Jailbreakers also gave users the ability to copy and paste text months before iOS 3 did.

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And inside the container the user is able to share data between business apps (e.g. copy and paste text from an email into a CRM record), but corporate IT would of course not want data inside the container copy-and-pasted onto a non-container app such as Twitter or Facebook.

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Additionally, sites like Wired.com, PerezHilton, Technorati, and the HuffingtonPost use Javascript to look at what visitors do on their pages, including where they click, where their mouse moves, and what text they copy and paste, a practice not mentioned by Wired, for one, in its privacy policy.

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One slight annoyance though comes if you just want to highlight some text for a copy and paste job, as you will have to remember to click out of the hyperwords menu before you can continue.

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