Sprint, HTC Hatch Plan To Remove Carrier IQ Software From Handsets
Sprint (NYSE: S) will no longer require the companies who make phones for its network to install Carrier IQ’s software, which prompted an up…
Sprint (NYSE: S) will no longer require the companies who make phones for its network to install Carrier IQ’s software, which prompted an up…
Unlike competitor Sprint, T-Mobile has taken a more restrained approach to its use of Carrier IQ’s handset monitoring software. T-Mobile acknowledged installing the software in 450,000 Android and BlackBerry phones, but it claimed to use a limited version and collects data only for troubleshooting purposes.
Though most U.S. operators use Carrier IQ’s handset monitoring software in some form, they’re not all using it to the same degrees. Sprint turns out to be Carrier IQ’s biggest fan, installing its software on half of all devices while AT&T uses it much more sparingly.
As more and more information comes out about Carrier IQ’s phone monitoring software, it’s becoming more difficult to sort out exactly what data its IQ Agent collects, records and ultimately sends its operator customers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, has prepared a handy infographic explanation.
Carrier IQ has released the most detailed assessment of what its controversial software can and can’t do on your mobile phone, weeks after i…
In documents released late Monday, Carrier IQ revealed its phone monitoring software isn’t just sending same generic performance and network metrics from every device. Operators could use Carrier IQ’s platform to perform research on their unwitting customers, recruiting their phones into virtual focus groups.
Carrier IQ has become the target of public outrage, but a new study finds that the condemnation of Carrier IQ might be misplaced. The Yankee Group discovered a majority of consumers want their operators to access the very information that Carrier IQ is tracking.
Last week brought alarming accounts about how a firm called Carrier IQ may have used key logging technology to record millions of phone mess…
This week, I took delivery of a Galaxy Nexus, which may the hottest new Android handset; at least for now. Android 4.0 is elegant and refined, on par in many ways with Apple’s iOS 5. Silently running diagnostic software from Carrier IQ isn’t so elegant, however.
There is no question that we love our mobile devices. There’s also no question that we are paranoid about how much of ourselves we pour into…