Monday, October 22, 2012
Sloppy SSL implementation begets Android app vulnerabilitiesDan Goodin at Ars Technica explains how researchers found that 8% of apps in a 13,500-app sample were susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. Hopefully developers will revisit their SSL implementations or, better yet, Google will update …Friday, October 19, 2012
Brazilian newspapers leave Google News en masseCarlos Fernando Lindenberg Neto, president of Brazil’s National Association of Newspapers, on his association’s withdraw from Google News: Google News’ presence in the Brazilian market is small. We believe (the loss of traffic) is an acceptable price …Thursday, October 18, 2012
New $249 Samsung ChromebookThis is certainly interesting. And at half the price of an entry-level Microsoft Surface, it even comes with a keyboard!Friday, October 12, 2012
Microsoft To Make Same Privacy Change Google Was Attacked For; No One Seems To CareThis is a good piece by Danny Sullivan of Marketing Land about the lack of coverage Microsoft’s privacy policy consolidation got this week compared to what Google got on a similar move earlier this year. Mr. …Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Google Now Lets You Download All Your YouTube Videos In One ArchiveWhether you like them or not, Google still leads the way on data portability.Saturday, September 15, 2012
Mat Honan, writing at Wired’s Gadget Lab blog: It is an amazing triumph of technology that gets better and better, year after year, and yet somehow is every bit as exciting as a 25 mph drive through a sensible neighborhood at a reasonable time of day. I am still waiting for Verizon to push Jelly …Thursday, September 13, 2012
Hamish McKenzie, writing at PandoDaily : With two product launches in a row that show Apple is merely keeping pace with innovation rather than leading it, the world’s most valuable company will start to seem mortal. I disagree. For the record, I’m usually on board with Mr. McKenzie’s analyses, and …Saturday, July 28, 2012
Updated 12:00 p.m: Kara Swisher reached out to me on Twitter after I published this post (her tweets and my replies here, here, here, here, and here). She said she only made minor edits to things like commas and contractions, and that she thought people would assume that she didn’t rewrite the …Monday, May 14, 2012
I originally posted this to The Verge's Web & Social forum. Read the original forum post here. Google recently announced that, over the next several weeks, they’re rolling out the ability to livestream and record Hangouts to everyone. Shameless copy/paste of features: Broadcast publicly. By …Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Google storage plans have changed, but you can stay on your current plan as long as you: Keep your account active Keep payment information in Google Wallet accurate and up-to-date Don’t cancel or upgrade your current plan via support.google.com This is good news. I can keep paying $5 per year …