Facebook ‘Send’ Button Aims for More Private Content Sharing

Facebook on Monday introduced the 'Send' button. Simply put, it's like the 'Like' button but giving the capability to privately share content to an individual friend or a Facebook group.

Facebook ‘Send’ Button Aims for More Private Content Sharing

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Google: Location Sharing on Android is ‘Opt-in’ by the User

A report released at Where 2.0 conference about Apple's iPhone and iPad 3G capturing and sending users location data back to the company, resulted in -- Senator Al Franken subsequently sent a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs asking for an explanation.

Google: Location Sharing on Android is ‘Opt-in’ by the User

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How To Stop Your iPhone From Sharing Your Location With Everyone (AAPL)

It was revealed today that iPhones and iPads have been tracking and storing your location and backing it up to your Mac every time you sync.

That has some privacy nuts nervous, and rightfully so. The location data is stored on your computer and theoretically accessible to malicious apps or anyone else who uses your machine.

Right now, it looks like there isn't a way to stop your iPhone from recording this information or backing it up to your computer. In the meantime, your best bet is to encrypt your sync to make it harder for people or apps to access your location data.

Here's how to do it:

• Plug in your iPhone or iPad into your Mac's USB port and launch iTunes.

• Select your device under "Devices" in iTunes.

• Scroll down to the bottom of the summary page and check the box next to "Encrypt iPhone backup."

• Choose a password that will be used to access your phone's backups

Check out the screenshot below to see what it looks like:

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THE APPLE INVESTOR: Here Comes Peer-To-Peer App Sharing Capability For The iPhone (AAPL, VZ)

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AAPL Flat Against Tech

The market is mixed as consumer sentiment rose more than expected, jumping to its highest level since January 2008. Shares of AAPL are flat. Upcoming catalysts for Apple include monthly NPD data (Mac / iPod business); holiday iPhone and iPad sales updates and carrier expansion (Verizon); new content revenue streams such as video, books, newspapers and social (Ping); moving iTunes into the cloud; and the uptake of the new Apple TV. Shares of Apple trade at 15x Enterprise Value / Trailing Twelve Months Free Cash Flow (incl. long-term marketable securities).

Analysts Jump On The Verizon iPhone Band Wagon And Raise Price Targets (Fortune)
Let the guessing game begin:

• Doug Reid at Stifel Nicolaus raised his price target to $390 noting an increase in confidence that the Verizon iPhone will ship in early 2011 with a mid-February launch. Reid is only estimating 800,000 additional iPhone sales for the year despite diversifying carriers. So he's essentially saying having Verizon won't help sell more iPhones. Craziness.
• Scott Craig at Bank of America Merrill Lynch increased his price target to $420. As he expects the Verizon iPhone to be introduced early next year as well. Craig believes that Apple will gain an extra 6 million phones through the country's largest network.

Apple Working On Peer-To-Peer App Sharing Capability (Patently Apple)

Apple is working on a way for peers to share or introduce applications to peers; an app-driven vision for life in the clouds. Two iPhone users can share apps on a peer-to-peer basis according to a new patent, and if payment is required the receive can pay later. The giver could also receive incentives for sharing apps. Extend these concepts to the Mac App Store and we could really experience a software sales explosion.

The iPad Is Gradually Making Its Way To A Company Near You (Citrix)

Citrix posted the results of a survey of over 4,900 people: customers who are interested in the iPad or using the device already.

• 62% say they will buy the iPad for work. However, 57% said their companies aren’t buying them. It's all about the consumer.
• 91% of respondents said they will use the iPad primarily for productivity applications and another 69% cited collaboration as the primary use.
• Email was the primary use for the iPad by far at 95%.
• 45% of respondents said the iPad is convenient for work, but they haven’t used it a lot. While 42% said that they are more productive and use the iPad daily.
• 72% of respondents said their companies will give them access to corporate resources on their personal iPads.
• 28% said their companies are shutting out the iPad.

The iPad Will Generate More Than 2% Of All Internet Traffic By The End Of Next Year (All Things Digital)

According to Chitika, by the end of 2011 the iPad will generate more than 2% of all North America Internet traffic. The research firm has been tracking iPad adoption rates on its ad network (three billion ads served monthly across more than 100,000 sites). Currently, the iPad accounts for 0.83 percent of all traffic on Chitika’s network. At current growth rates, it should hit 2.3% by the end of next year.

Costco And Apple Break Ties (Seattle Times)
During Costco's fiscal first quarter earnings call, CFO Richard Galanti confirmed that the company is in the process of phasing out Apple products. The split is apparently mutual, however Costco can't be happy about it. Although, the wholesale retailer was never allowed to sell Apple's products through its own online store. Shoppers will just have to go to Sam's Club, Wal-Mart or Target.

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• THE APPLE INVESTOR: Apple Looking To Control The Enterprise And Console Gaming Markets

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Comment on Say Cheese: Social Photo Sharing App Throwdown by Nithin

@instagram FTW!

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I never signed up for Flickr or other photo sharing sites. Recently I started using burstn and found it gradually became addictive. There's something compelling about scrolling through so many different people's photographs as they appear in burstn's timeline as well as contributing your own. I started thinking about seeing all those different photographs side-by-side over time and started to experiment with photo collages - probably not what burstn was designed for- but uploading works fine, and their system seems to handle all the weird photo sizes I throw at it. It's been a lot of fun.

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Fast, Simple Map Mashup Creation and Social Sharing with TargetMap

Here’s details of a cool, new, open community mashup creation service from TargetMaps – the @TargetMap crew sent us a tip off this morning via Twitter. The service enables rapid creation of online map mashups, facilitates simple sharing and community collaboration and even offers a paid for option (nominal fee) for those who want to [...]

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Mapbiquity, Makes Map creation and sharing fast and easy!

Here’s a tip off about a cool, new web service that enables anyone to easily and quickly create, embed, and share a map. Using the service the user creates an account, then you can upload your own data (like a SHP file) – I grabbed some free, public, open data from the Vancouver OpenData sharing [...]

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Amazon Touts Kindle Sales Numbers Without Sharing Kindle Sales Numbers

Unsurprisingly, the fourth quarter is usually the best sales period for the Kindle (and most retail products), but it looks like this year will be especially strong as more consumers flock to e-books. After announcing a new e-book loan feature last week, Amazon is revealing a number of new Kindle stats today in time for the holiday shopping rush. According to the company, sales of the new generation Kindle devices have already surpassed total Kindle device sales from the holiday season of last year (October through December 2009). Sales of individual Kindle titles are flying off the digital bookshelves. Amazon sold more than three times as many Kindle books in the first nine months of 2010 as in the first nine months of 2009. Amazon also said that Kindle book sales continue to overtake print on Amazon.com. This data is consistent with Q2 and Q1 Kindle numbers Amazon revealed during its earnings call in July. And in the past 30 days, Amazon.com customers purchased more Kindle books than print books, which includes both hardcover and paperback combined, for the top 10, 25, 100, and 1,000 bestselling books on Amazon.com.

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