The year of 2011 is over and now it's 2012. Last year like many other years was a huge year for consumer electronics and technology. At ZL Studios we wrote thousands of blog posts over the past year covering what has been going on in depth. We've written so much that it might be difficult for you … [Read more...]
T-Mobile Has Nine Phones With Carrier IQ, And 450,000 Customers With Carrier IQ
December 23, 2011 By
Both AT&T and Sprint have been forced to give up the specific details relating to Carrier IQ. So it looks like it's now T-Mobile's turn to give us a little more information on Carrier IQ. If you don't remember Carrier IQ is basically a type of keylogger installed on many smartphones that logs … [Read more...]
Sprint Says They Have Disabled Carrier IQ On Their Smartphones
December 16, 2011 By
We last heard that Sprint used Carrier IQ on their smartphones in order to help improve their network. And just recently we learned that Sprint actually has Carrier IQ installed on about 29 million of their smartphones which is quite a few for a carrier like Sprint which isn't all that big. Carrier … [Read more...]
Carrier IQ Is Installed On 26 Million Sprint Phones And 900K AT&T Phones
December 16, 2011 By
Carrier IQ if you aren't familiar is basically a type of rootkit found on many smartphones on all of the top carriers in the United States and probably in other countries as well. The rootkit logs the keystrokes and basically collects information on what you are doing on your smartphone. However we … [Read more...]
The FBI Is Using Carrier IQ Data For Law Enforcement Purposes
December 12, 2011 By
A couple of weeks ago Carrier IQ all of a sudden became a really big deal since we figured out what Carrier IQ is exactly. It's basically a keylogger or rootkit that logs all of the things you do on your smartphone. There are more than 141 million smartphones with this rootkit installed and carriers … [Read more...]
Google’s Eric Schmidt Says Carrier IQ Is A Keylogger
December 9, 2011 By
We heard a whole lot about Carrier IQ last week. But since then the news on Carrier IQ has started to slow down. If you aren't familiar Carrier IQ is a program that is installed on most modern smartphones It tracks what you are doing on your smartphone and reports that information back to somewhere, … [Read more...]
Leaked Document Lists T-Mobile Smartphones With Carrier IQ
December 5, 2011 By
AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile all use Carrier IQ to help improve their networks. So if you are on one of those carriers chances are your smartphone has Carrier IQ installed. But there is also a chance that it doesn't. We still don't know everything there is to know about the tracking software … [Read more...]
ZL Podcast #51 – Everything About Carrier IQ, Next Gen iPhone And Apple TV, 15-Inch MacBook…
December 3, 2011 By
This week we launched or Best Tech Of 2011 polls where we ask you what your favorite gadgets are in various categories. From smartphones, to tablets, to operating systems and software. The voting will be done through the whole month of December and on January 1st, 2012 we'll post the results of the … [Read more...]
Test Your Android Smartphone For Carrier IQ Without Rooting It
December 2, 2011 By
Yesterday a Carrier IQ tester app became available for Android. The big flaw with the app was the fact that it required root access on Android which isn't something everyone has, not every wants or knows how to root their Android smartphone. But the good news is that there is another app now … [Read more...]
Google Confirms That They Have Nothing To Do With Carrier IQ
December 2, 2011 By
We got some true but not official information yesterday that Google's lineup of pure Google Nexus smartphones and the Motorola Xoom don't have Carrier IQ. Today Google made it all official by saying what they have to say about Carrier IQ on their devices. As you know Google develops the open … [Read more...]
