Today's Mobile Minute brings you news about the continuous lack of Facebook privacy, the disagreement between IDC and Nokia on Nokia sales figures in India, a ranking of the top five free Android apps for journalists, a TNS study that found social media trumps e-mail as the most popular use for online mobile activity, and mapping indoor spaces with smartphone apps.
- Users who access Facebook from the iPhone app could be at risk of unknowingly publishing their (and their contacts') private phone numbers on Facebook. The Guardian reports that, "The reason: Facebook's "Contact Sync" feature, which synchronises your friends' Facebook profile pictures with the contacts in your phone. [...] A more recent version of the app shows that it does download "your friends' profile photos and other info from Facebook" to add to your iPhone address book," and then imports the contacts on users' phones and uploads them to the Facebook Phonebook app. (via Textually)
- The Wall Street Journal is covering yet another breach of Facebook security – an investigation found that users of many of the social network's most popular apps have had their data transmitted to third parties such as advertisers and Internet tracking companies. The investigation found that "three of the top 10 apps [...] have also been transmitting personal information about a user's friends to outside companies."
- IDC, a market intelligence firm, reports that Nokia's market shares in India have fallen from 54% in 2009 to 36.3% today. However, Nokia claims that the figure only accounts for shipments of phones, and does not account for actual sales. (via Dan Sinker)
- The tech journalism blog 10,000 Words recently ranked the top five free Android apps for journalists. They were: Qik (for live video), Wordpress for Android (for blogging), Photoshop Express (for photo editing), Voice Task (for audio recording), and Evernote (for note taking). The article reviews each app and lists the apps' features.
- Research firm TNS studied the online activities of roughly 50,000 people in 46 countries and found that "mobile users spend 1.4 times as many hours using social networking sites than reading and responding to e-mail," reports Mashable.
- The New York Times reports on the rising number of app developers who design maps of indoor spaces like malls, stadiums, and airports and how these apps are developed.
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