Actually, it is new. As I touched on in my previous post, the iPhone has a single C function that returns the device's phone number. It is completely unrelated to the Address Book API, which does let you access the "me" record, if it's available. To be specific, the function is in the CoreTelephony framework, which is not a part of Mac OS X.
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iPhone Developers Accessing Users' Telephone Numbers for Telemarketing?
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Actually, it is new. As I touched on in my previous post, the iPhone has a single C function that returns the device's phone number. It is completely unrelated to the Address Book API, which does let you access the "me" record, if it's available. To be specific, the function is in the CoreTelephony framework, which is not a part of Mac OS X.
The iPhones phone number can also be edited on the sim card so that it shows a different phone number without actually changing the phone number of the phone itself. This is the number that iTunes shows and it is also the number shown at the top of the contacts list.
CHange the number by going to settings/Phone/My Number. Again editing this won't change the actual phone number of your phone, but only the number that is shown on the phone itself and in iTunes and it too should fool these apps....
Nothing new here, really.
http://aviary.com/bizblog/posts/idrive-spammed-my-gmail-contacts
Just because Apple is approving all the apps doesn't mean you can drop your guard.
As a side note to the above story, iDrive has not stopped spamming as they claimed. I got spammed by them at multiple addresses weeks after their claim they would stop.
http://aviary.com/bizblog/posts/idrive-spammed-my-gmail-contacts
Just because Apple is approving all the apps doesn't mean you can drop your guard.
As a side note to the above story, iDrive has not stopped spamming as they claimed. I got spammed by them at multiple addresses weeks after their claim they would stop.
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Well duh... so does every other phone in existence. Its sort of a necessary thing.
Well duh... so does every other phone in existence. Its sort of a necessary thing.