Nancy Gohring
Writer
Nancy Gohring is a freelance journalist who started writing about mobile phones just in time to cover the transition to digital. She's written about PCs from Hanover, cellular networks from Singapore, wireless standards from Cyprus, cloud computing from Seattle and just about any technology subject you can think of from Las Vegas. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Computerworld, Wired, the Seattle Times and other well-respected publications.
Carrier IQ Hopes to Allay Users' Privacy Concerns
Carrier IQ executives said they hope that customers are once again recognizing the value of the data that their company's software collects, after some operators disabled the software following a privacy uproar late last year. The...
OK Labs, LG Working on Secure, Virtualized Phones for DoD
The companies are starting with the LG Prada Android phone
Microsoft Says Google Circumvents IE Privacy Policies Too
A researcher said Facebook and many others also use a loophole to get around browser privacy policies
Beware the Fake Megaupload Sites
Some sites that could be phishing operations claim to be the relaunched Megaupload
Anonymous Retaliates for Megaupload Shutdown, Attacks DOJ, Others
The hacker group Anonymous said it has taken down sites run by a number of government and content organizations
Twitter to Open Source Android Security Tech
TextSecure, an Android text messaging client for encrypting messages, is up on GitHub now and other products will follow
Google, Microsoft Teams Work to Keep Pace with Privacy Laws
The companies offered a glimpse at the work required to try to stay on top of data privacy issues
VirtualSharp to Enable Disaster Recovery to Public Clouds
It expects that public cloud providers will start offering the service in the first quarter
Verizon Says it Doesn't Use Carrier IQ Software
Also, Carrier IQ has repeated its assertion that the mobile-phone software doesn't collect personal information
Twitter Scoops Up Mobile Security Developer Whisper Systems
Software from Whisper Systems offers full disk encryption and other security software for Android phones
Regulators Sniffing Around Mobile Privacy Issues
Microsoft said it doesn't want to be in the position of enforcing privacy in apps running on Windows Phones