Android users can relax again, in the knowledge that the Android OS is just as safe today as ever; despite yesterday’s incorrect reports of a malicious app that was on millions of Android users devices!
Yesterday, the blogosphere was full of stories about an Android wallpaper app, which was reportedly collecting sensitive user data and sending it off to a server in China. LookOut (the firm who reported this supposed security problem) has since issued a statement saying that in fact, the app was NOT showing any malicious behaviour…
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After 5 long years, the official Google blog has announced that Google Apps is finally out of beta. Google claims that the reason for removing the beta tag, is that businesses have been nervous about installing and relying on beta software.
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bing.com has hit the headlines here in the UK, 2 days before its official launch. It seems that users are able to view pornographic videos, without leaving bing.com. By simply hovering the mouse pointer over the video stills. Read on…
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Hey Google, you better watch out because Microsoft is about to launch another search engine, this time called bing.com. According to the promo video (there’s a link to it in the article) it looks interesting – Read on…
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If you are a Gmail or Google News user, you might have noticed that the service was either down, or extremely ‘sluggish’ earlier. Apparently, this problem was caused by what Google Spokesperson Urs Hoelzle referred to as a “traffic jam.”
Google’s downtime raises a question
Of course, with so many people now relying on providers, like Google, for ‘cloud computing’ services – The question is; “Is cloud computing reliable enough yet?” Read on…..
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Remember how Google came form nowhere to pretty-much own online search and Internet advertising? Well, it seems Twitter is planning a similar move; according to comments made this week by Twitter’s own Santosh Jayaram (a Google Search Quality Manager until recently.)
Here’s why this may not be good news for Twitter users…..
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Today, the 4 founders of the Pirate Bay torrent search site were given jail sentences and massive multi-million dollar fines. Are Google next? No – And here’s why…
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I read a post this morning from SEO blogger Gregor Spowart, which I want to share with you. In his post, he asks if The Guardian’s website is ‘keyword stuffing.’
When you see the URL they are using for one of their news items, you might find yourself asking the same question…
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Much like an older brother beating up their younger brother, Google has just given a PageRank penalty to Google Japan!
This bizarre state of affairs came about after it was revealed that Google Japan was paying bloggers via CyberBuzz, to write about a new feature on the Google Japan ...
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There's a lot of talk today, about Twitter being a potential 'Google Search Killer.' The theory is that by asking your Twitter followers the kind of things you might search for on Google, you are likely to get more reliable answers. After all, you either know these people or ...
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