Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko and all your MacBreak Weekly friends. Apple is officially now bigger than Microsoft, Google and Sweden, and more. Guest: Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/mbw. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Bandwidth for MacBreak Weekly is provided by Cachefly. Running time: 2:06:02
- Leo Laporte
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Foodspotting, Yelp, and Gowalla are among a smattering of iOS applications that have been sending the actual names, email addresses and/or phone numbers from your device’s internal address book to their servers, VentureBeat has learned.
- Leo Laporte
I fully believe this issue is a failure of Apple and a breach of trust by Apple, not by app developers. The expectation of Address Book privacy is obvious; in fact, one person on Hacker News, in response to learning about Path's use of the data, said, "Apple would never do this to their users." Because Apple has your trust and yet gives this private information freely to developers, Apple does do this to their users. All of them.
- Leo Laporte
The games are those that connect to Chillingo's "Crystal" game service, and they include both Angry Birds and Cut-The-Rope. In these cases, a user needs to go through an admittedly convoluted set of steps in order to connect their game to the Crystal network, but once connected, there is a button labelled "Invite from Contacts" with a further misleading description "Send an invite from your local contacts."
- Leo Laporte
Google's $12.5 billion bid to buy cellphone maker Motorola Mobility has won approvals from U.S. and European antitrust regulators, moving Google a major step closer to completing the biggest deal in its 13-year history.
- Leo Laporte
YouTube Changes Terms For Content Owners - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD