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Submission + - Google charging OEMs licensing fees for Play Store (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google has begun charging OEMs for access to its proprietary Play Store applications for Android though the reported amount is as low as 75c per device. Between charging OEMs for Google Play apps, showing ads within these apps (Search, Maps and GMail) and profiling users with the data it collects this does show that Google is willing to leverage their stranglehold on the mobile market to control and monetize wherever it can. Add that these proprietary applications and the proprietary Google Play Services are the primary areas for Android innovation and development and you end up with an operating system that is less and less "free" in the freedom and cost senses of the word.

Comment XMPP (Score 1) 95

by Celexi (#42685527) Attached to: Privacy Advocates Demand Transparency From Skype
I quite like XMPP for this reason, its open ( or can be closed too ). And communicates with a major one ( Google Talk ) . I have managed to convince a few friends and family to use either pure XMPP or Google talk, i honestly don't have anyone i consider important or that i would have an important conversation with in either text or voice or video in Skype.
Security

Submission + - PayPal security holes expose customer card data, personal details (scmagazine.com.au)

Submitted by mask.of.sanity
mask.of.sanity writes: Dangerous website flaws have been discovered in PayPal that grant attackers access to customer credit card data, account balances and purchase histories.

The holes still exist. One was publicly disclosed after a failed effort in July to responsibly disclose them under PayPal's bug bounty program.

PayPal is working to close the holes.
Apple

Submission + - User Tracking Back on iOS6 (sophos.com)

Submitted by connor4312
connor4312 writes: Apple got caught with its hand in the cookie jar when privacy experts protested the use of a universal device identifier, or UDID, to track the online preferences of iPhone and iPad users. Enough is enough, right? Well, maybe not. It looks like device tracking is back with iOS 6, courtesy of a new tracking technology: IDFA, or identifier for advertisers.
Software

Submission + - Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal available today (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The six month cycle that Canonical adheres to for Ubuntu releases has come around again today. Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal Quetzal‘ has been released. There's a whole range of new features and updates, but here's the most important:

- WebApps — treats online services as if they are desktop apps (Gmail, Twitter, Facebook)
- Online Services — control logins to all your services from a single window and get them integrated into search results (e.g. GDocs for file searches)
- Dash Preview — right click any icon, get a detailed preview of what it is
- Linux kernel 3.5.4, GNOME 3.6, Nautilus 3.4, latest Unity
- No more Unity 2D, fallback is the Gallium llvmpipe software rasterizer
- Default apps (Firefox 16.01, Thunderbird 16.01, LibreOffice 3.6.2, Totem, Shotwell, Rythmbox)
- Full disc encryption available during install
- Single, 800MB distribution for all architectures

Download should appear today at some point.

Comment A violation of the Geneva convention and treaties. (Score 1) 1065

Regardless of the rape charges, This would be a big violation of international law regardless of what the national law might be. They can't just storm an embassy. They might close it, but as have been said they have to give enough time for staff to leave. Although he really should answer and defend himself. Storming an embassy is the last thing needed here, it would set an horrible precedent. I am sure Ecuador could perhaps work out someway to have him in equador after the interrogation if no charges pressed or having him there after sentence is carried.
Android

Submission + - Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany (bbc.com)

Submitted by Celexi
Celexi writes: In a surprising move, Motorola mobility which is to be taken over by Google, has won an injunction preventing the distribution of windows 7 and the xbox in Germany until Microsoft starts paying royalty fees for the patents Microsoft is said to be infringing( two patents needed used to display H.264). The ruling is suspended as of now because of an restraining order, the effect in the rest of the EU and US if the ban is enforced if the restraining order is lifted, is unclear.
Apple

Submission + - Apple blocks Dropbox-based apps (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by
Barence
Barence writes: "Apple is rejecting apps that use the new Dropbox SDK because they inadvertently allow users to buy extra online storage without Apple taking a cut.

Online storage service Dropbox is commonly used by iOS developers as a way of allowing users to share files created within their apps to other devices.

Dropbox's latest SDK has incurred the wrath of Apple, because users who don't have the Dropbox app installed on their iPhone/iPad are instead pushed to Dropbox's website via the Safari browser. Here, they can click a link to the desktop version of the service, which allows them to buy extra Dropbox storage without Apple taking its usual 30% cut.

"Apple should reject all web browser apps because they can take you to a page that lets you purchase stuff," writes one infuriated developer. "Go Apple! Crack down on all commerce!""

Comment Microsoft's online encryption has always been bad (Score 2) 453

by Celexi (#39800917) Attached to: Microsoft's Hotmail Challenge Backfires
Hotmail's default isn't SSL as far i know, and their chat service isn't ssl or encrypted or even able to run encrypted ( unlike google's chat/XMPP). So it isn't exactly safe, not long ago someone was trying an dictionary attack of some sort for days on my MSN messenger account as it prevented me from logging in due to "too many password attempts" . ( when i had not been the one doing those attempts.)

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