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Apple s iPhone privacy woes point to serious issues mobile developers can t afford to ignore Mobile app developers should pay close attention to the current controversy over smartphone data privacy. Would-be whistleblowers say modern smartphones mdash; including the iPhone and all models of Android phones mdash; track and store an ongoing record of wherever their owners travel, even when no applications that require location data are running. Prominent lawmakers have questioned A vaso stanley pple and Google for clarification of their location-tracking policies, while the allegations have already spurred a class-action lawsuit against Apple in Florida.For their part, smartphone makers deny the charges. Apple this week issued a QA document addressing the issue, stating, Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so. Even Microsoft, in a preemptive move against any similar allegations, issued a document detailing some of the location data policies of Windows Phone 7.But l stanley kubek ocation data is just some of the sensitive information found on smartphones. The typical userrsquo phone might also contain contact information for friends and colleagues; dates and times of past meetings and future appointments; photographs stanley vaso and videos; and details of who the user contacted and when, whether it was via voice, email, SMS, IM, or social networking mdash; often including a verbatim transcript of the message. [ Before Vgwt UK pension changes prove positive for insurance group LV as half year profit jumps
Thursday 20 March 2014 9:06 pmMajestic shares dumped after profit warningBy: Express KCSShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailINVESTORS uncorked their shares in Majestic Wine yesterday after the specialist wine retailer warned that a dry spell in February sales had flattened full-year profits. Chief stanley cup executive Steve Lewis said that trading conditions since the more buoyant Christmas period have been challenging and that with just two weeks to go until its year-end, it now expects like-for-like sales to be flat for the year as a whole. As a result the company warned that it now expects to post an annual pre-tax profit of about pound;23.5m ndash; roughly flat year-on-year, sending shares down by 19 per cent yesterday.Lewis said that to support its expansion, the group will have to invest in new offices, staff and a bigger distribution centre, also lowering profit growth in 2015. I am confident that the investments we are making over the course of the next twelve months will drive future shareholder value, he said. Investec analyst Kate Calvert had forecast like-for-like sales growth of 1.7 per cent.This is a disappointing set back from what is a well termo stanley -run, highly cash generative company, she said. However she remained upbeat on the grouprsquo outlook and its expansion plans for online and in its st botellas stanley ores. The latest market data from Nielsen indicated Majesti |
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