Reuters reports that Google is leaning on developers to use its payment processing service rather than rival offerings, though the company says that its policy has not changed. Google has been pressuring app developers to use Google Wallet as opposed to alternatives from other companies, according to a Reuters report. The news service reported today...Read More
<!– –>The Google tablet rumor will not die. Supposedly, ASUS is working with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) on a Nexus tablet, possibly branded Google Play. The 7-inch Android ICS slate will retail for just $199, we’re told. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers get ready for a fight with Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). Â By Richi Jennings: Your humble blogwatcher curated...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – If you’re amazed – and maybe even a little alarmed – about how much Google seems to know about you, brace yourself. Last week, Google started operating under a streamlined privacy policy that enables the Internet’s most powerful company to dig even deeper into the lives of its more than 1 billion...Read More
By Sam Grobart THE NEW YORK TIMES Updated: 2:24 a.m. Sunday, March 4, 2012 Published: 12:13 a.m. Sunday, March 4, 2012 E-mail Print Larger Type Small Type Starting last week, Google is using its often-criticized unified privacy policy. The company has been telling users of its services — search, YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Docs, among others — that information it collects about users...Read More
7:17 p.m. | Updated Adding context in fourth paragraph. It’s not just Apple. Photos are vulnerable on Android phones, too. As Bits reported this week, developers who make applications for Apple iOS devices have access to a person’s entire photo library as long as that person allows the app to use location data. It turns...Read More
(CNET) Do you know if Google is tracking your Web activity? If you have a Google account (for, say, Gmail) and have not specifically located and paused the Web History setting, then the search giant is keeping track of your searches and the sites you visited. This data has been separated from other Google products,...Read More
By EMILY GLAZER Google Inc. has dramatically expanded its presence in Manhattan in the past year, adding roughly 750 people to its outpost in 2011 in the most prominent example of a technology company shifting its focus toward New York. After acquiring four New York companies and going on a hiring spree for its media...Read More
Computerworld – BARCELONA — Google isn’t offering much information about the forthcoming Android 5.0, even though there are rumors saying that the new version of the operating system will be available on a smartphone by early summer. It’s more likely that it will be rolled out in the fall, based on comments made by Hiroshi...Read More
Google’s plan to share user data across its online services will have little effect on users of the company’s enterprise, government and education application suites, the company said. The rewrite of Google’s privacy policies, scheduled to roll out March 1, will not change Google Apps for business, government and education because those applications suites already...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Amid growing worry about sensitive consumer information being siphoned up by mobile apps, state Attorney General Kamala Harris on Wednesday announced a privacy deal with the six largest mobile Web providers that will change how millions of consumers download apps to their smartphones and tablets. Under the agreement, consumers should see prominent...Read More
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