For the past couple of weeks in the smartphone community, there’s been a buzz over a piece of software that’s supposedly put onto phones by carriers that tracks your movements as you use your phone. Data such as account names, phone numbers and location data and more are reported to be collected by this piece of software. Supposedly, these pieces of data are collected so the carriers (e.g. Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.) can more properly ‘fine-tune’ the experience of their phones in the future. This past week, it was announced that this piece of software had a name… which is ‘CarrierIQ’.

SO WHAT EXACTLY IS CARRIERIQ?

Well, CarrierIQ made a press release which stated that their software DOES NOT do the following -

• Does not record your keystrokes.
• Does not provide tracking tools.
• Does not inspect or report on the content of your communications, such as the content of emails and SMSs.
• Does not provide real-time data reporting to any customer.
• Finally, we do not sell Carrier IQ data to third parties.

An Android security expert named Trever Eckhart published a video in response to CIQ’s press release which seemingly contradicts just about all of the above. In the 17 minute long video, Eckhart goes through and in real-time shows how keystrokes are recorded including phones numbers dialed, secure website (HTTPS) data is sent unencrypted, text message data is accessed and of course that you really don’t know that this app is running. The analysis was performed on a stock Sprint EVO 3D and EVO 4G. The really disturbing thing is the fact that 1) you aren’t told about it 2) can’t uninstall the software.

SO WHO IS AFFECTED BY CARRIERIQ?

As of right now, it turns out that BlackBerry phones, iPhones and most Android phones are affected by CarrierIQ. You might be wondering what I mean when I say ‘most’ Android phones. What I mean are phones that aren’t Google’s ‘Nexus’-branded phones (such as the Nexus One, Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus). Android phones branded by HTC and Samsung are allegedly currently putting CarrierIQ onto their phones at the request of phone carriers.

According to this article at Pocketnow.com, it seems that iPhone users are not safe either… according to this quote -

Apple bundles CarrierIQ into their OS — as has since version 3.0. It’s reportedly not identical to the Android/RIM version, and can supposedly be opted-out of, or disabled at any time. Go to Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage and choose “Don’t send” and you’re free and clear of the software’s all-seeing eyes.

So if you’re an iPhone user, it’s a lot easier to be released from the hands of CarrierIQ than if you use Android or BlackBerry phones. The article from Pocketnow that I linked above is a good read and raises some great questions regarding carriers and CarrierIQ itself.

WHAT ABOUT WINDOWS PHONE?

UPDATE: (about 30 mins after this post was published) Jim Belfiore, the man who oversees Windows Phone design and software development posted the following on Twitter -

“Since people are asking– Windows Phones don’t have CarrierIQ on them either.”

So there you go… cut and dry answer!
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As it turns out, according to Windows Phone developer/ChevronWP7 member Rafael Rivera, he was quoted on Twitter as saying -

“I have found no evidence to suggest CIQ is present on any Windows Phone device. Let’s hope it stays that way.”

For those who don’t know who Rafael is, he is one of the most well known members of the Windows Phone development community. He’s known to rip into Microsoft sofware and break both positive and negative news about Windows Phone (and other Microsoft products).

According to another good article written by WPCentral.com -

At this time, Windows Phone seems to be exempt from such software as we have seen no reports nor evidence to make us believe this is an issue with our OS. That seems to be because Windows Phone OS is controlled by Microsoft directly and OEMs/Carriers cannot significantly alter the base code. Still, we’re contacting some people who may know more on the topic, so we’ll keep you posted.

In this day and age where people SHOULD BE vigilent of their privacy and security, it seems that most people simply are not. Certain companies are taking it upon themselves to take advantage of people and get the information they need behind our backs. Thankfully, there are those that can read between the lines and find out things that the rest of us don’t know about. What the rest of us should be doing is taking notice of these findings and learn to look around us and become more knowledgeable about these kind of things.

Hopefully this post educated you a little bit and you are now more knowledgeable about what CarrierIQ and what the big deal really is about.

We had a really fun show last night!

We talked about:
Five Insane Ways Masturbation Shaped The Modern World That made most of the men cringe!!

New Google Powered Vibrator which turned into a bidding war to raise money to bribe Maryanne and Rikki to test it out, live on the show. (we’re up to $800.00 right now haha)

Sinead O’Connor wants to commit suicide and asks her fans for ideas and we see that mother nature hasn’t been very kind to her. She’s looking for a man to have daily sex with and we figured out that Doug is the perfect match for her.

Man gives wife steroids to make her ugly to stay at home

Parent of the Week: Mother leaves 2 year old in car, child goes missing

Are women really attracted to other women?

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October 10th, 2011 Show Rundown

Segment 1

We begin this show very happy, which is not normal. Mike is very happy his 49ers beat the Buccaneers by 40 points and Hammy is happy his beloved Green Bay Packers are 5-0

Hammy quickly gets annoyed and says he almost got into a physical confrontation with a (looked like one) crackhead mom because he didn’t buy candy from her kid. Hammy says even if he did have cash on him, he didn’t want any candy.

Back to NFL talk, Michael Irvin said on NFL network last night that the Packers COULD go 16-0. As excited as Hammy is by that announcement, they won’t do it. We compare this Packers team with the 2007 Patriots, who did go 16-0, but thankfully lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl

We then vent a little bit about a station that WAS going to syndicate us, but snubbed us and ignored us.

Hammy explains that the owner of the station hasn’t downloaded Lust N Love (which is syndicated there) in months and claims that a former EdgeFM host might have said something, but he doesn’t know yet.

We re-tell the story of learning what kind of person Frank from HNB, our old station, is. Hammy say’s Frank gave him a “manager” position, yet all he wanted Hammy to do was spy on other shows and find out who is trashing the station.

Hammy tells a story about talking to Cluster F Radio, among other shows, to start our own internet station, but Frank prevented that from happening.

Hammy say’s last weeks Royce & Falcone was some of the funniest bashing free-for-all radio he’s ever heard and no one on the show was safe.

We talk about The Fifth Circle, which Hammy say’s did a fantastic job at pointing out the many flaws of the people that are protesting. (Listen to the show yourself
Here
)

We also give a big shoutout to Derek, who was the “man on the street” that made this entire show happen. Follow him
@Derek712

After some more talk about the protesters, we read the
“Non-Official” list of demands the protesters are calling for.

A few callers, Royce from Hippojuice among them, give feedback to the conversation.

Realizing that we’ve been going for almost 2 hours on this topic, we finally go on a break

Song Break

Segment 2

Doug Brian (on Skype) reveals he once paid for a hand job.

We discussed the angry priest that is trying to prevent New York
naming a street after George Carlin. Doug say’s it’s bullshit that some controversial race leaders have streets named after them and Carlin can’t get any recognition.

The conversation turned to the psychopath filled family known as the Duggars, who have their own TLC show just because they have a lot of children. Oh, they believe humans and dinosaurs existed together just like The Flinstones, among other ridiculous bible beliefs…

We took a look at some of their other religious beliefs and their “buddy” system, meaning the mother has so many children, that the older children have to help look after the small children. We read an interview they gave after their most recent child was born 3 months early, where the mother said they would welcome more children. We find out that before baby 2, the mother had a miscarriage. She believes “the Lord will tell her when to stop having babies”.

Doug thinks one of the older daughters, Jessa, is hot. Well, we agree…

We discussed the new iPhone 4S, and how it didn’t WOW us like Apple said it would. Hammy say’s it will be impressive if it performs at 4G speeds without needing a 4G network like Apple say’s it would, then it will be the leader of the mobile phones. Hammy also say’s the camera and Siri will be the big selling features. We take a look at the video demonstration of Siri, and we are scared by how intelligent the technology is…

We finish the show debating which amateur rap song is worse, “Who Got Dat Work” by Cashville Money Squad or our favorite fat dumb rapper, Locomotive Curt…

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Topic of the night is masturbation!
Does he masturbate too much?

We discuss how long is too long for sex to last (Starting at foreplay)

Doug tells about his drunken weekend and how he literally dodged death

The boys give the ladies a quiz Guy Phrases Translated

Tara from Florida calls in with an funny story about a peculiar finding when they swab cheek cells in bio class

Parent of the Week: Child Brings Mom’s Crack Pipe For Show-And-Tell

We answer Listener Questions from our Formspring:
If Maryanne and Rikki had to lez out with a celebrity who would it be? In you gals opinion does size really matter?

I wanted to know if Hammy was single he sounds like the perfect person for my chubby chaser self. I’m a male 45 looking for a friend *wink*

What are your feelings about people only having sex with one partner and then marrying them?

Good Evening to my favorite internet radio show! My wife and I have a wonderful sex life if you consider 1 time every 3 months wonderful! What do you have for suggestions when 1 partners sex drive is much lower than the others to spice things up?

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Every person who lost their life in the events of 9/11, no matter where they were, they are remembered by EDGE FM.

Beginning this past Monday, you might have noticed a new profile picture on our Facebook and Twitter accounts.. as well as status updates with the last few words saying ‘EDGE FM Talks’. You might have wondered, ‘What’s that about?’ Quite simply, it’s our new campaign to push that EDGE FM is different than the other plethora of stations around the web.

We are obviously a talk station… we have been since April 2008 and will remain so for as long as possible. Since the format change back in 2008 to around-the-clock talk, we have been a very strong source for talk programming with a taste of something for everybody. We’ve had shows on the station ranging from male-oriented talk/hot talk, relationship talk, sports talk, random/news-related talk and more.

EDGE FM is centered on focusing about talk that people of all demographics can relate to in some form. It doesn’t necessarily have to be raunchy or ‘over the top’ to be good talk radio. Radio is (and should always be) in my opinion ‘theater of the mind’. Creating that spark with the audience using just the human voice is a talent that in my opinion has been lost over the past decade or so in radio. People have been too much relying on visual aids to connect with the audience, picking fights with other people/shows/stations, or overloading on social media such as Facebook or Twitter and the magic of radio has been lost. Creating the audience connection using purely voice is a craft, and with the Internet having such untapped potential for radio in a new form, maybe it’s time to return to the roots of radio.

In essence, the ‘EDGE FM talks’ slogan is a reflection upon who we are as a station and my outlook toward the future. We are YOUR Internet talk station and while I’m not speaking for all of the shows, it is my goal to run a station that once more can create that spark with the listener. Even if it’s just through one show.

We are the place where talk lives, and talking is what we do, better than anyone else in my opinion. We hope you feel the same way. Thanks for listening to our station and checking out our programming. To tweak the title of a David Essex song…

Talk On.

As you may have noticed, we’ve been sprucing up the site a bit. Moving things around, tweaking things and just giving a bit of polish to what’s around the site. We also just took the opportunity to slim down our mobile listening page a bit. Rather than break down how to listen by platform, we gave a one-size-fits-all solution so things are less confusing.

As you may have heard on the different shows here on EDGE FM (like the Mike & Sal Show), all of us here highly recommend the ‘TuneIn Radio’ app. It’s freely available for the many smartphone platforms currently out on the market (Windows Phone 7, Android, etc.) as well as most of the Internet TV recievers people use at home (Roku, Google TV, etc.).

The app has the same interface across most of the platforms, making it simple to pick up and use. It also houses THOUSANDS of radio stations from all over the world. AM/FM/HD and Internet stations are easy to find, all through this one app. Rather than having SEPERATE apps for different radio stations (ex. iHeartRadio, Radio.com, etc.), TuneIn makes most of those stations centrally available through it’s app! Like we said earlier, it’s also a FREE app, there is no cost to use the app (aside from the monthly cost of the data plan for your smartphone).

We’re not getting paid to promote this app (yet! *wink*), we just think it’s a great way to enjoy traditional radio and Internet radio all through one easy-to-use application that’s available for most devices out on the market.

OH, and did we mention… you can also use TuneIn’s website to listen to the same stations right through your desktop browser! Whether you use Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera, you can listen to stations from around the world without having to remember individual site URLs. Just go right to tunein.com!

Doug Brian of The Filler Show (Tuesdays 9pm-12am right here on EdgeFm.net) joined us once again!

We start off talking about Doug’s dry spell and debating whether a dry spell is no sex at all or just not having sex with a new partner.

The theme for tonight was Sex Myths. We discussed the myths from the articles below:

Top Nine Sex Myths You Need to Know

6 Ridiculous Sex Myths (That Are Actually True)

Urban Legends-Sex and Scandal

Doug says, although he cannot find any proof to back it up, that when you fart, the anus opens up, sucks air in, in order to push the gas out. We decided that Doug has a magical asshole and can make it queef on command.

Sex Myths submitted from the listeners:

• SEX Myth: Douching with Coca-Cola is supposed to kill sperm; although this is true, it is not recommended as it can cause harm to the reproductive track. PLEASE ADVISE YOUR LISTENERS NOT TO TRY THIS!!
• Sex Myth-you can use Saran Wrap as a condom if you dont have one. FALSE! (trust me, it doesn’t work well AT ALL!)
• Sex Myth: Pulling out before you blow your load will prevent pregnancy. FALSE! Pre-cum has sperm in it so you can get your partner pregnant, even if you pull out. (thats for you DOUG) :)
• From Richard Gere shoving gerbils up his ass to the peanut butter lady and her dog, this is a must download show! Go to http://brainstumedia.com/ under “media” to download last night’s show as well as all the other shows Brainstu Media has to offer!

  We’re in a commercial sex beat off” competition with The Clutch and Wiggle Experience (Thursdays 8-10pm on EdgeFm.net) Here’s the music selection we chose for this week’s break:

  Darling Nikki-Prince
  
  The Fuck Shop-2 Live Crew
  
  What’s Your Fantasy-Ludacris
  

  We have a special announcement!! Doug will be our PERMANENT 4th mic on the show after he heals his special fried rice! Please join us in welcoming him to the Lust N Love family! Yay Dougalicious!

To hear the following shows visit www.FillerRadio.com/archive.html

December 21 2010
Its The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, until people prove otherwise. Doug and Koof exchange Christmas gifts. ITS T-SHIRT TIME! Edge FM T-shirts come in and Koof takes a trip to Sal & Rikki’s house to pick them up. Model Queen Esther missed her interview because of East Coast and West Coast Time mix up. A follower of ours calls in to talk about twitter and the listeners don’t play too nice. Rape or death? Anal or Mouth Rape? Fun ways to kill people… uh what?

December 14 2010
We talk about our favorite current and past TV series. 21 Things “HE” Thinks but won’t tell you. We talk about why white people can’t have a racial discussion with black people. Koof doesn’t think there are as many bad people on the internet as others do. As we get closer to Christmas we continue to explore the greatness of humanity with, Its the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year segment. We also talk about how adults seem to care less about things we thought were gross and wouldn’t want people to find out if we were younger.

December 07 2010
We talk about the link between Estrogen in tap water through the 60′s to today and its possible effect of adding to the gay population. Koof tries the new Trojan Fire and Ice condom. Koof lost the first series of the Bio Warfare, 4-3 the series ends, he accepts his consequence. And Its The Most Wonderful Time of the Year and we prove so by sharing great acts by the human race during this holiday month. We talk to Maryanne of Lust N Love Radio (Mon 9pm www.Edgefm.net) after Koof flubs on a segment. And a caller tells use about “her friends” uncircumcised love interest dilemma.

November 30 2010
Gays in the Military, Lesbians. Teacher loses 27 pounds on a Twinkies Diet. Midget Porn is a better option than child porn. Derek Anderson has too much fun on the sidelines & Tom Brady has hair plugs (allegedly). We play scrabble on air and Susan Boyle is hideous. A shot of Piss is taken.

November 23 2010
The show starts a little late due to cry baby Koof going to a Wake. Doug gets a gun, Koof wants one. Bio Warfare has Koof in the lead 3-2. Is Twitter flirting or sex-ting cheating? What professions do you think would turn a man gay?

November 16 2010
We touched on a few StupiT News articles involving a Korean teen who murdered his mother and killed himself because of video games & the actual Devil attacked a school. The BiO Warfare continues as Koof lost this week and the best of 7 series is tied 2-2, he received his Hack Hat of Hell consequence. Doug wants to know if Masturbating is a gay act after a certain point. Michael Vick is out Dawg! Doug has some Celebrity News exclusives you won’t find elsewhere. Airport Security under fire or some leaked images. Koof goes out to dinner with his girlfriends family and well his girlfriend breaks some news to them about there past.

November 09 2010
We play the Lying Game, battle it out with our weekly I hate You segment. Koof is just finding out who Mike Tyson is. The BiO Warfare debacle is cleared up and some one picks from the HAT OF HACK HELL! A missile Johnson leaves a Cum trail. Eel Porn makes its Filler Show debut.

October 26 2010
Recurring Topic: Racism. From a Guy who is ignorant (Ten Things I Don’t Understand About Black People writer) to Two Guys (Doug & Koof) who are slightly less ignorant, back to a guy (Caller Derek) who tops them all and make the second two guys look like saints. Yay or Nay Returns along with I Hate You. Doug picks from the “Hat from Hell” (Hack ::cough::) fro his consequence or losing Bio WarFare round Two.

October 19 2010
Koof has Ringworm & Doug popped his own Cauliflower ear. Women take more sick days then Men do. If you could Punch one public figure in the face, who would it be? An 82 year old woman caught doing 110mph. Also a Goat kills a man!

October 12 2010
McDonald’s Weddings, Women’s Make-up, Tipping the Waiter & Delivery person. Do you think you Girlfriend or wife get Insulted If you tell Them they look like a Celebrity or someone you know?

October 05 2010
Doug celebrates his birthday with a Hooker MMA fight. Koof has a new food product, Poon Pie. Is it hard for the average person to be “Happy”. Would you be able to care for a mentally challenged kid?

September 28 2010
We touch on some depression and drug chit chat, Doug bombs with his lady friend’s family. Doug Brian updates his facebook with racist status’. What find out what men really mean from a M.D. point of view. What is the most difficult animal to kill with an arrow?

September 21 2010
National Anthem screw ups, Comedy Central Censorship, Doug’s bladder is infected with pussy juice and cum & Koof gets some Girlfriend advice.

September 14 2010
Student suspended for red eyes, but it was from tears of his father’s murder, not weed. Musician smashes guitar over friends head. 6 year old expelled for toy gun. Animal cruelty and human hilarity videos. Sexy reporter and NFL scores and thoughts. Koof finds old audio clips of Doug as a caller on The Dog House.

August 30 2010
Top 20 Most Googled women. 99 Filler Show Balloons. A 21 year old man sneaks on to a 13-14 league football team.

August 16 2010
Dr. Laura says the N-word about 40 times. Girls hit puberty a lot younger. Tila Tequila hit with shit on stage. And Foreskin. YAY

August 09 2010
Doug finds the greatest Cheaters website ever. Koof Found his final high school report card. We rank the Top 5 US Assassinations dating back to 1865.

August 02 2010
Koof fell in LOVE?! … with a girl??!?!

July 26 2010
We made our return and talked to our friend Uncle Eddie from Ham Radio, as Ham Radio recently was terminated from there radio home.

January 03 2010
We recorded this show from the Goom Radio Studio with Program Director Joey V sitting in as 3rd Mic. Dick Clark visits the show in-studio!

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If you follow our FACEBOOK or TWITTER, you might have noticed us posting some information up about some missing girls from New Jersey. Well, it’s about time we put this up on the website here at edgefm.net. This isn’t going to be a lengthy post, we just want to put the details and pictures out there to try and have these girls FOUND. We support the communities of our listeners and do our best to serve those communities in our own ways. So let’s get going with the details…

UPDATE: [12/21/10 6pm eastern] BOTH girls have been found! All we know right now is that the two girls were found in Connecticut. We don’t know any of the other details as to how they got there or what happened, but once we recieve the information, we will post it RIGHT HERE!

HERE IS THE MISSING PERSONS FLYER -

Thank you to everyone who was involved in the search!