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Submission + - Google's 2nd Android Developer Contest kicksoff 1

Submitted by coffeeisclassy
coffeeisclassy writes: Google's second Android Developer Contest (ADC2) has started, despite some confusion around how to submit applications. The prizes are different from the first ADC, with each category having prizes of 100k, 50k, and 25k and an overall best of 150k,50k and 25k, meaning the best Android application from ADC2 is eligible for ~250k. The rules seem to allow any application never published before August 1st to compete and is open through the end of August (so break out your keyboards!). The top prizes are certainly less than that of first ADC, but with the prizes broken down by category Google may be hoping to inspire some love for less popular categories. While some other developers are waiting to find out to submit, one developer has moved ahead and released one of there entires Pigs Can Fly Site Monitor (also on Google Market for those with Androids). So if you've been waiting for an excuse to start a new side-project, here you have it :)
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HP the Victim of Enterprising Greenpeace Stunt 36

Posted by samzenpus from the set-phasers-to-ineffective dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Employees at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto received a shock this morning as they checked their voicemail and found that each and every one of them had received a message from Captain James T. Kirk, AKA William 'The Shat' Shatner, upbraiding the company for abandoning their plans to remove toxins from its hardware. The organization behind this stunt was Greenpeace, who, to underline their point, scaled the building and painted 'Hazardous Products' on the roof with toxin-free paint."
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Submission + - AT&T blocks 4chan 1

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holdenkarau
holdenkarau writes: "Several news sources (mashable,the inquistr,etc.) are reporting that AT&T is blocking img.4chan.org in the southern united states. That server is used for the imfamous /b/ board (the home of anonymous). TechCrunch calls the decission to block 4chan "stupid" noting that they may have "opened perhaps the most vindictive, messy can of worms." The inquisitr suggests that "The global internet censorship debate landed in the home of the free". moot (the runner of 4chan) asks users to call AT&T while some others suggest more drastic action (like cutting AT&T fiber)."
Privacy

Submission + - Your browser history is showing

Submitted by tiffanydanica
tiffanydanica writes: For a lot of us our browser history is something we consider private, or at least not something we want to expose to every website we visit.Web2.0collage is showing just how easy it is (with code!)for sites to determine what sites you visit. When you visit the site it sniffs your browser history, and creates a collage of the (safe for work) sites that you visit. It is an interesting application of potentially scary technology (imagine a job application site using this to screen candidates). You can jump right into having your history sniffed if you so desire. While the collages are cool on their own merit, they also serve as an illustration of the privacy implications of browser history sniffing.

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