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We'll Believe Android 5.0 Is Coming in Q2 When We See It
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-17
Sometimes you read reports and just shake your head. That was the case for this DigiTimes report that said Google is rushing Android 5.0, or "Jelly Bean," to market in the second quarter. The reason? "Adoption of Android 4.0 has fallen short of original expectations, and Microsoft
How Google Comes Out Cleaner Than Apple on Privacy
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-16
Path's privacy snafu of collecting address book data and storing it on remote servers without permission opened the floodgates of media hellhounds on that startup, along with Twitter, Foursquare, Yelp and others. This comes a week after Google spent a couple weeks being demonized for its planned
SoftLayer Launches New Worldwide Object Storage Service
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-02-15
Dallas-based SoftLayer came out with a heartfelt news announcement on Valentine's Day. The seven-year-old company, which started out as a Web hoster but now is into cloud
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Microsoft Mistakenly Claims Google Home Page Infected With Blackhole
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-15
Microsoft quickly updated its security tools after users reported seeing warnings that Google's home page was infected with the Blackhole exploit kit.
Microsoft's
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Google PageRank Used in Molecular Chemistry Research
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-15
Google is well known for its collegiate roots, hatched as it was by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University back in the late 1990s. So it's only fitting that PageRank, the defining algorithm that set Google apart from Overture, Yahoo, Microsoft and many others to
Google Voice Search vs. Siri in Battle for Speech-Driven Ads
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-14
Anyone who reads this blog knows I'm a pretty faithful follower of John Battelle's own Search Blog.
Battelle sparked an interesting conversation about the mobile ad
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Does Gmail's Perpetual Window Play Fast, Loose With Data?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-13
This fine piece in Wired about a "perpetual window into Gmail" caught my attention this weekend for two reasons.
First, I live in Gmail. It's my primary, personal email haven. Second, considering the data-sucking sounds Path made this month, the idea that Google has left open some potentially serious
Mozilla Closes Security Flaw in Firefox 10
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-12
Less than two weeks after releasing Firefox version 10, Mozilla has updated its popular Web browser to close a security flaw.
A critical security vulnerability has been fixed in Firefox
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Google Prepping Storage Drive, Home Entertainment System
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-10
Unlike my blogger peers, I'm not usually wont to skewer a so-called scoop. And I won't start doing so, but I will point out that two intriguing pieces in the The Wall Street Journal came off as old news, warmed over instead of hot stuff. First is this
Romney Most-Mentioned Politician in Spam Messages
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-09
Even spammers are following the United States presidential elections and have their favorites among the Republican candidates.
Bitdefender researchers analyzed 8 million pieces of
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HP Touch to Share NFC App Joins Google Wallet, Android Beam
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-09
Near field communications, also known as good-ole NFC, was one of a handful of rages in 2011.
You couldn't read a story about mobile payment systems without seeing NFC as one of the keywords, which is ironic because NFC-based mobile payment systems haven't exactly taken off. I'm looking at
Attackers Breached Foxconn, Dumped Data For Fun
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-08
A group of hackers appear to have breached and extracted information from Foxconn's network. Foxconn Electronics has not confirmed the breach.
Attackers breached Foxconn Electronics,
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Facebook Still Not Deleting Photos From CDN: Ars Technica
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-08
Almost three years after Facebook promised to look into why photos deleted by users were still accessible online, the photos are still available, reported Ars Technica.
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Google's Existential Threat Mirrors Microsoft's Tidal Wave Warning
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-08
John Battelle has been on a roll of late, opining on a number of Internet topics I hold near and dear, particularly the competitive dynamic of the Big 5 of the Internet.
Those would be Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook, and all of their walled gardens, another Battelle
Google Glasses Leverage Cloud for Augmented Reality
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-07
Could Google Glasses one day join Google Goggles in the pantheon of the company's popular products? Perhaps. But, please, enough p-words. 9to5 Google said Google is building
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