A senior executive at RIM has provided instructions on how to remove Carrier IQ software from its devices. The instructions are part of the BlackBerry Knowledge Base, under the general entry for Continue reading…
We've just returned from a long and wide-ranging interview with Carrier IQ's Vice President of Marketing, Andrew Coward. We'll have much more on that discussion soon, but first there is one piece of Continue reading…
We've just received official word from Google about the Carrier IQ saga that has been blowing up the blogosphere today. In addition to confirming our report last night that Nexus devices do not Continue reading…
Apple is the latest company to distance itself from the Carrier IQ smartphone tracking software. Although references to Carrier IQ were found in iOS, Apple says "most" of its products don't support Continue reading…
HTC just sent us a statement about the Carrier IQ smartphone tracking software — it says it has no formal relationship with Carrier IQ, but that the software is "required on devices by a number of Continue reading…
After a flurry of statements from carriers and manufacturers who claim not to install the Carrier IQ tracking software, we've finally gotten an official statement from Sprint, which admits to using Continue reading…
Almost inevitably, the government is waking up to the Carrier IQ smartphone tracking story: Senator Al Franken, Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and Law, has asked Continue reading…
RIM just issued a statement saying it doesn't install the Carrier IQ smartphone tracking software, nor does it authorize carrier partners to install it. (It does appear that Carrier IQ supports the Continue reading…
If you have a rooted Android device then you can check it for the Carrier IQ rootkit right now. Trevor Eckhart, aka, TrevE over at xda-developers, the security researcher who exposed the whole Continue reading…
The Carrier IQ smartphone tracking scandal continues to grow, but we've just learned some interesting news from an extremely reliable source: the Google Nexus One, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, and the Continue reading…
