Posts

German prosecutors have launched a criminal investigating over whether Google wear data protection regulations when it collected fragments of Wi - Fi data while shooting imagery for its function app . The probe , conducted by the Hamburg Prosecutor ’s Office , follows Google ’s admission that it mistakenly take in the substance of communications from non - password protected Wi - Fi internet using its Street View vehicles , which photograph street for the Google Maps service ....

I got an advance looking at Google ’s in style delicacy for Android phone , Android 2.2(more deliciously know as Froyo ) , on the Nexus One . denote on Wednesday atGoogle I / Oin San Francisco , the update will initially be uncommitted to Motorola Droid and Nexus One possessor in June . Android users will definitely be felicitous with this update , which delivers faster performance , tethering / mobile hotspot and , of course of instruction , Flash support ....

Geez , it must be pile - on Apple daylight . Both Sony and Google have taken shots at Cupertino , but at least Apple managed to get away a brainsick lawsuit and can rest assured in the knowledge that the iPad business is booming . Here are the remainders for May 20 , 2010 . Malus pumila trade more iPads than Macs(All Things D ) RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky say Apple is selling 200,000 iPads a calendar week , which is even outpacing Mac sale ....

Apple may be enjoy strong initial sales agreement for the iPad — the caller did sell 1 million unit in the 28 days after it launched the equipment , after all . But one study suggests that Apple could be reaping another benefit from the iPad ’s early popularity in the shape of increased grocery store share for the Mac OS . Chitika , a lookup - base online advertising electronic connection , monitors the traffic coming into its connection from different operating system ....

Sales of Android - based smartphones may have pass those of Apple ’s iPhone in North America , but globally the iPhone is still onward of Android by more than 3 million units , according to market research caller Gartner . In the smartphone OS war , Android and Apple were the winners in the first after part of 2010 , consort to Gartner . It was Apple ’s strongest poop yet , as sales to terminal - substance abuser increased by 112....

What a difference a month makes . In April , I reviewed the new 13 - in MacBook Pro models , terminate the review with this : And the new models make a broad opening between the 13 - in MacBook Pros and the similar - sized , $ 999 MacBook . Starting at $ 200 more than the MacBook , you get a faster processor , an aluminium enclosure , a FireWire port ( of the 800 variety ) , twice the standard RAM , Nvidia GeForce 320 M graphics , a built - in SD card proofreader , a backlit keyboard , a longer - hold out battery , and a trackpad that support inertial scrolling ....

Your iPad decisions do n’t stop once you ’ve make up on either the3 G iPador the Wi - Fi - only modeling . There ’s also the not - insignificant query of what apps deserve a place on your brand new mobile twist . App developer have n’t made that the decision easy for you . The routine of alternative in the App Store continues to go up upward , with developers now producing apps optimized to take vantage of the iPad ’s feature ....

Points of view Overall , the beta edition clearly signify a major shift in pattern : instead of an port based on Apple ’s Mail customer for Mac OS X we get one that ’s styled after the iPhone and iPad Mail apps . For example , the new card - bar push button , which were previously little capsules that suggest the background client , now use the same simple image as the iPad version of Mail ....

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Mac OS X ’s Apple menu provide useful hierarchal lists of recently used applications , documents , and servers ( the issue of each influence by your configurations in the Appearance pane of System Preferences ) . Similarly , the File menu of many programme includes an Open Recent submenu , letting you quickly open documents you of late used in the program . But in my experience , the distinctive Mac drug user does n’t take advantage of these features — most likely because these menus are tucked away , effectively out of mint ....

Hewlett - Packard has already say it will use Palm ’s webOS in smartphones and ticket estimator , but on Tuesday it reveal it has another category of products in mind : printing machine . HP is buying Palm because it want the ship’s company ’s operating arrangement to apply in connection - connect printer , Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd said during HP ’s quarterly earnings call . The printers let people publish maps , dramaturgy tickets and other depicted object straight from the Internet , without needing to start a personal computer ....

We ’ve enshroud hundred of inexpensive Mac programs over in the Mac Gems department , but two that stay on to give reader interest , despite long ago being discontinued — or so we thought — are Proteron ’s MaxMenus and LiteSwitch X. I ’ve been a big fan of LiteSwitch ’s much - improved — though subtly so — Command+Tab program program switcher , and when I advance to Snow Leopard , I was mighty relieved to find that the most - recent update to LiteSwitch X , from mid-2006 , still worked ....

With thepending closureof Google ’s Nexus One online storage , a smartphone revolution is in shred . Google still has a killer product in Android , but the Nexus One ’s online - only business model , meant to interrupt the way phones are typically sell , is a failure . Google need the Nexus One in more retail stores around the world , which means it ’ll have to make nice with wireless carriers ....

BTis planning to launch a competition to Apple ’s iPad that will be used in the place , rather than on the go . According toThe Guardian , BT unveiled a epitome of the mini PC to City analysts this hebdomad . The telecoms giant hopes the as - yet - unknown gadget will boost home plate owners to coldcock their even landline telephone in favor of these touchscreen versions that also offer access to the web ....