Mobile Data Found Expendable

Nearly half of Americans would drop their mobile data service completely if faced with a need to cut household spending, according to new data from research firm Strategy Analytics. By contrast, just 10% would be willing to cut their wired broadband service to save money, and only 12% were willing to drop digital television service. ”Conventional wisdom seems to have dictated that people are so addicted to their mobile voice and data that you’d really have to ‘pry it from their cold, dead hands,‘” says Ben Piper, director of the Strategy Analytics’ multiplay market dynamics service, which conducted the Web survey. “This turns out not to be the case.” Pipe admits he was surprised at the “vulnerability of mobile services.”….. Read more…

Research by the security firm revealed a further 52 percent of parents admitted they never changed the security settings on their parental controls software while 20 percent admitted to being unsure as to the level of security. Nearly two thirds of parents also said they hadn’t raised the subject of online security with their children.Four out of five parents that use parental control software don’t turn it on, despite being concerned about their children’s online safety, says McAfee….. Read more…

A third of social networkers have at least three pieces of information visible on their profiles that could make them vulnerable to ID theft, says the security firm Webroot. Research by the U.K. security software firm revealed that 78 percent of Brits are concerned about the privacy of information on their social networks such as Facebook and MySpace….. Read more…

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HTC hooked us up with a couple of bad ass new phones — the much awaited Touch Pro2 and the Touch Diamond2. The Touch Pro2 has stole our hearts, we’re not going to lie…. Read more…