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Google to streamline privacy policies on March 1st: the backlash and response
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Google has announced that it'll be updating its privacy policy and terms of service across all of its products and services on March 1st. The company has launched a massive campaign to spread the word about the changes. Since the announcement, the company has faced scrutiny and criticism, including some questions from members of the US congress. You can find the whole story here as it continues to develop.
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Mint.com launches an app for Android tablets
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After the smartphone version, Mint.com is out with an Android tablet app, allowing its users to more easily manage their money and visualize their spending on interactive graphs. Available as a free download (though with a Mint.com account), the application is touted to deliver a “clear picture of their overall spending by category or by date.”
You’ll be able to use Mint.com for Android tablets to:
Organize all accounts – a single tap gives you a complete overview of your finances, helping you review account balances while automatically categorizing transactions.
Obtain financial insight – detailed graphs drill into spending by category or spending over time.
Stay on top of spending – person...
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ARM CEO thinks Windows is more "familiar" than Android
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As we learned yesterday from ARM's quarterly earnings call, the company is dominating the mobile space and has been seeing huge profits. What we didn't hear were some comments that ARM CEO Warren East made regarding consumer feelings towards Windows as compared to Android.
Apparently, the ARM CEO believes that consumers are more familiar with Microsoft and Windows than they are with Android, and it's hard to argue that point. East believes that this "awareness advantage" will help Microsoft as it pushes into the tablet market. That said, East doesn't think that we should count out Android tablets just yet, making a parallel to the slow burn of Android phones that has now ramped up into some...
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Google Blogger to begin automatically redirecting users to country-specific URLs
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Google is implementing a new system that automatically redirects users to country-specific URLs that match their IP address' location when they're trying to access a Google Blogger site. It's being rolled out slowly and Google says it will the company to "continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law," much like Twitter's new censoring tools. For example, this will allow the search giant to shut down a pro-Nazi blog at [example].blogspot.com.de for German users while letting those in countries that allow such content to continue viewing it at the [example].blogspot.com URL. Goog...
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CUPP Computing’s PunkThis board puts Android on any laptop
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Want to double, triple, even quadruple the battery life of your laptop? Want to swap out the stale Windows software with a more flexible operating system known as Android? That’s the promise of an impending product from niche tech company CUPP Computing. Called the PunkThis board, it is easily installed into any laptop and brings a fully functional Android interface to the machine.
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Google’s YouTube might be considering subscription service
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There is no shortage of ways for YouTube to monetize its site right now. It has sponsored videos, ad-supported content, and pay-per-click overlay ads. But that might not be enough, as the head of the viral video site has suggested there might be premium content on its way to YouTube, effectively ending the great legacy of 100% no-barrier, free-to-watch videos that made the site what it is today.
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Google Beefs Up U.K. Maps in Time for London Olympics
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Google said Monday that it has significantly improved its Maps capability for the United Kingdom, adding 170,000 train journeys and over 2,500 stations across Great Britain.
Maps also has signed a partnership with TheTrainline, so that users could actually book tickets for train journeys.
Google Maps was originally designed with streets and roads in mind, meaning that the infrastructure was already in place to calculate driving directions. But the United Kingdom is heavily dependent upon public transportation, with train journeys often far more direct than driving from city to city by car. To date, using Maps to calculate a route only took advantage of public transportation in Greater London...
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Google clarifies that its new privacy policy won't change users' privacy settings
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Despite Google's best efforts to introduce a simpler universal privacy policy across its numerous products, it seems that its customers aren't finding the new document entirely transparent, with some left confused and concerned by the changes being made. In a post on the Google Public Policy Blog, Google's director of Public Policy Pablo Chavez explains that although the privacy policy might be changing, users' privacy controls — and the permissions they give their content — will remain unchanged.
Chavez is quick to assuage a number of potential fears in the post. He assures users that their private information will remain private, that many tasks will still be available without a Google acc...
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Google responds to privacy concerns
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Google plans to make some changes to its privacy policies and there have been some freak outs about it because … well, it’s Google. This cause some panicked headlines about “no opting out” and U.S. senators inquiring about it and Google has officially responded to try and clear up any confusion about its changes.
Basically, Google is consolidating multiple privacy policies surrounding its different projects into one in order to make it easier for users to understand and in order for Google to better deliver services to its users across different services. In the letter below, Google explains why it’s doing what it’s doing and how this will benefit users and make the privacy policy easier to ...
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Google's New Data Center Is an Abandoned Paper Mill in Finland
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I don't know what it is about new data centers, but they all seem to resemble the evil lairs of Bond-movie villains. Google's latest, based in a disused paper mill in Finland, is no exception.
Joining the ranks of the Norwegian fjord-cooled data center in a cave and Facebook's $700 million Arctic server farm, Google's new corporate data center is based Hamina, Finland.
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Google fired cheeky recruiter who peeved Steve Jobs with poach attempt
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Big companies in Silicon Valley have allegedly put in place an agreement that they would not poach each other’s workers. Back in 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs shot an e-mail off to Eric Schmidt of Google asking why one of Google’s recruiters was actively going after an Apple engineer. The e-mail came to light recently after a 2010 Justice Department probe looking into Google, Apple, Adobe Systems, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar over allegations that the companies have each agreed to refrain from poaching to others employees.
Investigation came after a lawsuit by was filed by five software engineers to accuse these companies working together to conspire to keep employee salaries low by negating compet...
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UK search certification scheme mooted
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A new voluntary scheme is being proposed in the UK which would punish copyright infringing sites and boost links to websites that have licenses to sell music, film and TV content.
According to the Register, the site certification scheme is being put forward by the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI), the Motion Pictures Association (MPA), the Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT), The Premier League and the Publishers Association.
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Koush shows off touch-enabled ClockworkMod Recovery
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We've been wondering when this would come to pass, because we've been getting pretty tired of navigating recovery menus with the volume buttons and power button on an Android device. CyanogenMod developer extraordinaire, Koush, is showing off the next version of the ClockworkMod Recovery and it looks pretty cool.
For the first time, it looks like we're going to get a fully touch-enabled ClockworkMod Recovery. So far, it's a pretty early build, although tapping and swiping through menus is working. Koush is promising to update the UI of the Recovery before it is released into the wild. Right now, it looks much like the ClockworkMod Recovery that we all know, but the menu items have been spac...
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Android Developers ready to hangout on Google+
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The mobile ninjas over at Android Developers have announced a new medium for advice, collaboration and training: Google+. The collective will use the social networking site to help developers "meet, share, and connect with the people behind the Android developer experience." Programming tips, SDK announcements and training offerings are all on the menu, and the group is promising to hold weekly "broadcast office hours" for live Q&A using the Hangouts feature built-in to Google+. Hit the source link to invite the coding co-op into your virtual circle of choice.
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Google: we are being upfront about privacy
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Google has hit back at those who think it is turning its back on its 'don't be evil' mantra by explaining that its recent privacy changes are all about making things simple and more transparent.
Google's recent changes are big news for everyone who uses myriad Google products, as it has unified its rules and regulations so if you sign into one Google property, information about you from other Google services may be used by Google to push out relevant ads and the like to you.
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