Ron Paul Mobile:The easy way to get Ron Paul
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Rhine-o Enterprises announces Ron Paul Mobile for the iPhone and iPad. Ron Paul Mobile is the easiest way to get Ron Paul related news and videos on your iPhone or iPad! With new videos of Ron Paul's interviews and speeches being added as they become available (often multiple times a day), and a real-time feed of the latest news articles related to Ron Paul, this app allows you to keep your finger on the pulse of the Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign.

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Speaking of Shit-Ass Websites

post from Daring Fireball on 30 November 2011 11:02:23 PM. © Daring Fireball

MG Siegler on Business Insider’s practice of breaking articles — articles — into 12-page-view “slideshows”.

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Shit-Ass Websites

post from Daring Fireball on 30 November 2011 11:02:23 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jim Dalrymple:

It got me thinking about some of the other sites I visit, so I didsome tests loading the homepage of each site and here?s what Ifound. There are three stats for each site — the number of httprequests, the size of the page and how long it took the page todownload.

Send me a “Get Off My Lawn, You Goddamn Kids” t-shirt if you want, but I say web pages should still be measured in kilobytes, not megabytes. Especially when the megabytes are almost all for ads.

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And the Bidding for Yahoo Begins

post from Daring Fireball on 30 November 2011 09:03:13 PM. © Daring Fireball

Geoff Duncan:

Yahoo?s current strategy seems to be offering a minority stakeof just under 20 percent of the company using PIPE transactions —Private Investment in a Public Equity. If Yahoo keeps theproportion of the deal under 20 percent of the company, Yahoo?sboard of directors can approve the deal without putting it to ashareholder vote. PIPE transactions are generally considered theprovince of less-than-reputable companies: they?re essentially astrategy that allows major changes in company ownership withoutshareholder approval. If Yahoo conducts such a transaction, it?salmost certain to further alienate its investors — unless it cangenerate tremendous amounts of cash from the sale.

Ignominious.

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Who Needs Competition

post from Daring Fireball on 30 November 2011 08:03:16 PM. © Daring Fireball

Linda Loyd, reporting for The Philadelphia Inquirer:

U.S. Sen. Robert Casey (D., Pa.) has urged the chief executiveofficer of US Airways Group Inc. to rescind the airline’s farehike planned for flights between Philadelphia and Pittsburghin early January, when only US Airways will fly between thetwo cities.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Tuesday that when SouthwestAirlines Co. drops its flights between Philadelphia and Pittsburghon Jan. 8, the price for a US Airways round-trip ticket will jumpfrom $118 plus tax, to $698 plus tax.

What a dick move.

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Imagine If It Were Apple

post from Daring Fireball on 30 November 2011 07:03:14 PM. © Daring Fireball

John Brownlee, writing for Cult of Mac:

Once logged, Carrier IQ then sends all of this data to its ownservers. That?s incredible. One privately held company thatalmost no one has ever heard of has the complete logs of everyemail, phone call, web search and text message ever sent orreceived by millions of Android, Blackberry and Nokia users.

I don’t think that’s an accurate description of what we know at this point. This stuff gets logged on the device. And Carrier IQ claims that their portal software gives “customers” (a.k.a. phone carriers) the ability to look at this stuff. But I don’t think anyone has shown what gets phoned home.

Even worse? There?s no way to opt out of the Carrier IQ?service.? On Android phones, your only choice is to root yourphone and replace the operating system with one without thesoftware pre-installed.
This is absolutely insane. Apple was practically crucified overLocationGate, which was just a cache of GPS locations stored onuser?s home machines. Meanwhile, almost every Android phone outthere is reading people?s emails and logging their passwords,while no one bats an eye.

Apple’s location brouhaha wasn’t even about GPS data — it was only a cache of cell tower locations. The problem isn’t that the news media aren’t sensationalizing this Carrier IQ story. The problem is that they would if it involved Apple.

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Fantasy Vixens - Announces launch of Funny New
Gag Gift App for men

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Fantasy Vixens iPhone App for the men who like cute vixens and have a sense of humor. Featuring 15+ hot Vixen i-Cards where you add your face and send it to your friends all in one stroke on the iPhone. Men's favorites are Wrestling Vixens featuring hot blonde, brunette and red headed babes that will put you in a mean headlock. You'll love the Football Vixen where you take a picture of your face and it becomes the actual football then you kick a field goal while the crowd cheers and more.

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What Is Carrier IQ

post from Daring Fireball on 30 November 2011 06:03:05 PM. © Daring Fireball

Trevor Eckhart’s report on Carrier IQ:

From training documents found we get an insight to the Carrier IQPortal. Devices are displayed to the portal operator byindividual phone Equipment ID and Subscriber IDs. The ?portaladministrator? can put devices into categories and see devicesin California that have dropped calls at 5pm.
The down side to all of this is the ?portal administrator? isalso able to ?task? a single phone with a profile containingany combinations of metric and trigger. From leaked trainingdocuments we can see that portal operators can view and taskmetrics by equipment ID, subscriber ID, and more. So instead ofseeing dropped calls in California, they now know ?JoeAnyone?s? location at any given time, what he is running onhis device, keys being pressed, applications being used.

From what I can see, Eckhart’s picture of exactly how Carrier IQ works is incomplete. But I’m pretty sure he’s onto something here. The best-case scenario he paints is still rather alarming. The worst-case scenario is that people working at your phone carrier, using Carrier IQ’s portal software, can watch what you’re doing on your phone as you do it.

Eckhart’s report clearly touched a nerve at Carrier IQ. They sent him this preposterous cease-and-desist order (PDF), which you really need to read to believe. Eckhart, with legal support from the EFF, stood his ground and forced Carrier IQ to retract the cease-and-desist.

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Felix Salmon on Apples Valuation

Felix Salmon, commenting on Andy Zaky’s piece on Apple’s stock price:

All of which raises the obvious question: why is Apple tradingat such a seemingly depressed level? I have a few ideas, none ofwhich are particularly compelling.

By the way, a few readers have asked whether I personally own Apple stock. Good question. I do not. I don’t own stock in any companies that I cover regularly here on DF. I do own shares of an S&P 500 mutual fund.

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Carrier IQ

David Kravets, reporting for Wired Threat Level:

Though the software is installed on most modern Android,BlackBerry and Nokia phones, Carrier IQ was virtually unknownuntil 25-year-old Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut analyzed itsworkings, revealing that the software secretly chronicles auser?s phone experience — ostensibly so carriers and phonemanufacturers can do quality control.
But now he?s released a video actually showing the loggingof text messages, encrypted web searches and, well, you nameit. [?]
The company denies its software logs keystrokes. Eckhart?s17-minute video clearly undercuts that claim.

I’ve been reading about Carrier IQ all afternoon, and what they’re logging is simply breathtaking. It’s not clear to me, though, just what is being sent from the devices to Carrier IQ’s servers. What’s being logged on the device is one thing. What’s being sent over the air to Carrier IQ’s servers is another.

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