A Connecticut attorney is the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against a little-known California software company accused of embedding software in smartphones that monitors and shares personal information without a users’ consent.

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Trevor Eckhart, a Torrington security researcher, has set off a firestorm over his allegations that a diagnostic software company, CarrierIQ, is capturing the content of text messages and other personally identifiable information on hundreds of millions of mobile phones running the Google Android operating system.

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NASA’s latest Mars Rover, Curiosity, successfully blasted off to the red planet November 26 carrying two key components developed by Connecticut companies.

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As electric utilities faced Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s Two Storm Panel this week, at least one wireless telephone provider is working to avoid public scrutiny of their performance by the Connecticut Siting Council (CSC).

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It’s a small step, but it was met with enthusiasm by the state agency commissioners Thursday sick and tired of carrying around two cellphones all day because their personal phones can’t receive state email.

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Tags: information technology, Mark Raymond, cellphone, cloud

Most new jobs are created by new businesses, Steven Cochrane, a Moody’s Analytics economist, told the crowd gathered Thursday at the Connecticut Convention Center for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s “Economic Summit.”

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Tags: StartUp, connecticut, Malloy, jobs, economic summit, convention center, scott case

As Connecticut’s attorney general Richard Blumenthal took Google to task for gathering unprotected wireless information during its collection of data for “Street View.” As a member of a Senate antitrust subcommittee, Blumenthal Wednesday took the Internet giant to task again for its search policies—this time face to face.

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Tags: Google, Blumenthal, Schmidt, search, algorithm

A Connecticut startup waging a David vs. Goliath battle against search giant Google will have its day in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights takes a look at Google’s business practices.

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Tags: Technology, Google, Fairsearch, Kayak, Internet

Attorney George Jepsen said Wednesday that he never thought Internet privacy would rank so high up on his agenda until he took over the office in January.

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Tags: Internet privacy, task force, jepsen, attorney general, Google, Facebook

AT&T officials are not offering much information about why their cell phone service is offline throughout large portions of Connecticut, particularly those that were hit hardest by Tropical Storm Irene.

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