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#10 best iphone apps for gardening Whether or not you ve got a green thumb, these apps will help your garden grow.

Timing is everything as those who garden are well aware. And a bountiful crop requires planning and organization.

Following are 10 great gardening apps that serve that very purpose, and can help yield juicier tomatoes, more fragrant rosemary,

and brighter hydrangeas. 1. Landscaper s Companion Although the cost of this app is high,

This app serves as an encyclopedia of more than 1, 400 plants across 16 categories, including perennials, shrubs,

There are also approximately 5, 700 photos within the app for visual reference. Cost: $9. 99 2. Fruit Garden Fruit Garden focuses on the harvesting of 22 different fruits,

Note, the harvesting schedule in this app is specific to the UK, but even if you are not in that region,

$4. 99 4. Bugs and Insects Speaking of bugs, with a database of more than 900 pests, the Bugs and Insects app is a great resource for gardeners looking to determine the culprits who have been nibbling on their harvests,

or just flip through the entire database to satisfy a curiosity about entomology. Cost: $0. 99 5. Botany Buddy Botany Buddy focuses solely on trees

Despite this, the app provides very detailed information and also enables registered users to share collections with fellow tree and shrub enthusiasts through the Botany Buddy website.

$5. 99 (Reduced from its usual $9. 99 price for a limited time) 6. Botanical Interests Botanical Interests is another information-laden app that includes harvesting advice

$5. 99 7. Herbs+This is a great app that provides valuable information on 25 different herbs.

$1. 99 8. Garden Pilot Garden Pilot combines a directory of more than 14,000 plants with a comprehensive article database.

A recent update to the app also shows which plants are available for purchase at local app-participating retailers.

A lite version of this app is available for free, but only contains a listing of 150 plants.

$2. 99 9. Gardens If you prefer more visual gardening instruction, this app features informative videos on topics such as Small Gardens, Big Ideas,#Novice Knockout Gardens,

The Plant Doctor is a free app that provides a listing of the ten most common plant ailments.

a form can be filled out within the app and sent directly to a plant pathologist for an official diagnosis and treatment options#each one costing $1. 99.

With a simple and easy-to-use interface, this app provides one-click calling functionality and relies on Google maps to identify locations nearby.

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#Orange festival in southern France (Photos) Orange Festival in France In the south of France they actually grow citrus

and as you will see they are very creative. These images from the Orange Festival in France will lift your spirits

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#Top 10 Photos of the Week Few people realize the Smurf s cartoon series was based on an actual race of tiny blue people living in Cleveland


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#Top two foods linked to weight loss: Surprising study results This is one of the foods that is linked to weight loss.


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Many factors can be adjusted remotely using an iphone interface. Their LED lights can change spectrum slightly over the course of day to stimulate different growing phases in the plants.

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#Kinze Manufacturing develops â autonomousâ##tractor Kinze Manufacturings autonomous row crop technology. Kinze Manufacturing hopes to do for tractors what Roomba has done for vacuum cleaners.

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#Top 10 Best Space Food If you were in space what would you get to eat?


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#Marc Andreessen explains why software is â eating the worldâ##Groupon, Facebook, and Linkedin investor Marc Andreessen.

Hewlett-packard announced this week that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software,

Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility. Hewlett-packard and Googles moves surprised the tech world.

Marc Andreessen (board member at Hewlett-Parckard) explains why software is eating the world. Both moves are also in line with a trend Ive observed,

which has invested in Facebook, Groupon, Skype, Twitter, Zynga, and Foursquare, among others. I am also personally an investor in Linkedin.

when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones,

giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

Apples itunes, Spotify and Pandora. Traditional record labels increasingly exist only to provide those software companies with content.

when it debuted the popular game on the iphone in late 2009). Meanwhile, traditional videogame powerhouses like Electronic arts and Nintendo have seen revenues stagnate and fall.

The best new movie production company in many decades, Pixar, was a software company. Disney#isney!#

Now its been joined by Groupon, Living Social, Foursquare and others, which are using software to eat the retail marketing industry.

Groupon generated over $700 million in revenue in 2010 after being in business for only two years.

Todays fastest growing telecom company is Skype, a software company that was bought just by Microsoft for $8. 5 billion.

Centurylink, the third largest telecom company in the U s.,with a $20 billion market cap, had 15 million access lines at the end of June 30#eclining at an annual rate of about 7%.Excluding the revenue from its Qwest acquisition,

%Meanwhile, the two biggest telecom companies, AT&T and Verizon, have survived by transforming themselves into software companies,

And the creation of software-powered driverless cars is already under way at Google and the major car companies.

Great incumbent software companies like Oracle and Microsoft are threatened increasingly with irrelevance by new software offerings like Salesforce. com

and Android (especially in a world where Google owns a major handset maker). In some industries, particularly those with a heavy real-world component such as oil and gas, the software revolution is primarily an opportunity for incumbents.

Its not an accident that many of the biggest recent technology companies#ncluding Google, Amazon, ebay and more#re American companies.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want,

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#Worldâ##s forests absorb 40%of manmade fossil fuel emissions Forests are absorbing almost 40 per cent of the 38 billion tons of carbon dioxide created by mankind every year.

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#Fukushima grows sunflowers to clean up radiation contamination A geiger counter is placed in front of sunflowers in full bloom in Fukushima.

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#Genius 13-Year-Old has a solar power breakthrough Would you believe this could be the new look of solar power?


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#Are we ready for a true Cloud Phone? Off on a cloud with your phone.

As we approach the fall, all the rumors of the Apple empire descend upon us. And this year may be the craziest yet because for the first time since the iphones inception,

Apple did not release new hardware in the summer. And there are still whispers of an ipad revamp as well. ios 5 is coming. icloud is coming.

Now its time for me to indulge That one rumor that caught my eye this week was the talk of Apple looking into releasing an icloud Phone#alongside a new iphone 5 this fall.

If youve heard talk about the iphone 4s##this is the same potential device. Its the cheap iphone#that Techcrunch and others have written about in the past.

Given the smoke out there, it would seem that theres something to this rumor. Even Apples executives have hinted at the possibility.

First reported by Apple N Apps, Trevor Sheridan writes: It has come to our attention that Apple is planning to combine ios 5

and icloud with a piece of hardware internally referred to as the icloud iphone. The icloud iphone will rely heavily on Apples new cloud based offering,

and less on internal storage. He continues: Apple is aiming for a $400 final price for the icloud iphone as compared to the typical $600 iphone price,

which the iphone 5 will cost. The carrier subsidization will bring the cost to consumers down to free with a 2 year contract for the icloud iphone with the same $199 iphone cost for the iphone 5. He cites three independent sources on the information,

and notes that a modified iphone 4 design is likely to be used for such a device.

Reducing the internal storage in the iphone is certainly one way Apple could reduce the overall cost of the device.

Plus Apple has spent the past year and a half perfecting the manufacturing of the iphone 4,

so you can be sure costs in that regard have come down. On the face of it, this makes some sense.

But the larger question remains if the world is ready for a cloud-based smartphone?

Storage would be needed for apps and perhaps a little for offline usage, but overall, maybe Apple could get away with a device with just a few gigabytes or so of onboard storage.

The second question is different. After we reported on Apples work on a cheaper iphone a few people reached out wondering

if the ipod touch could simply morph into this product? In other words, Apple could upgrade the ipod touch with an iphone 4 body,

including the 3g radio. If thats Apples thinking for this product, it may be the perfect opportunity to create a phone that doesnt offer traditional phone service.

As in, it would be data-only. Now, the carriers probably would have a hard time with this concept.

And to consumers, Apple could tout it as more of a lite#phone. It can do everything the iphone can,

except make phone calls. And really, thanks to apps like Skype, Facetime, etc, it can do that too#maybe they just dont play that up as much at first.

Without full $60 or $70-a-month plans for cellular minutes and data, the carriers probably wouldnt subsidize the cost of such a device down to $0.

The concept of a data-only phone has been around for a while. In November of 2009, we reported that Google was looking into possibly offering their own Android devices

which would be data-only. This didnt happen, obviously. Instead, Google not only fully hopped into bed with the carriers for their Nexus devices,

they got really close for maximum snuggling and abandoned their broader Android dreams. Whether or not Apple takes this path this year

its pretty clear that this is the future. Eventually, carriers will exist as data dealers. All information, including voice calls will happen over this pipe.

Cellular phone service will just be an optional add-on if youre in an area with a bad data connection.


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whether it is a cell phone, a car, a stone floor or a wood board;

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#The 100+State Parks facing closure â#Is your favorite park on the list? The United states is home to 6,

Oracle State Park San rafael State Natural Area (never was opened) Momolovi Ruins State Park temporarily saved!


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#Top 10 Photos of the Week With lips like cherries and a tongue like strawberries, she has all the makings of a total fruit cake


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but it wasnt until he hit upon the idea to acquire the 1-800-FLOWERS phone number in 1986 that business really bloomed.

The company was the first to put an 800-telephone number in its name, and Mccanns marketing idea paid off.

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#Ultrasonic French fries Do french fries actually taste better with ultrasonic waves? Love french fry? You aint tasted nothin yet!


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#Top 10 brands that will disappear in 2012 Sears is one of the brands expected to disappear within the next 18 months.

The list includes Sears, Sony Pictures, American Apparel, Nokia, Saab, A&w All-American Foods Restaurants, Soap opera Digest, Sony Ericsson, Myspace,

In late May, AT&T (T: 31.17,0. 06,0. 19%)and Deutche Telekom announced that AT&T would buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion.

The deal would add 34 million customers to the company and create the countrys largest wireless operator.

which has nothing to do with its core businesses of consumer electronics and gaming. Sony bought what was Columbia Tri-star Picture in 1989 for $3. 4 billion.

Sonys gaming system group is under siege by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nintendo. Its consumer electronics group faces an overwhelming challenge from Apple.

The companys future prospects have been damaged further by the Japan earthquake and the hack of its large Playstation Network.

and shuttering Sears. 6. Sony Ericssonsony Ericsson was formed by the two large consumer electronics companies to market the handset offerings each had handled separately.

Early in its history, it was one of the biggest handset manufacturers along with Nokia (NYSE:

NOK), Samsung, LG, and Motorola. Sales of Sony Ericsson phones were helped originally by the popularity of other Sony portable devices like the Walkman.

Sony Ericssons product development lagged behind those of companies like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Research in motion (NASDAQ:

Sony Ericsson also relied on the Symbian operating system which was championed by market leader Nokia, but which it has abandoned in favor of Microsofts (NASDAQ:

MSFT) Windows mobile operating because of licence costs and difficulty with programmers. In a period when smartphone sales worldwide are rising in the double digits and sales of the iphone double year over year,

Sony Ericssons unit sales dropped from 97 million in 2008 to 43 million last year.

New competitors like HTC now outsell Sony Ericsson by widening numbers. Sony Ericsson management expects several more quarters of falling sales

and the company has laid off thousands of people. There have been backed rumors by logic, that Sony will take over the operation, rebrand the handsets with its name,

Nokia Nokia is dead. Shareholders are just waiting for an undertaker. The worlds largest handset company has one asset.

Nokia sold 25%of the global total of 428 million units sold in the first quarter.

%The arguments that Nokia will not stay independent are numerous. It has a very modest presence in the rapidly growing smartphone industry

Nokia runs the outdated Symbian operating system and is in the process of changing to Microsoft Window mobile OS

which has a tiny share of the market. Nokia would be an attractive takeover target to a large extent

because the cost to buy#25%of the global handset market would only be $22 billion based on Nokias current market cap.

Obviously, a buyer would need to pay a premium but even $30 billion is within reach of several companies.

Microsoft, which is Nokias primary software partner, could easily buy the company and is mentioned often as a suitor.

The worlds largest software company recently moved further into the telecom industry though its purchase of Voip giant Skype

Two other large firms have many reasons to buy Nokia. Samsung, part of one of the largest conglomerates in Korea, has publicly set a goal to be the No. 1 handset company in the world by 2014.

A buyout of Nokia would launch Samsung into the position as the worlds handset leader.

LG Electronics, the 7th largest company in South korea, with sales of $48 billion, is by most measures the third largest smartphone company.

It has the scale and balance sheet to takeover Nokia. The only question about the Finland-based company is

whether a buyer would maintain the Microsoft relationship or change to the popular Android OS to power Nokia phones.

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#Glass of milk can contain a cocktail of up to 20 chemicals Scientists found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.

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#Growing fake meat in a lab could cut greenhouse emissions by 96%according to scientists Researchers hope to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by producing fake meat in a lab. Scientists from Oxford university have decided to concentrate their efforts on culturing

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#Swedenâ##s hotel of treehouses Tree Hotel in Sweden Swedens unusual Tree Hotel does standardized away with rooms


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and a 53 percent likelihood they talk on the phone while driving. Theres a 4 percent chance they run red lights#n purpose#nd a 2 percent chance they have driven after drinking too much.

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#Small habits slowly pack on the pounds over the years: Study Watching TV, eating potato chips, having a sugary soda are a few bad habits that slowly pack in the pounds.

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#FDA unveils graphic warning labels for all cigarette packs One of the graphic warning labels to appear in cigarette packs.

In addition to the images, the label on packs of cigarettes will include a phone number#1-800-QUIT-NOW#so smokers will know where to go for help quitting.

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#Top 10 best cities to raise your family WASHINGTON DC tops the list of the best city for families.

Google, and Facebook all have offices. With an abundance of pediatricians, 27,000 acres of parkland,

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#Magic mushrooms could have medical benefits, researchers say Magic Mushrooms can induce transcendental states. The hallucinogen in magic mushrooms may no longer just be for hippies seeking a trippy high.


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#Top 10 Most Expensive Cities in the World 2011 Most expensive city in the world#Toyko.

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#Leafsnap â#New App Recognizes Trees Leafsnap mobile app did wondered you ever what type of tree was nearby

but didnt have a way to identify it? A new smartphone app allows users with no formal training to satisfy their curiosity

and contribute to science at the same time. Scientists have developed the first mobile app to identify plants by simply photographing a leaf.

The free iphone and ipad app, called Leafsnap, instantly searches a growing library of leaf images amassed by the Smithsonian Institution.

In seconds, it returns a likely species name, high-resolution photographs and information on the trees flowers, fruit, seeds and bark.

and share their findings with the apps growing database to help map the population of trees one mobile phone at a time.

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#Steve jobs Reveals Plans for the New Hi-tech Apple Headquarters Apples new high-tech headquarters. Steve jobs, Apple CEO, made an unannounced visit to the June 7 City council meeting in Cupertino, home of the computer giant,

who also made a rare appearance earlier in the week at the Worldwide Developers Conference.

and Wolfe Road currently home to Hewlett-packard, which will be relocating next year. The circular building will be an architectural feat

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#Random USDA Testing Finds 34 Unapproved Pesticides on Cilantro Cilantro tastes so good but may have a plethora of pesticides on it.


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It sold for $480 on ebay last month after 31 bids. At the Boise salon, Ambroz has stowed away enough feathers to last about six months.

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#Smoking Death Toll Could Reach 8 Million a Year by 2030 Tobacco will kill 6 million people this year.

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#Donkeyâ##s Milk Helps You Lose weight: Study Study shows drinking donkeys milk is good for you. Cleopatra would bathe in it as part of her beauty regime.

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#Inventing the Rocking chair Tree Futurist Thomas Frey: On Tuesday evening we had packed a audience at the Davinci Institute to discuss the future of micro farming.

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#â Wave and Payâ##Mobile phone Payment System Launched in the UK Samsungs new phone is the first to use Barclaycard and Oranges Quick Tap payment technology.

Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.

Owners of the Apple iphone are keenest, but significant proportions of Blackberry and Google phone users want to take advantage of it too.

Thats not because technology built into mobile phones is the way that everything from cameras to translators, seems to be going.

however, is that for now only one phone, one payment provider and one network operator provides this whizzy technology.

Even though the near-field communications technology is built into a wide and growing number of phones already,

Using an app on the mobile phone, customers can top up their wave and pay account from a connected credit

The app allows a constant, running check on transactions and provides a real, useful and sometimes painful tally of expenditure.

even if rumours that NFC payments are to be built into the forthcoming iphone turn out to be untrue,

Google is working with Mastercard and a host of other manufacturers have similar plans. Indeed, as with almost all significant new technology, the appeal is mainly in the simplicity of NFC.

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#Argentine Farmer Makes Giant Guitar With 7, 000 Trees Extreme guitar tribute to Argentinian farmers wife.


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#New Mineral Discovered: One of Earliest Minerals Formed in Solar system Got Krotite? In the May-June issue of the journal American Mineralogist, a team of scientists announced the discovery of the new mineral krotite,


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#How Goldman sachs Created the Food crisis The word again today IS GREED. Frederick Kaufmans piece for Foreign policy examines how the Goldman sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) is responsible for the increase in food prices.

as speculators (traditionally one-fifth of the market) now outnumber bona fide hedgers four-to-one. via Boing Boing Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati d


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#FDA to Regulate Electronic Cigarettes as Tobacco A woman smoking an electronic cigarette. On Monday, the U s. government said it plans to regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products.

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#Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Apple in US Over Location Tracking Issue Apple has been tracking your moves

Bloomberg was first to report today that two ipad/iphone users have filed a class action lawsuit accusing Apple of invasion of privacy and computer fraud,

and of secretly recording movements of iphone and ipad users.##Vikram Ajjampur, an iphone user in Florida,

and William Devito, a New york ipad customer, sued April 22 in federal court in Tampa, Florida, seeking a judges order barring the alleged data collection.

The complaint cited a report last week by two computer programmers claiming that Apples ios4 operating system is logging latitude-longitude coordinates

along with the time a spot is visited#The programmers said Apple devices are collecting about a years worth of location data.


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According to Karen Batra of the Biotechnology industry Organization Oregon-based ag journal Capitol Press, Under the agencys new two-year pilot project, biotech developers would conduct their own environmental assessment of transgenic crops


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#The Grand Experiment â#Micro Agronomy Futurist Thomas Frey: On Sunday, April 17th I had the privilege of being the opening speaker at the TEDX event at the University of Chicago.

but may also include more viral components like Youtube videos, blogs, mobile apps, and social media.

By monitoring keyword usage through Google searches and with other tools, we can evaluate both short term and long term effects.

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#Smell Like A Nerd: RPG Performance Perfumes Dont you wish you could smell like me?


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#iphone Secretly Tracks Everywhere You Go The map shows location data collected from an iphone that had been used in England.

Apples iphone keeps track of where you go, security researchers have discovered. It also saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device

and longitude of the phones recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone

For some phones there could be almost a years worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apples ios 4 update to the phones operating system,

released in June 2010. Apple has made it possible for almost anybody#a jealous spouse, a private detective#with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where youve been said

Pete Warden, one of the researchers. Only the iphone records the users location in this way,

say Warden and Alasdair Allan, the data scientists who discovered the file and are presenting their findings at the Where 2. 0 conference in San francisco on Wednesday.

Alasdair has looked for similar tracking code in Google's Android phones and couldnt find any,#

We havent come across any instances of other phone manufacturers doing this.##Simon Davies, director of the pressure group Privacy International, said:

The fact that the file is transferred across to a new iphone or ipad when you migrate is evidence that the data-gathering isnt accidental.#

Although mobile networks already record phones locations, it is only available to the police and other recognised organisations following a court order under the Regulation of Investigatory Power Act.

Standard phones do not record location data. MPS in 2009 criticised the search engine giant Google for its Latitude#system,

which allowed people to enable their mobile to give out details of their location to trusted contacts.

#but Google pointed out that users had to specifically choose to make their data available.

The iphone system by contrast, appears to record the data whether or not the user agrees.

and created a simple downloadable application to let Apple users check for themselves what location data the phone is retaining.

If someone were to steal an iphone and jailbreak#it giving them direct access to the files it contains,

they could extract the location database directly. Alternatively, anyone with direct access to a users computer could run the application

though that still leaves the file on the phone. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at the security company Sophos, said:

near the end of the 15,200-word terms and conditions for its itunes program, used to synchronise with iphones,

including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you


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