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The legislation designed to do away with printing various symbols and regulatory compliance numbers on our gadgets in favor of displaying those things within software has been signed into law. President Obama today signed the the E-Label Act, which was introduced by senators Deb Fisher (R-NEB) and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.VA) in July, and quickly made its way through both the House and Senate this fall. It allows manufacturers to put things like FCC symbols, ID numbers, and other labeling in a software menu, instead of physically printed or labeled on a device.

The app even checks your neighbor’s Wi-Fi and retrieves info on the router’s capabilities, frequency and SSID. News of the app’s vulnerability was first posted on Hacker News with the charming intro, “TLDR: Uber’s Android app is literally malware.” One developer commenting on the revelation said there isn’t “any reason for Google not to immediately remove this app from the store permanently and ban whatever developer uploaded it. There should probably be legal action.”

On a Republican presidential debate stage expected to be filled with more than a dozen current and former politicians, Carly Fiorina envisions herself standing out — as the only woman and the only CEO.

The social network says it will start collecting data on which apps its users have downloaded onto their phones. The update is opt-out, meaning Twitter will start collecting this information from users automatically unless they explicitly tell it otherwise.

RT @ScottStrazzante: Little Jack Harbaugh isn't much of a football fan. #sanfrancisco #49ers #NFL

Studies from Adobe, ChannelAdvisor and Custora indicate that Black Friday sales this year increased somewhere between 20.6 percent and 24 percent over 2013. Sales completed on tablets and mobile phones accounted for between 27 percent and 30 percent of all sales, according to these studies.

In their complaint (PDF), the music publishers describe the Cox network as an out-of-control den of piracy. "Today, BitTorrent systems are like the old P2P systems on steroids," BMG lawyers write. "Despite its published policy to the contrary, Cox's actual policy is to refuse to suspend, terminate, or otherwise penalize subscriber accounts that repeatedly commit copyright infringement through its network in any meaningful numbers."

This isn't the first time AT&T and Comcast have clashed over advertising. In 2012, the NAD told Comcast that it should stop calling AT&T's U-verse network "a bunch of old phone wires" and stop calling its own hybrid fiber-and-cable network an "advanced fiber optic network." Comcast continued disparaging AT&T in advertisements, leading to another warning from the NAD in October 2013.

But the vast majority of licensed images are up for grabs commercially – which means that Flickr is perfectly within its rights to start flogging them off. The site plans to handpick a few select photographers who will get 51% of the sales, but the vast majority of people will see their images printed onto canvas and sold for up to $49 a pop. The only credit they'll get is a small sticker at the bottom of the print bearing their name.

RT @Techmeme: Vox Media raises $46.5M from NY investment firm General Atlantic at a $380M valuation

RT @Techmeme: Vox Media raises $46.5M from NY investment firm General Atlantic at a $380M valuation

Xbox One beats PS4 on Black Friday, according to market-research firm

Intel Corp. will supply the electronic brains for a new version of Google Inc. ’s Glass device expected next year, people familiar with the matter said, part of a push by the semiconductor giant into wearable technology.

[UPDATE, Nov. 30, 11 a.m. Pacific: “Fury” now has been downloaded via piracy sites more than 1.2 million times, while “Annie” has topped 206,000 downloads by unique IP addresses, according to Excipio. Downloads of “Still Alice” stood at 103,832, followed by “Mr. Turner” at 63,379 and “To Write Love on Her Arms” at 19,946.]

That’s underscored by the amount Microsoft is paying, which we are hearing is north of $200 million. Acompli, an iOS and Android e-mail client, has been praised for being a great way to connect to Microsoft’s e-mail servers as well as to Google’s mail service. It’s the project of veterans from Zimbra and VMware, who felt that people look at a lot of e-mail on their phones but don’t take much action.

We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY. "Gangnam Style" has been viewed so many times we have to upgrade!

RT @Techmeme: FingerKey app lets you unlock your Mac using iPhone's TouchID fingerprint sensor (@jordankahn)

RT @Techmeme: FingerKey app lets you unlock your Mac using iPhone's TouchID fingerprint sensor (@jordankahn)

RT @Techmeme: Google sold more Chromebooks to US schools than Apple did iPads in Q3 (@chancehmiller)

RT @Techmeme: Google sold more Chromebooks to US schools than Apple did iPads in Q3 (@chancehmiller)

RT @Techmeme: iWork '14 review: minor updates, files aren't backwards compatible, no native collaboration

RT @Techmeme: iWork '14 review: minor updates, files aren't backwards compatible, no native collaboration

RT @Techmeme: Twitter introduces improved tools for reporting abuse, including simplified reporting process

RT @Techmeme: Twitter introduces improved tools for reporting abuse, including simplified reporting process

RT @Techmeme: Sony to Officially Name North Korea as Source of Hack Attack (@ahess247 / Re/code)

RT @Techmeme: Sony to Officially Name North Korea as Source of Hack Attack (@ahess247 / Re/code)