THE majority of Britons are concerned about their online privacy and back an investigation into internet giant Google’s data policies, campaigners will say today.
A survey by privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch found that 68 per cent of respondents are concerned about online privacy with nearly a quarter “very concerned”.
A total of 22 vulnerabilities, two of which only affect Mac or Linux versions, have been fixed by Google with the release of Chrome 25.
The high-severity security holes include a memory corruption with web audio note identified by Atte Kettunen of OUSPG, a use-after-free in database handling discovered by Chamal de Silva, and a bad memory access with excessive SVG parameters found by Renata Hodovan.
This is amazing. Not only has Google just opened up the pre-order program for Google Glass to 'creative individuals', it has also unveiled what the user interface looks like and how it works. It's... Nothing short of amazing. I'm throwing money, credit cards, my car keys, my house keys, my Surface RT, my cats, everything at my screen. I want this so bad.
After desktops and phones, Ubuntu is now bringing its Linux distribution to tablets. Coming Thursday, preview images for Google's Nexus tablets will be released, so we can all get a good long look at what Canonical is cooking up. They've published a YouTube video which details all that Ubuntu has to offer for tablets, and to be honest, it's looking quite good.
The BYOD phenomenon is old news, with support from most companies. For IT organizations, that means ensuring proper security and management over the mobile devices employees are likely to use. In the last year, Apple's iPhone and iPad have become the new corporate standards due to high user satisfaction and superior security capabilities.
General Electric pretty much does everything, from making water heaters to designing nuclear reactors (very big water heaters) and the electric grids that snake out from them. And while you want GE giving your pressurized water reactor its annual tune-up, when it comes to digital maps – as Apple found out the hard way – it’s Google you want on the job.
Although Twitter is looking for an engineer to implement two-factor authentication for its users, it still won't prevent a repeat of the recent attack that saw 250,000 users exposed, according to OneID founder Steve Kirsch.
Nexus 4 users are finally beginning to receive their Android 4.2.2 update, about 48 hours after it was first spotted on Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10 devices. Users of LG and Google's latest Nexus handset may find themselves losing a desirable feature, though—AnandTech reports that an update to the phone's baseband software included in Android 4.2.2 appears to completely disable its partial, unofficial LTE support.
Dan Nolan, an Australian software developer, has claimed that Google Play sends those who sell apps in the online bazaar personal details of app buyers.
Nolan rose to notoriety late in 2012 by launching "The Paul Keating Insult Generator". Keating was Prime Minister of Australia between 1991 and 1996 and had a famously acid tongue. Keating described one political opponent as an "intellectual rust bucket" and laughed off criticism from another as "like being flogged with a warm lettuce."
The new Google Chromebook Pixel has been spotted in a newly leaked video. The newest offering from Google is expected to feature a 2560×1700 resolution display with multitouch. As the name suggests the notebook will also feature Google’s Chrome OS.
Google has given the device the clever tagline: “Designed by Google. Down to the last pixel.”
