Kaiser recommends people familiarize themselves with privacy policies and regularly update privacy settings on sites such as Facebook.

CNN: Heather Kelly,

There's no word on when the update will grace the 8X's brethren on other carriers, but if your smartphone happens to call the magenta network home, mosey on over to the "Phone Update" settings section to check for the fresh release.

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If the health certificate indicates a problem the computer could be prompted to download a missing patch or update its anti-virus settings.

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Update: In December 2009, Facebook changed its privacy settings, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg became a whole lot less private.

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In a blog about the "unscheduled" update, Oracle says it has changed Java's default security settings to "high" which it says means users will be notified of any extra applications which start running while they are browsing.

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Detailed in a message sent to testers this evening, there's also an update rolling out in the next 24 hours that upgrades video output to 1080p and exposes settings for the Echo like optical audio out, bitstreaming over HDMI or optical and diagnostics.

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Update: The Novatel PR Team has contacted me and informed me that you can go into settings and set 3G or 4G only mode (this pdf user manual has the details.) I suppose for people using just 4G this could mean loss of connectivity entirely rather than the annoying switch back and forth.

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