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• Experts Warn That Public Wi-Fi Is Not Always Secure
  Wi-Fi use in public places such as coffee shops is becoming increasingly popular, but these networks are typically wide open, and experts caution users to be in the mindset that nothing is 100 percent secure and to treat any Internet activity you do at these locations as if it's being monitored. […]
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• What Your Smartphone App Doesn't Say: It's Watching
  Your smart phone applications are watching you -- much more closely than you might like. Lookout Inc., a mobile-phone security firm, scanned nearly 300,000 free applications for Apple Inc.'s iPhone and phones built around Google Inc.'s Android software. It found that many of them secretly pull sensitive data off users' phones and ship them off […]
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• Library of Congress Says iPhone Jailbreaking Is Legal
  Jailbreaking may no longer be the appropriate term for downloading unapproved but legally acquired applications onto Apple's iPhones, in the wake of new rules announced Monday by the U.S. government. The Library of Congress' Copyright Office, which, every three years, reviews exemptions to the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibitin […]
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• Surprising Poll Finds Most iPhone Users Like AT&T
  Amid reports that Apple's iPhone may soon be sold by rivals T-Mobile or Verizon Wireless, a new poll has found that nearly three-quarters of current iPhone users are just fine with AT&T. Despite three years of bad publicity about the handset's connectivity issues with AT&T as its sole U.S. wireless carrier -- even before the antenna issue w […]
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• Wireless Bike Locks - The Halo Bicycle Lock Alerts You to Theft via Your Smartphone
  When summer rolls around, so do the bikes, which also brings out those thrifty thieves. […]
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