Posted by devil | Sunday, March 2, 2014 |
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Nokia X, the recently announced series of smartphones that run a heavily modified version of Android, has been hacked to run the Google Play Store and key Google services.
While Nokia has replaced key
APIs and services, including
Google's Maps and applications marketplace, with its own apps and
Microsoft's services, an
XDA developers forum member has posted a way to root the Nokia X so that it could run the Google launcher, Play Store and other Google apps, including Gmail and Maps.
One of the reasons why the apps work is that Nokia has apparently left the application framework untouched in order to allow apps from third-party app stores work on the phone.
Posted by devil | Friday, January 24, 2014 |
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Google Inc is investigating an outage on Friday night that took down Gmail for about 18 minutes, the internet email service used by hundreds of millions of people across the globe.
The trouble started at 12.30am
IST on Saturday.
Gmail service appeared to resume for some users shortly after the outage occurred.
It was unclear what triggered the outage, which affected users in at least
India, Britain and the
United States.
Yahoo Inc, which runs a rival internet service, posted a screenshot of the Gmail error page on
Twitter.
Posted by devil | Wednesday, December 25, 2013 |
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Google's Santa Tracker is now live allowing users to track the location of Santa as he delivers presents across the various destinations of the world.
The Santa Tracker page set-up by Google lets users travel through Santa's village and play animated games and videos, following the course of the legend as he travels through the world.
From watching the village choir perform, running a sledge race, to seeing Santa sky dive to your chosen destination via the Command Center, the Santa Tracker offers fun activities to last the complete holiday season. Users can learn about Christmas traditions in different parts of the world and see the real time Santa's Dashboard which allows users to track Santa's previous and next location, the departure time, the number of presents delivered, and the distance travelled along with a status message.
Posted by devil | Monday, November 18, 2013 |
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Google boss Eric Schmidt said on Monday that the tech giant had developed new technology that makes it harder to find child sexual abuse images on the web.
Writing in British newspaper the Daily Mail, Google's executive chairman said more than 100,000 searches would no longer feature such material in their results.
The restrictions will initially apply to English-speaking countries but will be expanded to the rest of the world and 158 other languages within six months.
Posted by devil | Wednesday, November 6, 2013 |
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The recent NSA leaks based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden, an ex-contractor for the American spy agency, have angered Google engineers. The leaks show that NSA and GCHQ, which is the British spy agency, tapped into the cables that linked Google and Yahoo data centres outside the US and scooped up data flowing through them.
Hearn and Brandon Downey, who are engineers at Google, have written on their Google+ page that tactics used by NSA and GCHQ make them very angry. "F*ck these guys," wrote Downey, who is a network security engineer. Hearn, who works on user account security, added Wednesday, "I now join (Downey) in issuing a giant F*ck You to the (NSA and GCHQ) people."
Both engineers made it clear that this was their personal opinion and not those of their employer.
When the news reports based on the first NSA leaks appeared, hinting that Google was providing data to American spies, Google CEO Larry Page wrote a blog post titled, "What the ...?"
Earlier Washington Post, which first reported about NSA and GCHQ tapping internal server links used by Google and Yahoo, revealed that when it showed Google a drawing that NSA workers had made to explain how they were tapping into data centres, the engineers had "exploded in profanity".
