Path‘s response: We are sorry

We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts.

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In Path 2.0.6, released to the App Store today, you are prompted to opt in or out of sharing your phone’s contacts with our servers in order to find your friends and family on Path. If you accept and later decide you would like to revoke this access, please send an email to service@path.com and we will promptly see to it that your contact information is removed.

Path iOS App version 2.0.6 now warns users before uploading the content of Address Book.

That’s a proper response from Path.

Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

The reactions: Delete Path from iPhone (iOS device)

Email service@path.com and request to delete your Address Book data from Path servers.

Hi (First Name of Path User),

Thanks for getting in touch with us! I have erased your contacts and their information from our servers.

On behalf of the team, I’d like to apologize for any privacy concerns that you may have had. Our current release of Path for Android requests permission to access your address book. In the next iOS release, we will have this same permission request added.

Until the update is released for iOS, selecting “Add Friends” will display the names of contacts that you have stored on your phone. But now that you’ve opted out of contact uploading, we will never re-store this data on our servers.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help you. I’m more than happy to address any further questions or concerns that you may have.

Best,
(First Name of Path Service Personnel)

That’s simple enough.

Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

When you say “next iPhone” it must be “iPhone 5″, right?
Well, Apple must be naming it “iPhone 5″ since everyone expecting iPhone 4S to be called iPhone 5. This must be a sure thing. “iPhone 5″ it is!

iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 were announced at WWDC. Well, the original iPhone was introduced at MacWorld but it was announced to go on sale at WWDC. So this “iPhone 5″ must be announced at WDDC 2012.

Not so fast.

iPhone 4S was introduced and released in Fall 2011 instead of WWDC time. Despite of what many analysts, journalists and pseudo-journalists believed, Apple did not plan to announce iPhone 4S at WWDC. The form factor was already decided long before the rumors of bigger screen, tapered edges, teardrop shaped, curved glass, and many others surfaced.

In due time when Apple starts seeding iOS 6, you may speculate again. In the meantime your guesses are as good as the analysts, journalists and pseudo-journalists.

 

Posted from Long Beach, California, United States.

Whispers from Cupertino mentioned “iPhone LTE” instead of “iPhone 5″ as the name for the next iPhone. Take it with a grain or a boulder of salt. It is pretty apparent that Apple won’t be using “iPhone 4G” name since “4G’ doesn’t really mean anything anymore.

A source who is not Phil Schiller has been hinting that the next iPhone wouldn’t be called “iPhone 5″ since the release of iPhone 4S.

Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

About a week before Christmas 2011, I helped setting up credit card payment system using Square for a small bakery in the Long Beach, California. All they need are: a wireless access point, an iPod touch and Square card reader. In addition to that, they are also accepting card payment at farmers market in Long Beach, Culver City and Pasadena. According to the bakery owner, they are gaining new customers by simply accepting card payment.

The next project is to redesign Sconeage Bakery website.

 

Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

Google Translate is now fully compatible with iPad with full screen support.

Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

• 2012 is a Leap Year.
• United States Presidential Election will be held in 2012.
• What would Apple do in post-Steve Jobs era?
• What would Google do with Motorola?
• What would become of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA).
• There’s Windows 8.

What I’ve heard:

• Adobe Creative Suite 6 might include the new De-Blur filter.
• Photoshop Touch is coming to iOS/iPad.
• The next iPhone after iPhone 4S is the one I want according the mysterious Apple employee.
• The next iPad is another incremental upgrade from iPad 2.
• Interesting new MacBook Pro design.

Well, I wish you all the best possible outcome in 2012.

Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.

Leap Year

This year will be an interesting year, just like every year before it.

No resolutions, no predictions.

Looking forward to the year and all the exciting Technology news.

Hope you all have a wonderful New Year’s Day.

Posted from Long Beach, California, United States.