Increasing smartphone penetration helped drive postpaid ARPA, as smartphone users are usually heavy data users as well.
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Since smartphone users are usually heavy data users as well, this should continue to help increase postpaid ARPUs further.
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By utilizing nearby hotspots and helping keep users aware of monthly data limits, the app helps Windows Phone 8 users keep control of their data without getting hit by data overage fees.
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In addition to a 30-day overview of users' app data usage, Onavo Count also gives users individual App Profiles, complete with charts that track weekly data usage and gauges that measure individual app's overall mobile data usage.
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Based on the latest data from Ratemizer application users, Finnish Android phone users were consuming twice as much data as iPhone users at the end of 2012.
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As Laiki is dismembered, users' data needs to be safeguarded and access to the systems sealed off.
The FTC has been closely examining what Facebook does with its users' data, said people familiar with the situation.
European law requires that companies must disclose to users which data they collect.
Separately, Google worried privacy advocates by unveiling a new policy by which it will share users' data among its websites.
The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users' data accessible and secure from loss.
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Even among smartphone users, data shows that QR code usage is low.
And since Silent Circle doesn't host the required encryption key on its servers, there's no way for the company to access users' data.
With products like "Timeline" and "Open Graph, " Zuckerberg appears determined to erode privacy and package users as data products that add value to his corporation.
The online Aladdin's cave and AMA forum Reddit has revealed a revamped privacy policy intended to make clear exactly how it deals with users' data.
That certainly seems to be the message in a report out today from Deloitte that warns mobile networks of an almost insatiable desire amongst smartphone users for data.
The reason why smartphones are subsidized by carriers in return for long-term contracts is that smartphone users are widely recognized as heavy data users and bring a higher life-time value to carriers.
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Sony has launched a three-part strategy to win back the trust of users whose data was compromised in a hacker intrusion that may have accessed as many as 77 million accounts: Apologize.
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Consumer watchdogs were slow to grasp the implications of the Abacus deal and of the fact that, in its wake, DoubleClick had quietly dropped from its website its pledge to keep users' data completely anonymous.
Of course, GPS makers aren't too interested in collecting individual users' data (at least, we hope not), but they are collecting some general data, and TomTom has now released a few of its findings.
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"Weev is facing more than three years in prison because he pointed out that a company failed to protect its users' data, even though his actions didn't harm anyone, " said Marcia Hofmann, an attorney at the EFF.
The bill would require sites to offer easier methods of letting users prevent their behavior from being tracked online, warn users about data collection with a symbol on Web pages and require sites to render anonymous any data they collect after 18 months.
The unlimited carrier's network 4G upgrade has resulted in the introduction of two new Premium Data offerings for heavy data users looking for the ultimate in 4G data speeds and affordability.
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That invention, sometimes described as covering "data tapping, " allows users to grab data embedded in an unstructured form, like an address, and use it in another phone application, such as mapping.
Verizon has new plans that make payment for extra data usage very explicit: users buy monthly data usage buckets in 1-2 gigabyte (GB) increments, and this data charge is a large part of the bill.
In July 2009, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada investigated Facebook and discovered that it was sharing too much of users' personal data with app makers without informing users.
Big data lets users process large amounts of data very fast.
While carrier and other third party apps have helped iPhone users monitor their total data usage, there are no apps in the App Store that make it easy for users to make sense of their apps' data consumption... until now.
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Companies like QlikView and TIBCO Spotfire are attacking this weakness head on by providing data analysis and visualization capabilities that allow end-users to assemble data, connect it, and explore it.
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