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Podcast - 4th May 2011

This week's podcast returns to the subject of iPhone tracking before moving on to BlackBerry news, Nokia's reorganisation and mobile payments. There's also a look back to 2008, when virtual network Blyk announced its first 100,000 UK customers.

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Three-quarters of US mobile application downloaders are using Apple or Android

The Nielsen Company has revealed recent research about mobile applications in the USA.

Its survey of mobile app downloaders - people who've downloaded an app in the past 30 days - shows that 74% of these people either have an Android device or an Apple iPhone.

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Apple explains its iPhone location data policy

Following recent concerns about the use of location-based information on the iPhone - a topic we covered in today's podcast - Apple has published a set of questions and answers about its use of location data.

The company insists it is "not tracking the location of your iPhone" and has never done this.

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iPhones track their users, say researchers

Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan have told the Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco that Apple's iPhone monitors and records its location as it's used.

It appears that the phone's latitude and longitude, along with the time, are stored in a file that can be synchronised with the user's computer.

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Anti-virus researcher warns that mobile malware is a growing threat

Kaspersky Lab has recently released pan-European research that shows many people feel more secure using smartphones to surf the internet than PCs... yet those people are less likely to have security software on their phones than on their computers.

In this week's podcast we talk to David Emm, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab UK, about this research.

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