This morning, Sprint pushed a new default mobile portal called Sprint Web to around 40 of their handset models, with plans to bring it to all models within the next few weeks.
Built on technology developed by ChangingWorlds, Sprint Web takes a stab at what it thinks the viewer finds most important based off of past usage patterns, and places it at the top of the page. (Anyone wanna take bets on how long it’ll be before someone screams “ZOMG PRIVACY VIOLATION!!!”?)
They also added a Google-powered search box to the top of the page, right where it should be. Does anybody really use portals for anything besides search anyways?
Sprint customers should start seeing the change today, no action required.
[Via MocoNews]
I’m interested to know how why people might think altering content based on past usage could be a privacy violation. Surely websites do that now for customizing advertising, don’t they?
I’m all for protecting privacy but I (have to) accept Google tracking my every click using their search engine. Is there any difference?