Please be correct when you flame.

It's logging not tracking and there is a significant difference.

This will not happen...

Google harvest this info, Apple lets it be your private info, and up to you to protect. So google model of erasing is pointless.

ignorant clod... there is an app on iOS devices, from Apple called Settings.

You know it's Apple so it's even more user friendly.

The operators are logging you constantly, wether you use the phone or not. Some nokias are even rumored to have a backdoor possibility to turn it on remotely. That would be over gsm.

But the authorities just need an warrant and they get your triangulated info from the operators. And remember that info is extremely precise compared to triangulation on the phone. They know the exact location of their towers. The phone does not.

1 Tower gives the quite precise distance to your phone from the tower, but not direction.
2 Towers gives 2 possible points of your location, that is distance from the towers in two possible directions, with extreme precision.
3 Towers gives one point with precise position of your whereabouts. More towers adds more precision.

GPS works the same way, just that i's not as precise as 3 gsm towers.

The Apples is not loggin GPS data either. Best accuracy so far is within a few hundred meters. An other reacercher found faults large nough to find this not even logging the correct state he was in.

If you ever traveled between california and nevada, you know what long distance road your up to. This was what he found. The iPhone had logged him to Nevada, while he still haven't been even close.

Just so u know, i'm a fin, i guess u too.

Jepp

This file is used for what, caching maybe... my strong belive is that the phone reads this database to determine what iAds it supposed to show you. This is why it's not erased IMHO.

Appel just sends out some tags, we got an add for NewYork Area, or if you been in NewYork during last 6 months. If the phone finds this true, it downloads the specific iAd and shows it in your iAd enabled Applications.

This is my firm belief why the file exists and what it's main usage is meant for and why it's not erased. Sure some other minor usages may also be there.

That is why Apple is serious about your privacy, Steve Jobs has an iPhone.

1) How exactly would they obtain this information....
2) Eh based on what information....
3) Eh again based on what information...

The original example is the most correct one of what can happen.

Frist they are not tracking.
Secondly they are logging.

Different things.

That is fully up to those who want to ship their software. They are allowed to ship freely to anyone. Still they have to pay the license.

Stupid, yes. But that is the legal case here.

First of all WebM is no standard, what standardizations committee governs it.

Google is no such thing.

So correcting your comment.

h.264 is a frozen standard.
WebM is frozen.

What ever that means.

That not same as App or Apps or App Store... :P

Seriously though, as I know my self I've used the word "Application" but that does not mean that a few others may have privately used App.

The issue is that it wasn't generally used. Even I have inveted expressions that some of my friends now use frequently. Not in english though. But would you claim that is a word for general use? No. Especially as it a play with 2 other words, where one is just a common expression but not a real word.

Now should that be considered as a legitimated word? NO! It's not. Could still be trademarked if I wanted to. If words or expressions are trademarkable, why not this one too.

Just as Apple says, Windows is a general word too in that case. And in that case Lindows would been fully legible name for that distro.

Ever heard of development... one version may be free, the next may not.

I don't load the flash at utube at all if not h.264 is available. Most vids are available directly as h.264 without flahs.

No doubt is flash worse than webm, it' s difficult to make anything crappier than flash.

But still h.264 is the king.

err... just be patient and the world as u know it has changed.