The idea of turning a smartphone into a remote control isn’t new, but using Clik, the process of syncing up a phone to a screen is a ridiculously fast and easy, and it requires no extra hardware.
Source: TechCrunch
The Chrome folks have put together a Field Guide for Web Applications that is almost as notable for its design as the content itself.
Source: readwriteweb.com
Today, the company agreed with that assessment, and said that soon, apps that use address book data will require explicit user permission to do so.
Source: allthingsd.com
Titanium developers have a great opportunity to score up to $5000 cash money in two developer challenges, sponsored by Box.
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Source: developer.appcelerator.com
… as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers.
Source: thepersonalnetwork
Sure Path isn’t the only culprit (soon afterwards it was revealed that photo sharing Hipster also does this) and probably hundreds of apps are getting away with this in the iOS store at this second, which begs for a solution from Apple itself — i.e. it should lock down the address book API and notify users itself when apps want to get their grubby fingers on it.
Source: TechCrunch
… Path never asked its users if it can do this. It may be using our contacts for the benefit of our user experience, for finding friends on Path, for example. But we need an explanation.
Source: readwriteweb.com
