Facebook plans to allow third party apps and sites access to your email address and telephone number have been put on ice after warnings from security experts pointed out the juicy pickings they’d be offering for rogue developers. But could it still make a return?
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Yesterday we did a quick straw poll to ask how many of you, our readers, were planning to leave T-Mobile at the end of your contract, or if any of you had jumped ship already in the data debacle. To our surprise, 57 per cent of you said you were going to leave T-Mobile, and a whopping 31 per cent said that you had already jumped ship. While intentions might ultimately lead to users staying, given the incentives mobile networks offer, it’s a strong indicator of the opinion of T-Mobile users after the blunder. Only 8 per cent of readers who voted said that you were happy on T-Mobile, and used less than 500MB a month, and only 4 per cent said that you were happy to pay extra for data.
This week, fair usage policies have come under the spotlight. T-Mobile made a major blunder, and capped its fair usage policy for new, upgrading and existing users. This angered T-Mobile customers, in particular, the ones who were getting their data allowance rolled back mid-contract, some of them by a fair chunk. After a swift backlash, and the realisation it was breaking the law, T-Mobile did a U-turn within two days of the original announcement.
This week T-Mobile announced it was capping its fair usage policy for mobile data to 500MB for all customers, including those with existing contracts. Customers were up in arms, and accused T-Mobile of breaking the terms of their contracts by changing the fair usage policy part way through. T-Mobile then retracted, saying the 500MB data cap would only apply to new and upgrading customers from 1 Feb. If you’re on T-Mobile has this been enough to make you want to jump ship when your contract comes up? Is data the new network battleground? Click and tell…
Remember that Windows Phone 7 data bug? We told you about it yesterday and now Microsoft has told the BBC that it is investigating the issue. Microsoft says there’s a fix on the way and told the BBC that it is “investigating the issue to determine the root cause and will update with information and guidance as it becomes available.” That’s good news but what about the people whose Windows Phone 7 devices munched right through their data allowances? Will Microsoft be offering compensation? We’re investigating.
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This is the second cheap iPad contract deal we’ve had in recent weeks. First, we had the cheap iPad contract deals from Everything Everywhere, the new name for Orange and T-Mobile, now comes the iPad deal from Three, which floors the competition.
Facebook has added a new feature that activists have been crying out for for ages: you can now simply get the messages, photos, videos, friends lists, events info and notes from your Facebook account onto your computer. The new option will pack all the items up into a Zip file which can be opened and viewed in your web browser of choice. Result!
The iPhone 4 jailbreak finally allows you to make FaceTime 3G calls. But while fooling your iPhone 4 into thinking your 3G connection is a Wi-Fi hotspot is simple, you might want to think twice before you start video chatting yourself into a frenzy. FaceTime 3G calls chew through data faster than an emotionally unstable fat man presented with a pile of pies and a picture of his cheating wife. Read on for how to get FaceTime 3G calls on your jailbroken iPhone 4 and why you might not want to…