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Google search opens SCADA systems to doomsday scenarios
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Google, the service so great it became a verb, can now add security risk to its roster of unintended results. The search site played inadvertent host to remotely accessed Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems in a Black Hat conference demo led by FusionX's Tom Parker. The security company CTO walked attendees through the steps required to gain control of worldwide utility infrastructure -- power plants, for one -- but stopped short of actually engaging the vulnerable networks. Using a string of code, unique to a Programmable Logic Controller (the computers behind amusement park rides and assembly lines) Parker was able to pull up a water treatment facility's RTU pump, and ...
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Samsung demands 'optional' UI to get Android 3.2 on Tab 10.1
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Samsung as part of the kickoff of its TouchWiz rollout for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 revealed that the update wouldn't be optional in practice for real users. Although owners will have the option of declining the custom interface, they won't have the option of upgrading to Android 3.2, Ice Cream Sandwich, or any other patch. The move would leave everyone preferring the original, stock experience locked to 3.1 for the device's remaining lifetime.
TouchWiz had been promised for the tablet from March onwards, but Samsung only clarified that it wouldn't be preloaded relatively close to the launch.
The interface brings some potentially helpful additions, like a more advanced quick control panel, live p...
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Google+ has more than 25 million users hanging out
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The Google+ boom looks like it's continuing (for the time being at least) with ComScore putting the number of users for the new social network as more than 25 million - with 1 million UK users.
In fact, ComScore reported that this was the total back on 24 July with a growth rate of around 1 million a day, meaning that Google's new pet could well have smashed through the 30 million barrier by now, making it easily the fastest growing social network ever.
Facebook took over 3 years to hit the 25 million figure, as did Twitter. MySpace's growth was, surprisingly, faster at just over 2 years. However, Google+ still has a long way to go to match Twitter's 200 million and Facebook's 750 million us...
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Google's Chrome 13 brings 'Instant Pages' to the masses, saves precious seconds of your life
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Google just wouldn't be Google if it wasn't wringing out every last iota of performance from its products. The latest Chrome release is no different, ushering Instant Pages out of the dev channel and into the hands of the proletariat. The headline feature uses an algorithm to "guess" where you'll click next, pre-fetching and pre-rendering the result if it's confident enough. Mountain View says it's the only "high-profile" site to support the tech, but interested web masters can can partake of the instantaneous Google goodies by peeping the more coverage link below. Tweaks to the Omnibox -- which now returns URL and title history results based on partial queries -- and the addition of print p...
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Android conquers almost 50 percent of smartphone market
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A new study by researcher Canalys indicates that Google’s Android platform has reached nearly 50 percent of the global smartphone market.
Canalys’ Q2 2011 smartphone market estimates show that globally, the industry grew by 73 percent year-on-year with over 100 million devices shipped in Q2 2011. This seems to align with a study from IMS Research that claims smartphones will account for 28 percent of handsets sold this year.
Android ranked number one in 35 of the 56 countries that Canalys polled in the market estimate. Shipments of devices running Google’s operating system were up 379 percent from this time last year.
Apple’s iOS platform took the number two spot with a share of 19 percen...
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Google: Apple, Microsoft are trying to 'strangle' Android with patents instead of competing
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Apple and Microsoft are playing dirty, according to a new blog post by Google’s Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond. Instead of attempting to build innovative products and features, Drummond says Apple and Microsoft are content with filing repeated patent complaints in an attempt to impede Android’s rapid growth. Apple, Microsoft and others are carrying out “a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents,” Drummond wrote in his post. “They’re doing this by banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents (the “CPTN” group including Microsoft and Apple) and Nortel’s old patents (the ‘Rockstar’...
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Gingerbread update for the T-Mobile myTouch 4G & G2 is arriving starting on August 6th
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Once seen as the heavy handed power punch combo for Big Magenta, both the T-Mobile G2 and myTouch 4G are getting just a little bit of spark back into their lives thanks to their upcoming Android 2.3 Gingerbread updates.
For a while now, we’ve been hearing lots of information about it, but we’ve actually started to hear news about their roll out of late – albeit, some are still eagerly awaiting for its arrival. Well, for those who seemingly are unable to get the highly anticipated update to Gingerbread, customers can head into their local T-Mobile store starting on August 6th to get it. However, it’s worth noting that handset owners located in the midwest and west regions will need to wait un...
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Cellular South Gets Some Gingerbread Via the Samsung Admire
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Cellular South recently revealed information about a new Android handset from Samsung called the Admire. This monoblock device includes Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 3.5-inch touch display with 320 x 480 pixels, a 3.2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a 3.5mm headset jack. It also includes a microSD port for cards up to 32GB. Cellular South has yet to reveal pricing and availability for the Samsung Admire.
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Google+ app for Android updated with bug fixes, new functionality
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Google has updated its Google+ app for Android smartphones with some needed bug fixes and functionality improvements. Most notably, notifications are said to be more reliable, and you can now share posts with individual people rather than just groups.
In addition to the more reliable notifications, notifications for when people add you to a circle are now shown in bulk instead of individually. Clicking a "+mention" in a comment or post will now take you to that user's profile, and "+mentions" will now auto-complete with usernames from your Circles. The stream will no longer reset when the screen is rotated, and accuracy for the Nearby stream has been improved. You can now start a one-on-one ...
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PayPal announces winners of its third developer challenge
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PayPal announced winners of its third developer challenge, which if you recall was all about Android. According to the official line, judges had a “great time reviewing all of the submissions” and were pleased to see solutions that demonstrate how mobile payments will change the way we pay and get paid in the future. Without further ado, here are the winners:
1. Mopper (winner of $25K)
This little mobile app (and an accompanying service in the background) is made to reach customers through Print Commerce. Read something you like (an ad), scan a QR tag, and click pay with PayPal. It’s dead simple, yet it works.
2. PayPal for ThruTu Button (winner of $15K)
ThruTu allows users to share all kind...
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Google now facing nine antitrust complaints in EU
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Google is facing nine antitrust complaints in Europe, two sources who wish to remain unnamed told Reuters. The complaints began in February of last year and came from three companies. To date, the European Commission has only confirmed four cases against Google.
"The Commission has nine formal complaints now. The new complaints come from small companies," said one of the sources. Another source said three of the complaints came from national regulators, while two others were new ones.
The EU regulator officially opened the case against Google in November last year for allegedly demoting the web search results from three small companies because they were rivals. Microsoft also complained to t...
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Best Buy dishing out free Nexus S for one day only, ball and chain included
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Have you been looking to get your hands on a nice slice of Gingerbread without totally wrecking your wallet? If so... your time has come. Best Buy has announced that starting tonight (August 2nd) at 11 p.m. CST -- we'll assume they meant CDT, aka midnight Eastern -- it will begin offering the Google Nexus S for free (you read that right). Of course, you'll still have to chain yourself to a two-year agreement with AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile to cash in on this deal, but wait a day later and the price will certainly jump back up to a full Benjamin. So set your clock, and make sure you score one either in-store or online before 11:59 p.m. CST tomorrow. Check out the full details in the PR, just p...
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T-Mobile G2x Gingerbread update running through employee trials, "coming soon" just got closer
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You didn't think T-Mobile forgot all about you G2x users out there, did ya? The phone, foreordained to become the carrier's poster child, didn't have the best launch ever; when you release a device plagued with glitches and a nearly-immediate inventory shortage, you're not really starting off on the right foot. Don't let those "out of stock" signs fool you into thinking the mystical handset has been completely wiped from existence, however. It's still around -- in fact, the "Get More" network is hard at work to give more, prepping the phone's update to Gingerbread that'll likely include much-needed fixes. We reached out to a T-Mobile spokesperson, who briefed us on the progress of this elusi...
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Is the Amazon App Store bad for developers?
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Whenever I get a new Android device, I always throw on the Amazon App Store in order to get free, high-quality paid apps each day. While that’s great for consumers and has surely brought in a lot of traffic, is this approach good for app makers?
According to a blog post from the Shifty Jelly team, the Amazon App Store free app giveaway program is great for consumers and for Amazon but it can be kind of a raw deal for developers. The Shift Jelly team said that it was approached by Amazon to be the free paid app of the day but it wouldn’t receive any revenue for it. This isn’t the case of Amazon taking the financial hit, as the store is asking the developers to take the hit for good press and ...
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Android now on nearly half of all smartphones
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There are over 500,000 daily Android activations and we know this for a fact, but the platform has proliferated to now reach nearly half of all smartphones in the world, research gurus from Canalys stated in a report summarizing data for the second quarter of the year. To be perfectly correct, Android's exact market share stands at 48% as per the researchers, with Asia Pacific being the largest market out there.
Google's platform has taken the crown by shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010 and since then it's only increasing its presence. In the second quarter, Android phone shipments stood at 51.9 million units, skyrocketing 379% on the year. Samsung, HTC and LG were in the forefront o...
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