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Privacy alert: Verizon is now monitoring your mobile Web habits By JR Raphael (@jr_raphael) Verizon Wireless users, listen up: Verizon is making a significant change to its privacy policy for mobile users this week. By default, the company will now use a bunch of your info for "certain business and marketing reports" and for "making mobile ads you see more relevant." This info includes the URLs of websites you visit over Verizon's network and also your device's location data. You can view the full scope of the changes in Verizon's privacy policy change notice. If you don't want Verizon to use your data in this way, you need to go to verizonwireless.com/myprivacy and opt out. By default, you will be opted in to this new program -- so if that isn't what you want, take a minute now and change those settings.

Potentially Alarming Research: Anonymous Intelligence Agency Socializer #Anonymous hacks India IT minister’s webpage in wake of Facebook arrests Activists supporting the group Anonymous wear masks as they protest against the Indian Government's increasingly restrictive regulation of the internet in New Delhi on June 9, 2012. (AFP Photo/Raveendran) Hacktivists defaced the website of India’s telecoms minister after nationwide anger at authorities crackdown on online comments. ­The particular cause of the ongoing public uproar in India is a 2008 amendment to the Information Technology Act, which makes it a crime to digitally send “ .” The penalty under the controversial Section 66A can put a person in jail for three years for an email or any online entry. In recent developments, two women were seized a week ago in Mumbai, Maharashtra state, over the comments they made about the funeral of the hard-line politician, Bal Thackeray. As Mumbai was shut down as part of the commemorations, Shaheen Dhada, 21, wrote on her Facebook: Almost instantly, she got a call from a stranger who, the girl later told the press, asked: " ”

Coffee Shop Computer Etiquette  – Geeks "…these are Starbucks customers who buy a cup of coffee and then occupy a table/power outlet with their laptop and basically camp out for countless hours." First and foremost, I would like to express my sincerest condolences to the family of the late great Mr. Steven P. That being said, this Tech Tip is a list of experiences that I have found to be a hindrance but can otherwise be remedied for all you mobile tech commuters. This Tech Tip will help outline a general etiquette list so mobile tech commuters can share a common courtesy in this world filled with laptops, e-book readers and coffee shops! 1.) Leave a power strip in the car or backpack as a contingency plan in case you walk into a coffee shop and see one power outlet with both plugs occupied. 2.) And the majority of us hardly ever allow our notebooks/tablets to completely discharge, nevermind that virtually all notebooks built today average at least 3-4 hours of battery life. 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.)

Online Web Services - zifzi.com Productive Web Apps | WEB APPS TO HELP YOU AT WORK AND PLAY 15 More of the World's Most Dangerous People, Selected by You | Danger Room inShare0 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with his wife, Ri Sol-ju, during a visit to a Pyongyang park on July 25, 2012. Photo: AP/KCNA We’ve published our list of the 15 people most responsible for turning this world haywire. No, your mother-in-law doesn’t get on the list. Kim Jong-un. Thanks again, everyone. Tags: Anonymous, Ashfaq Kayani, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Cosmo the God, David Petraeus, Fethullah Gulen, Kim Jong-un, Paper Pushers, Beltway Bandits, Politicians, Rogue States, Satoshi Nakamoto, T is for Terror, Tactics, Strategy and Logistics, Vladimir Putin, Zaheer ul-Islam

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