Google Circumvents Safari Privacy Settings To Track iPhone Users

Google has increasingly been under due to privacy issues. The search engine has pepped up it’s efforts to try and track the browsing habits as well as other information of the users. The recent privacy changes in Google’s account has been bitterly criticized. As if that wasn’t enough, it has now been revealed that Google has been tracking the browsing of Safari users by circumventing the privacy settings of Safari. This is another unethical practice by Google.

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Google Has Officially Become The Biggest Public DNS Provider

When Google first launched its Public DNS all they way in 2009 it was meant to be an experiment. But since then things have evolved fast for the search giant. Now it has been released to the public the information that the DSN serves up to 70 billion requests transforming it into the largest in the whole wide world.

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The European Commission Gives Green Light To Google-Motorola Deal

Things have been moving faster in Europe. Google has been waiting for the US approval for its Motorola acquisition by the Department of Justice, but while it has been benched, the European Union gave the company the go ahead. “We have approved the acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google because, upon careful examination, this transaction does not itself raise competition issues,” EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia commented on the decision.

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Google Says It Will Surprise Us With Announcements About Google TV

Google has been dabbling with the development of consumer products and devices for some time. In some cases, the devices did become a success and yet in other, they were a total failure. Now Google seems to be betting heavily on yet another consumer product, Google TV. According to Google, it has some ‘big announcements’ regarding Google TV. We have been hearing about Google TV for some time. It may be that now Google may finally reveal the magic it promises to deliver through Google TV.

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Apple is Now Bigger Than Microsoft And Google Combined

It’s official. Apple has tons and tons of money. This is no news, but last week, the company surprised everyone as it made front cover news yet again. As reported by Hayley Tsukayama of the Washington Post, Apple had a great week at the market – the stock market. Apparently the company now has a market cap value of $461 billion. Remarkably this means that Apple is now worth more than Google and Microsoft put together.

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Google Temporarily Disables Prepaid Cards To Fix Google Wallet Vulnerabilities

Following the discovery of two major security loopholes that worried the Android community, Google decided to disable the access to provisioning prepaid cards to Google Wallet until the issue is fixed.Despite Google’s intense communication about the multiple levels of protection that Google Wallet delivers, Android Central explained that the newly discovered security flaw could reset Google Wallet PIN and grant unwelcomed access prepaid cards.

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[Funny Video] Gmail Reading Your Email – Microsoft Spanks Google in Recent Ads

Google reads inside your email in Gmail. Its because of keyword targeting for the advertisement they put in your free email. This sounds scary. Now Microsoft took that advantage, to pan Google for “reading” email. Microsoft made an advertisement to show this in very funny way. No hard feelings about anybody, just check the funny ads.

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Security Flaws Found In Google Wallet On Android Phones

Google Wallet, a service introduced by Google to make the transactions of a user absolutely paper-free, was introduced back in 2011. However, some carriers initially blocked it due to security concerns, only to eventually unblock it reluctantly. And although now Google Wallet is available on a number of Android devices, a number of security flaws have been uncovered in Google Wallet. The latest flaw reveals that if someone has access to your phone, that person can reset your Google Wallet and have the PIN number sent to them. This will immediately compromise the security of the service.

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