Since it’s release, Apple has been collecting location data on it’s users of the iPhone. This has been very worrisome to various users and privacy advocate groups. However, for a solid week, Apple has been denying that it tracks users locations at all. Finally, a security researcher released a data file that showed that the iPhone was in fact gathering location data. Apple released a list of 10 questions recently saying that the location data doesn’t store the physical location of iPhone users, but instead keeps a list of cell phone towers and Wifi hot spots around the user. It does this so the phone doesn’t have to listen for faint GPS signals from satellites. The fact that Apple took so long to release this report is a crisis, according to experts, that could have been averted had Apple been upfront about the usage, or lack thereof, of the location data. Immediately upon releasing their phones, they should have released a privacy policy making clear the exact usage of this data. ...

After Sony PlayStation’s recent security breach (hackers managed to steal personal wealth information from its system), we now have Symantec reporting that Facebook might have accidentally leaked your personal information. This is a serious security issue where the world’s largest social networking platform should concern. According to Symantec’s blog post, third parties, in particular advertisers, have accidentally had access to Facebook users’ accounts including profiles, photographs, chat, and also had the ability to post messages and mine personal information. ...

Its confirmed now! After Wall Street Journal’s report, All Things Digital has now confirmed that Microsoft just bought Skype for a huge amount of $8.5 billion. This deal to buy Internet telephone company Skype is officially going to be announced early tomorrow morning. Early reports indicated that Facebook and Google were also looking to acquire the telephony giant, but it was Microsoft with its highly aggressive bid which got them. To don’t know what is Skype, it allows users to make voice calls and chats over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system. Skype has 663 million registered users as of 2010. ...

This one is a biggie if you are a Counter Strike fan! You can now download a map for Counter Strike where Osama Bin Laden was dwelling in Pakistan. This map is the place where Osama Bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad, same compound which turned out to be his resting place. According to the map’s creator - it “may be used as a base for a bomb or hostage map at a later stage.” For now, it’s a general purpose multiplayer map based on the known dimensions of bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. ...

Do you remember Steve Ballmer toning ‘Developers, Developers, Developers…’ which had set the Internet surprise! Ballmer is quite passionate about technology and of course Developers. Here is the original version of that video taken from YouTube - Surprised? Now, this original video was remixed with fabulous lyrics. Listen now! This is a must hear for every developer and check out the lyrics - I’m a developer in many senses of the word cause I make these applications but I also use these verbs to make this music I construct it line by line just like when I’m coding another software design in both cases its about design patterns anyone can get the job done its the execution that matters I have many interests sometimes they conflict my creativity can usually be a benefit but sometimes it keeps me far too busy but I can’t complain because my life is hardly gritty so I think i’ll sit back and pen myself another ditty why is it that Linus Torvalds the only one that Gits me did you get that reference I was using or is the thought of source source control too confusing may just lay myself down a Team Foundation so I can test the objects of my creation ...

In addition to Microsoft series of many labs (Office Labs, Fused Labs, Dev Labs…), it now added Business Intelligence (BI) Labs to it. These labs are meant for showcasing the technologies which can be later converted into full-fledged commercial products. BI Labs is a collection of experimental business intelligence projects and useful applications made available from internal sources across Microsoft. Following applications are available currently - PivotViewer Extension for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining for the Cloud Fuzzy Lookup Add-in for Microsoft Excel 2010 ...

Recently, Apple admitted that location tracking (which stores your location to a database file) as a bug and will be fixing in upcoming iOS software update. Even, I tweeted on April 28 (Osama was killed after that!) that someone should give Osama Bin Laden an iPhone before Apple updates iOS in a funny way! Did Apple help Obama administration find Osama using this iOS bug? Check out this comic below - ...

RIM yesterday announced two new devices BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 along with new Operating System labelled BlackBerry 7. The bad news is there is no legacy support for this new OS which means you can install on older devices. This updated OS includes voice-activated search, corporate/personal separation of data through Balance, new productivity apps preloaded, and the browser has a few enhancements, with HTML5 video, and “Liquid Graphics”. ...

According to a report from TechCrunch, Twitter has won the battle and acquired TweetDeck for an approximate unconfirmed figure of over $40 million. Of course, you may remember the earlier reports that UberMedia acquired TweetDeck. Niow, what happened? Read on.. UberMedia had a 30 day exclusive on the deal, but negotiations took so long giving Twitter an opportunity to make a higher deal and Tweetdeck was in play again. Twitter do not allow UberMedia and other Twitter related startups to grow its market share. Twitter has said that it wants to control the consumer experience around the service, and is encouraging external developers to focus on something other than straightforward Twitter apps. ...

Many netizens are finding it harder and harder to stay away from social networking sites and experts have figures like around 350 million users suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). You won’t find FAD in any medical text book but this is true. More than half of Facebook’s total membership log on at least once in a day. You might be thinking that I don’t have FAD and this is all rubbish. “AllFacebook” posted an interesting set of questions to examine whether you are Facebookaholic - ...