It is a known fact that some iPhone apps have been specifically designed to track your geographical location through time, then upload that data to Pinch Media. The company uses this system to inform developers of the number of distinct users who’ve accessed the application, how long it has been used, and so on. Since a number of apps even disclose gender & age to Pinch Media, some now believe they can be considered spyware.

A post on the iPhone Dev Team’s blog caught our attention earlier today. The team of hackers points out to an iPhone app that asks you for permission to use your location.

“If you tap ‘Don’t Allow’, it will ask you again in about a minute, the next time its ad changes,” the team explains. “So you either stop using this app (because it pesters you so much about the location question), or you finally submit and tap ‘OK.’ From that point on, your location and path info (your actual physical path through your area each time you launch the app) belongs to Pinch Media, Inc. We think that’s a Pinch too much,” the Dev Team shares.

According to other people who’ve done some digging up, Pinch Media’s SQL info may include gender and birthday information, which is why they have gone so... ()

Wireless carrier Sprint announced on Friday that Sprint customers could enjoy an enhanced sports experience, as the company had teamed with ESPN for the delivery of ESPN Mobile TV on Sprint TV. According to the operator, Sprint customers can already enjoy unparalleled live sports programming and entertainment via Sprint handheld ...

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm announced last week the release of a new version of its Facebook application for handsets powered by the webOS platform, and now it has made a new Facebook Beta application for the OS available for download. Even if released only a few days after the ...

Canadian mobile-phone maker Research In Motion is reportedly getting ready to release a series of updates for its BlackBerry Tour handset, updates that should land in April and May it seems, in the form of an OS upgrade and a hardware refresh. It seems that the BlackBerry Tour 9650, or ...

Mobile-phone carrier Vodafone UK seems set to bring as many Android-based handsets as possible to its customers. Among them, we can count the Nexus One by HTC, a device that will be sold exclusively via Google's web store, as well as the HTC Desire and Legend, two Android 2.1-based phones ...

Wireless carrier 3 UK is reportedly getting ready for the launch of a number of no less than six handsets powered by Google's Android operating system, the latest news around the web suggests. It seems that the operator is set to enhance its offering of handsets powered by Google's mobile ...

Finnish mobile-phone maker Nokia has just updated one of the software solutions for its users, namely the Nokia Ovi Player, which has reached version 2.1. The application, which has been formerly known as Nokia Music, offers users the possibility to organize and transfer the music they like between a Windows ...

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft and Finnish handset vendor Nokia announced two years ago plans to work together on delivering Silverlight to Nokia handsets powered by the Symbian operating system, and it seems that the solution is almost here. A beta version of Silverlight for Symbian is expected to soon be ...