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iOS 4.3.3 Released, Includes Location Tracking Fixes

The rumor only appeared the other day and when it did, the suggestion was we’d have to wait a couple of weeks for the release of iOS 4.3.3, but guess what, if you sync your device with iTunes right now, it’s ready for download. Like the two previous iOS 4.3 updates, this has no new features [...]

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iOS 4.3.3 Out Soon to Fix Tracking Issues

The team over at BGR have heard another version of iOS 4.3 will be coming to an iPhone near you soon, and it’s primary reason-for-being is to fix that naughty tracking ‘bug’.  It was casually mentioned by Apple that we should expect a software fix at some point, when they officially responded to the tracking [...]

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After Apple’s Location Data Scandal, Will You Give Up Your iPhone?

Thanks to some detective work carried out by two researchers, it was revealed this week that a log containing location data from your iPhone was being backed up and stored on your computer; and this file could be decoded fairly simply. Lots of shouting about privacy and the reasons why Apple would be doing this commenced, [...]

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Is Your iPhone Tracking You? Researchers Say Yes!

Two researchers working on data visualization projects have discovered a file inside iOS 4 which collects and stores data based on your location, complete with times and dates, then stores it on your phone.  The file is then transferred to your computer during backups and can be accessed by anyone with the opportunity, relatively simply. It [...]

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Catchif: I Catching or Waste of Time?

A new app has jumped into the pool of applications that map your location and the locations of your friends. Obviously, with all the competition afoot, one would assume developers attempting to breach into this particular field would bring their A-game. Unfortunately, the developers of Catchif decided not to. Catchif works in a similar fashion just [...]

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Geodelic’s location based discovery app now available for the iPhone

As many of the regular iPhoneFreak readers will already know, I use both an iPhone 3GS and Android based HTC Hero. And because of that, some of my favorite apps are those that cross over between platforms. Typically those apps start on the iPhone side and then end up with Android, but in this latest [...]

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Friend Mapper Review

Have you ever wondered what your friends are doing? Well if you haven’t before you probably are right now. Or maybe you’ve felt like all of your friends are conspiring against you and they all went out without telling you? Well now you can find out exactly where your friends are any time of the [...]

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Newly released GeoTweeter app combines Twitter and your location

A new Twitter application has entered the App Store, and this one seems to be worthy of a download. The app is called GeoTweeter and comes courtesy of Schmap, who you may already know from schmap.me. The app is being referred to as “the iPhone app that puts the ‘where’ in your tweets” and catchy [...]

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Native Brightkite app coming to the iPhone

Location based social network Brightkite is just about set to launch their native iPhone application. So far this seems to have been a highly requested app, but that aside I would think that it will be well received thanks to a combination of the ability to take advantage of the iPhone 3G’s built in GPS [...]

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