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The FTC announced today that ICON will pay $3 million to settle charges that it violated a 1997 consent order by advertising that use of the Pro-Form ab Glider for just three minutes a day would result in significant weight loss. (Shockingly those claims aren’t true.)
According to the FTC’s latest complaint [PDF] against the company, since at least August 2010 and through June 2013, ICON ran several advertisements making weight-loss claims for the ab Glider.
Ads included video infomercials on television, on ICON’s website and on social media networks. The ads often featured television personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck and several consumer endorsers claiming that using the ab Glider for only three minutes a day would lead to lost pounds, inches and clothing sizes.
(Sounds a bit like the Ab Circle Pro, right? You remember, the device we told you about a few months ago that supposedly magically makes your head – er, waist – smaller?)
The FTC found that none of the consumers featured in the advertisements actually shed their pounds by just three minutes of work on the glider. Instead, the FTC revealed the consumers had subscribed to a controlled diet, used the device for more than 3 minutes a day and performed additional exercises to lose weight.
Because ICON could not substantiate the advertised resulted were solely from using the glider for three minutes each day, the FTC charged it with violating a 1997 order against the company.
That order, stemming from the company’s deceptive marketing of the Pro-Form Cross Walk Treadmill, required ICON to support weight loss claims with competent and reliable scientific evidence.
And without further ado, here is an example of a Pro-Form ab Glider infomercial:
The bad news is that, according to Home Depot, between April and September of this year, thieves stole info on approximately 56 million accounts.
The not-disastrous news is that this number is much smaller than had been predicted, given the volume of customers who shopped at Home Depot during that 5-month period. The Target breach in 2013 only lasted for a few weeks, but resulted in the theft of information of more than 100 million customers.
Home Depot’s statement doesn’t offer an explanation for why the number of compromised accounts is so much smaller than originally predicted, but journalist Brian Krebs, who broke the story on the attack, reports today that it looks like the breach may have been confined to self-service checkout terminals at around 1,700 U.S. stores.
While self-checkout lines have their fans, many Home Depot customers still prefer to go through the traditional checkout line when paying. If Krebs’ reporting is accurate, that means that only a fraction of shoppers were made vulnerable during the breach.
And, as someone who had to have his card replaced when it was used to try to buy sketchy diet supplements from a Korean website, I will admit to having shopped at Home Depot only days earlier and to having used the self-checkout line.
While there have been reports that the malware used in this attack was the same or similar to that used in the Target theft, Home Depot claims this was “unique, custom-built malware” made to evade detection.
“The malware had not been seen previously in other attacks, according to Home Depot’s security partners,” reads a statement from the company, which says it took affected payment terminals out of service after being made aware of the breach in early September.
Other not-horrendous news: Home Depot restated its previous claim that it doesn’t look like PIN information was stolen for debit card users.
“We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and anxiety this has caused, and want to reassure them that they will not be liable for fraudulent charges,” said Frank Blake, chairman and CEO. “From the time this investigation began, our guiding principle has been to put our customers first, and we will continue to do so.”
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iPad users may not notice that the bluetooth has been turned back on after updating to iOS 8.
That’s right: Bluetooth. While some people choose to always have their bluetooth on because their devices are always connected to some sort of peripheral like a headset or keyboard, most people only use it sparingly, if at all.
Which is why it baffles us that every iOS update now automatically turns a device’s bluetooth back on when completed. It doesn’t really benefit your device in any way, though a Forbes.com piece from earlier this year theorized that it may be to bolster the efficiency of location marketing service iBeacon.
Regardless of why Apple chooses to turn on your Bluetooth, remember to turn it back off when you’re done updating your device (unless you want it on, of course). This is especially true of iPad users, who are more likely to set their tablets to update and then let it do its thing until the device is needed again. As you can see from the above image, iPad users may also not notice the tiny, thin bluetooth icon against a busy background.
In terms of other ways to maximize your device’s battery using iOS 8, Mashable has this helpful post, walking you through the new app-specific battery usage tools (that are similar to what some Android users have been messing around with for years).
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