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Quick question: what's the one thing you should absolutely, positively do any time you trade in or return a piece of used tech? Answer: wipe the hard drive. If you already knew that, you might want to spread the word to your friends and neighbors, because Motorola forgot to wipe the info off of a bunch of used Xoom tablets it recently sold to enthusiastic Woot.com buyers. Oops!
"A bunch" is a relative statement, of course, as is the "around 100" number Motorola tosses out in its press release outlining the goof. Over 6,200 refurbished Wi-Fi tablets were sold by Woot.com during the affected period between October and December, so 100 isn't a terribly high percentage -- unless it's your info left on a Xoom hard drive, that is.
From Motorola's press release:
It is possible that users might have stored photographs and documents. They may have also stored user names and passwords for email and social media accounts, as well as other password-protected sites and applications.
To try and make things right, Motorola is offering anybody who bought, then returned a Xoom at Amazon Best Buy, BJ’s Wholesale, eBay, Office Max, Radio Shack, Sam’s Club, or Staples a free two-year membership in Experian’s ProtectMyID Alert. The company is also trying to track down the affected units and ensure that data from previous users is wiped. Read more at.... |
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As we've noted multiple times, it appears the entertainment industry still does not recognize what kind of beast it awoke with its efforts to shove through SOPA and PIPA. While it still believes it was the "tech community" that caused those bills to be shelved, it's been ignoring that a very large segment of internet users have been activated on these issues... and they're angry and willing to be proactive. We've pointed out that lots of attention has turned towards ACTA -- and while it's late in the process, don't underestimate the power of an awful lot of pissed off people who recognize that their internet is being messed with in a way that may harm their ability to communicate.
A bunch of folks have been setting up February 11th as a global day of protest against ACTA, and if the entertainment industry thought that the anger would simmer down after the SOPA/PIPA fight, they may have miscalculated again. Just take a look at the live map showing the planned February 11th protests across Europe:
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In case you can't see/interact with that, here's a screenshot version:
These are live, in-person protests that people are planning across Europe, and if you start clicking through, you see fairly amazing numbers of people committing to come out and protest -- even in places where you wouldn't expect huge numbers of people protesting. Take, for example, Sofia, Bulgaria where over 33,000 (!!!!) people have said they plan to show up with nearly another 10,000 listed as "maybe." Over in Valletta, Malta there are nearly 3,000 people saying they'll be there. These are not exactly protest hotbeds. As you go through the list, you realize just how widespread the opposition on ACTA is becoming -- and you wonder if the entertainment industry has any idea what it unleashed with it's terrible miscalculation with SOPA/PIPA.Permalink | Comments | Email This Story
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Dropbox has a lot of things going for it, but if you use the cloud storage service with any regularity, there's a good chance you'll bang up against the 2GB offered in the free version fairly quickly. (Assuming that you don't Gmail account chain trick outlined in our Dropbox Cheat Sheet, that is.) If you're chafing at your no-cost bonds, the service is giving you an opportunity to add up to another 5GB of space absolutely free -- if you're willing to be a guinea pig, that is.
Dropbox is still working out kinks in its as-yet-unreleased automatic photo and video upload support, you see. As this forum post outlines, if you download the experimental beta build (links found in aforementioned post), Dropbox will toss another 500MB of space your way the very first time you automatically upload a photo or video. After that, you'll get another 500MB of free storage space for every additional 500MB worth of photos/videos you upload. There's a 4.5GB cap on that, though, not counting the 500MB awarded for your original upload. Plenty of other tweaks and new features are also included in the build. (Thanks to Engadget for pointing the offer out.)
Dropbox also offers an Android version of the beta build, complete with all the same abilities and offers. It's not up in Android Market -- being a Beta build and all -- but you can nab the .apk file with this link that comes courtesy of Pocket Lint. Read more at.... |
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