Your Apps Are Watching You…AND Reporting Intimate Details Without Your Consent…

Your Apps Are Watching You A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users By SCOTT THURM and YUKARI IWATANI KANE Wall Street Journal, Sunday, December 18, 2010 Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the …

Journal: China Expands in Europe, US Shrinks….

Capitalizing on the Euro Crisis China Expands Its Influence in Europe By Wieland Wagner Der Spiegel, 14 December 2010 China is seizing on Europe’s debt problems to expand its influence on the continent with large-scale investments and purchases of government bonds issued by highly-indebted states. The strategy could push Europe into the same financial dependency …