The head of a leading security software vendor denounced the use of data files commonly used by Google Inc. and other Web sites to track user activity, saying such sites should seek permission ahead of time. John Thompson, chief executive of Symantec Corp. in Cupertino, Calif., said the files, known as cookies, "are just as much an invasion of privacy as someone peering in my bedroom window." Most major Web sites - including Symantec's - use cookies in some fashion. Thompson said people are sometimes unaware a cookie had been created or what gets done with any information collected, such as to target advertising.
T-Mobile to handle German iPhone service
Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile will be the exclusive carrier for Apple Inc.'s iPhone in Germany, where the gadget will go on sale Nov. 9. The iPhone, a combined cell phone-iPod media player that also can wirelessly access the Internet, will cost 399 euros ($553), including Germany's 19 percent value-added tax, said Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Hamid Akhavan, head of the T-Mobile International division. The announcement came a day after Apple said the iPhone would go on sale in Britain on Nov. 9 with service from mobile operator O2. It debuted in the United States on June 29, with service exclusively through ATT Inc.
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