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Aditya Gupta, a researcher from the Vulnerability Lab released a demonstration video to prove that a remotely exploitable issue could allow a cybercriminal to post a message on Google+ on the victim’s behalf.
These types of clickjacking schemes are not uncommon and they’re mostly used in spam campaigns l... |
7 February 2012
06:28 GMT |
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Google Docs is expanding the use of its customizable paragraph styles and may even be rolling out the feature for all users. Some Docs users noticed that the paragraph styles in the documents editor were now customizable and they were also persistent between documents.
This has been a minor but annoying shortcoming ... |
7 February 2012
06:11 GMT |
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You may have noticed that Google is running a Charles Dickens-themed doodle globally. It is the famed author's 200th birthday and Google is celebrating by running a special doodle on its homepage.
The doodle is quite dense, as opposed to Google's usual style, and features many of Dickens' famous chara... |
7 February 2012
05:23 GMT |
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Google is always experimenting with new designs, new features and changes. It tests these changes with some users while it tweaks the design. Google is now experimenting with a new way of displaying related searches in Image Search. Now, a list of queries that may be related to your search is displayed above the reg... |
7 February 2012
04:54 GMT |
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Google's Summer of Code project has been highly successful, by any metric. Students have contributed to countless open source projects through it, gaining experience and a nice thing to put on their CV, while at the same time improving products used by millions of people.The eighth edition of the project has bee... |
6 February 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Google may be focusing on its big products, internally, but it's still got time for moonshot projects, even if they're not its own. Google has quietly launched Solve for X a new website centered around the similarly named project.The idea seems to be to create a conference or a think tank to tackle the worl... |
6 February 2012
14:31 GMT |
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The Super Bowl is over, it's time for the roundups. Google has taken a look at its searches over the weekend and has revealed some of the more interesting stats. Unsurprisingly, the attention was more on the stuff going on around the Super Bowl, than on the actual game. One interesting trend that Google noticed... |
6 February 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Google Earth is a great tool for exploring the Earth. It's even a great tool for discovering and exploring new archaeological sites. But it does have its limits and sometime, would-be explorers stumble upon things that look like Atlantis, but are really data artifacts created by Google's method of stitching... |
6 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Late last week Google provided a big list of updates, changes and new features in Search implemented in January. Among them is an interesting tweak to Instant Search, which has been around for more than a year now. The feature works by loading search results as soon as users start typing, to cut down on response tim... |
6 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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As the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Google and Apple for allegedly signing a “no poach” agreement, the latter has just lost a senior director to the former. Google will be assigning a top secret project to this person, according to VentureBeat.
Simon Prakash was most recently the senior di... |
6 February 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Google made a quite a lot of fuss about the new unified header that would adorn all Google properties. It's been moving towards this for several months now. Late last year, the black navigation bar, introduced along with the grand redesign of last summer, was removed, replaced by a header that integrated both th... |
6 February 2012
05:50 GMT |
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Four KDE contributors have managed to produce a handbook for new KDE developers, in just five days, with help from several organizations. A guide that would help new KDE contributors was needed, giving potential developers valuable insights of what such task would entail. Google was the one to propose to KDE develope... |
6 February 2012
02:07 GMT |
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Google has provided its now usual list of major search algorithm and feature updates for January. Several of the changes address spelling suggests and corrections, but there are also improvements to image search and so on.
One thing that Google is boasting about is fresher results. This is an update to the new fresh... |
4 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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After an unwanted delay, SPDY support is finally moving forward in Firefox. The latest Firefox 11 Beta includes support for the updated HTTP developed by Google and already supported by several sites, including most Google sites.SPDY, as the name suggests aims to improve the performance of websites by optimizing HTTP... |
4 February 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Google is celebrating the adoption of Unicode on the web and is also announcing that it's already switching to the very latest version available, Unicode 6.1 which was released on January 31st. "We’ve long used Unicode as the internal format for all the text Google searches and process: any other encoding... |
4 February 2012
09:51 GMT |
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After two years of waiting, Street View cars are once again allowed to roam the cities of the Czech Republic. Officials there had some reservations about the project, specifically, they believed the cameras were mounted too high and would peak into people's private gardens and inside houses.
Google has agreed t... |
4 February 2012
09:31 GMT |
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The CDMA flavor of Galaxy Nexus has some issues related to the manner in which telephony was implemented, and Google has made some changes to the support it offers to these devices.
Apparently, it all has to do with the implementation of core telephony functionality into .apk files in recent CDMA Android devices. ... |
4 February 2012
04:13 GMT |
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Google TV is hanging in there. Google is trying to make the most of it, the platform hasn't taken anything by storm, but the company has managed to convince some more manufacturers to build devices on it.
Existing owners will at least be happy that they've gotten a fairly major update, they are now running... |
3 February 2012
13:11 GMT |
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At least some government officials and agencies are giving Google credit where it's due, Google Chrome was highlighted as the browser of choice for a security conscious user.
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) put together a best practice guide for PCs running Microsoft Windows.
Among the... |
3 February 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Facebook is currently testing a new photo lightbox. Photos has been one of its most popular product to date so any change to it is carefully weighed. Those that have spotted the new photo viewer in the wild noticed something interesting, it is very similar to the one on Google+.
The layout is the same, comments on t... |
3 February 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Google is finding itself in need of defending once again. Its privacy policy changes have created a lot of stir and, much like competitors trying to latch onto the confusion for their own gain, politicians too feel they can score an easy point or two with their voters if they sound "worried" about Google's plann... |
3 February 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Microsoft and Google have recently started to hit one another over the latter’s privacy policies regarding some of its most popular services out there.
Microsoft claims that Google is not playing fair and that it is actually limiting users’ control over their personal data and also suggests that it is ... |
3 February 2012
07:16 GMT |
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Google is finally making it possible to set a default font, font size and other style option to be used with all documents. Currently, the document editor always defaults to Arial 11 since that's what Google Docs defines as "Normal Text."
You can change any of the style settings of course, font, color and so on... |
3 February 2012
05:00 GMT |
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It’s not only about the new privacy policy, Microsoft says. In fact, they continue, Google is not offering you too many choices to keep your stuff to yourself. Emails sent and received from Gmail are no longer personal, as they should be. The Redmond-based software giant claims that emails are no longer priva... |
3 February 2012
04:37 GMT |
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Today, Google announced the release of a new service for its Android Market. Dubbed Bounce, it has been designed to scan the Market for any applications that might pose threats to Android users.
The number of applications in the storefront has increased significantly in the past few years, the same as the amount o... |
3 February 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Google Chrome development team has picked up the pace, as they launch a new build for the Dev channel, two days after the previous one. The fresh release focuses on stability and bug fixes and it is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame).
Among the most notable entries in the ch... |
3 February 2012
03:39 GMT |
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Very recently, Google Earth received a major imagery update which dramatically improved the way land tiles were displayed. Countries and continents can now be seen as one continuous mass.
But Google isn't done yet, it's now addressing the other two thirds of the planet with a huge update to underwater terr... |
3 February 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Google+ finally has an official Google Chrome app. You'd think that a project so important to Google would have gotten one sooner, but it took the company several months to create one.Once you install the app, you'll see why it took Google so much time. Actually, no, you won't, it's just a link to... |
2 February 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Google's updated privacy policy is just the latest thing that has gone wrong for Google in the past month. The company is clearly not having a great start of the new year.
The problem with the privacy policy change is that it came at the worst possible time, when it was already being criticized for Search Plus ... |
2 February 2012
09:50 GMT |
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Along with its IPO filling, Facebook revealed some interesting numbers about it and not only financial stats. It provided a user growth chart going back a few years, revealing that it had 845 million monthly active users last December.
That's up from 800 million in September, the last official number. At the en... |
2 February 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Google has been found guilty of unfair competition in France and ordered to pay €500,000 or $660,000 in damages along with a €15,000, $19,675 fine. The court found that Google was abusing its dominating position in the market by giving away Google Maps for free.
Bottin Cartographes, a company that offers a... |
2 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Last week, Google announced plans to make a series of changes to its privacy policies regarding some of its most popular products, and concerns on the matter started to emerge soon afterwards.
Some suggested that Google might actually plan on increasing its control over user’s accounts, and that the new chan... |
2 February 2012
05:19 GMT |
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Google has been working on this for years now, but it has finally enabled the “Click-to-play” option for plugins by default in the very latest Chrome 18 releases. The feature allows users to block plugins, like Flash Player, from loading when a site requires them, until they explicitly allow it to b... |
1 February 2012
17:01 GMT |
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In order to improve security, Google has added a couple of new features to Safe Browsing in Google Chrome 17 which extend the use of the feature. Chrome 17 can detect malicious files that you may be trying to download and also warns about sites that may be dangerous.
Users had a lot of questions about the new featur... |
1 February 2012
14:21 GMT |
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January has proven an interesting month in the browser market. IE grew in the first month of 2012, while both Firefox and Chrome lost market share, Chrome for the first time in its history. Internet Explorer, all versions combined, ended the month with 52.96 percent market share, according to Net Applications data, ... |
1 February 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Google Chrome dev channel has been updated to a new build, available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame). It comes with an updated JavaScript engine (V8 - 3.8.9.0) and a new API for extensions, freshly moved from “experimental” status.
V8 engine has been improved through va... |
1 February 2012
07:33 GMT |
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Last week, Google announced a series of changes brought to their privacy policy, altering the way in which users can stay in control of their information.
Those changes affected some of the most popular products coming from Google, including Search, Gmail, Google Plus, and others, and concerns started to arise.
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1 February 2012
07:29 GMT |
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Google Chrome has introduced an updated Settings page. The new Options is only available in recent Chromium builds and in Google Chrome Canary Builds. It should debut in the dev channel along with the next update there. The new page is greatly simplified, the look is even more minimalistic. There are only two sectio... |
31 January 2012
11:21 GMT |
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A couple of Google engineers set about creating a JavaScript to Dart "dictionary." The idea is to enable JavaScript developers to see how code written in their preferred language would translate into Dart, what the differences and similarities are.
The app lists some of the common use cases and language constructs. ... |
31 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Google is cramming more and more functionality into Chrome. That's a good thing, but the added weight is beginning to be felt by users. Add to this instability issues and Chrome doesn't look like the nimble, rock stable browser it was when it launched in 2008. Google engineers have known about this for a w... |
31 January 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Mozilla is not the only one today to deliver a new build for their web browser. Google also incremented the version number for the beta channel, refreshing the build to 17.0.963.46. Although the release notes are more than sparing in details, mentioning only fixes for a bunch of stability and UI issues, the modifica... |
31 January 2012
05:07 GMT |
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In November last year, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung brought to the market the first smartphone in the world to run under Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, the Galaxy Nexus.
The handset was made available with a TI OMAP 4460 dual-core application processor inside, with each ... |
31 January 2012
02:10 GMT |
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Google has announced that it is open sourcing code and publishing data under a liberal license from its Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C) project. The project has been abandoned in Google's new quest for focus.One tool that has been open sourced is HOpS, heliostat optical simulation, which does exac... |
30 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Google has fired its Kenya lead over the entire business with Mocality. Google was found guilty of not only scrapping Mocality's online database of businesses looking for clients, but also of lying about a partnership with the Kenyan company.Google's Kenyan boss, Olga Arara-Kimani, has been let go in the pr... |
30 January 2012
15:30 GMT |
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Some of the major technology firms, including Google, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo, joined their forces in creating a powerful email standard that should protect inboxes from spam and phishing messages.
DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance, is actually a technical specification created ... |
30 January 2012
08:19 GMT |
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Google has finally commented on the Search Plus Your World debate. A couple of weeks ago, Google debuted a significantly changed version of its search engine which included Google+, meaning identity, content from users and their friends, brand pages and so on, into search.
Most people have been highly critical of th... |
30 January 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Google usually reserves its homepage doodles for famous scientists, artists, generally people that are well known or deserve to be. But Google isn't always uptight, it's got a lighter side as well.
Over the weekend, Google ran a very distinctive doodle, only in the US and the UK, celebrating 125 years sinc... |
30 January 2012
04:50 GMT |
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Galaxy Nexus, the first mobile phone in the world to run under Google’s new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform, is now one stop closer to making an official appearance on shelves at Sprint.
Google has just opened up registrations for Sprint’s Galaxy Nexus, and users interested in purchasing it can ... |
30 January 2012
01:37 GMT |
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The more adventurous Chromebook users will be glad to know that an update has been released to the dev channel, the first since Chrome 18 debuted. The latest release comes with several fixes and improvements, mostly affecting performance and stability. There are several security patches as well.Chrome OS 1625.0.0, wh... |
28 January 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Google has finally made it possible to get your music back from the black hole that used to be Google Music. Previously, any music you uploaded to the service was stuck there, there was no way of downloading any of it back.
The limitation was placed under pressure from music labels, under a misguided effort to curve... |
27 January 2012
11:51 GMT |
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