Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

7/07/2011

The hacker’s war with the hackers

The cyber attack war has got at its new chapter, of hacker’s attack. The A-Team, a group of electronic intruders made public the names, email addresses, phone numbers and personal details like the girlfriends’ names and family of their main hacking competitors from Lulz Security, the group responsible for some very important intrusions like the CIA, IMF, Google or Sony ones.

7/02/2011

Review: Google+ a clean, intuitive mobile experience so far

Amy Gahran says the Google+ user interface is less
potentially misleading than Facebook's.
Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age.

(CNN) -- Google on Tuesday unveiled its attempt to rival Facebook, a social-networking product called Google+.

I received an invitation from a friend and have been putting this nascent service through its paces --                                                                               especially on my Android phone.

Here's my experience so far:
(Do you want a Google+ invitation? Sorry, you may have to wait.)

Google faces 'wire tapping' case over Street View

Google's Street View cars took snaps and scooped up data from wi-fi networks
Google could be sued for scooping up data from open wi-fi networks after a US court ruling.


A judge in San Francisco decided that the company's actions may have violated federal laws on wire tapping.
Google had tried to have the class action lawsuit thrown out, claiming that anyone could have intercepted the wireless signals.

Google Enters the Ring for Social Smackdown, Round 2

Last year, Google took a swipe at the social networking scene by launching Buzz, which was quickly burned to a crisp by critics who blasted its apparently lax privacy protections. Now the search engine leader has returned with Google+, its latest attempt to break into the social scene. Challenging a rival the size of Facebook will be difficult, but Google's size and existing infrastructure may prove useful.




Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) took a second stab at social networking Tuesday with the launch of Google+, a program designed to interactively connect users and challenge worldwide social networking king Facebook.
The search engine giant failed with its first attempt at an online social network, last year's Google Buzz, which encountered difficulties in