature needs to be turned on from

SXSW keynoter slams Google Buzz over privacy

Social networking expert Danah Boyd keynoted the opening remarks at SXWS on Saturday, March 13 with a talk about privacy and publicity. Boyd said that privacy is not dead, but that a big part of our notion of privacy relates to maintaining control over our content, and that when we don’t have control, we feel that

BEIJING, China - The Nokia E72 is a highly successful landscape QWERTY device which has melded great design to fast internals, thereby making it the best of both the worlds. WAPI is the Chinese equivalent of Wi-Fi and was meant to be initially a layer on top of Wi-Fi. WAPI (WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure) is

Netflix, of course, received tons of attention and (apparently) a lot of valuable research, with its Netflix prize competition, that allowed anyone to take a bunch of Netflix data and try to improve on Netflix's ranking algorithm. Of course, whenever you're dealing with "anonymized data" there are questions about whether or not it can really be anonymous. In nearly every case, someone fi...

Candy-bar shaped messaging phone with QWERTY keyboard, Nokia E72i, gets approval to enter China. The new E72i supports WAPI (Wired Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure), Chinas own wireless standard for Wi-Fi connectivity. Other than having WAPI, t he E72i is no different t than a regular E72 phone. The E72i will be available in white, purple,

I have to admit that I've been a bit in shock over Congress's decision to simply renew the Patriot Act, recently, without a single safeguard to protect against abuse. That's because just before all this happened, we wrote about how a report from the government found (not for the first time) that the FBI regularly abused its authority to get phone records it had no right to. This wen...