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Mobile Apps Could Be Exposing Your Personal Data
Lookout, a mobile security company, embarked on an absolutely massive study that examined the code of some 300,000 Android and iPhone apps. Dubbed the App Genome Project, it looked at a large cross-section of mobile apps and found that an unsettling ... Read more →
Jeremy Wood's GPS Art Map: the Cartography of Experience
22 days ago on SwitchedHave you all been watching 'Work of Art,' Bravo's latest horrible venture into competitive reality programming? The show -- which pits artists of varying skill, experience and taste against one another for a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum -- asked ...
Now Google Can Spy on You at an Angle: 45-Degree View Released
22 days ago on SwitchedGoogle has now announced that you can use its services to get a sideways view of the world. A few months back, Google released its 45-degree aerial photographs to developers, and has since incorporated the perspective into its beta testing ground, ...
'Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots' Goes Augmented Reality on Android
22 days ago on SwitchedWe're suckers here for 'Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots,' and, really, who isn't? Before we were plunking down hundreds of quarters on 'Street Fighter II' or 'Mortal Kombat,' we were making little plastic bots launch haymakers at each other, trying to ...
YouTube Launches Leanback, New HTML5 Mobile Site Gets Better Quality
23 days ago on SwitchedBig changes are afoot at YouTube, on both desktop and mobile fronts. The video sharing site finally launched its new TV-friendly 'Leanback' Web interface yesterday, just a month after parent Google announced its own highly touted GoogleTV ...
Motorola Charm Combines QWERTY, Candybar and Android
24 days ago on SwitchedSince hitting the market in late 2008, Android has had one glaring omission from its repertoire of form factors: a candy-bar style, portrait QWERTY phone like a BlackBerry. Those who fell in love with their BlackJack or Dash back in the day, and are ...
YouTube Hole Exploited by 4Chan, Bieber Bears the Brunt
25 days ago on SwitchedThis weekend, the mischievous hackers that hang out on the boards at 4Chan uncovered and had a field day with a vulnerability in the comments system on YouTube. The exploit allowed the troublemakers to hijack a page by simply leaving a comment with ...
Gay Google Employees to Receive Bonuses to Offset Insurance Taxes
28 days ago on SwitchedGoogle announced yesterday that it would be "grossing-up imputed taxes on health insurance benefits for all same-sex domestic partners in the United States." Basically, the Google Gays (or 'Gayglers,' as the company calls them) who happen to live ...
YouTube to Make Ads Skippable Later This Year
1 month ago on SwitchedGoogle Senior product manager Baljeet Singhe announced Tuesday that YouTube, which is expected to finally make a profit this year, will begin embedding skippable ads in some videos within the next six months. Allowing users to offer feedback or ...
Mom Forces Google to Blur Street View Pic of Her Son's Bum, Dooms His Viral Fame
1 month ago on SwitchedWhen Claire Rowlands searched Google Street View for her mother's home, she expected to see her mom's garden, car and front fence. One thing she didn't expect was her 3-year-old son's bare butt, but that's exactly what Google's camera-equipped car ...
Google News Gets Personal With 'News for You'
1 month ago on SwitchedGoogle News got a major overhaul last night, and, as you'd expect, the site's major changes revolve around user autonomy. The news aggregation site now lets you choose to view stories in headline or section view, and, with the help of a drop-down ...
Google Offers Chinese 'Compromise,' Won't Auto-Direct Users to Hong Kong Site
1 month ago on SwitchedSince withdrawing its services from the Chinese mainland due to concerns over the governmental censorship of online content, Google has been rerouting Chinese searches to its uncensored search page based out of Hong Kong. The Chinese government, of ...
Google's Chrome OS Looking Better Daily
1 month ago on SwitchedAlthough it's only been a few months since November, it seems like forever ago that Google announced Chrome OS, its lightweight Linux plus browser operating system that is aimed at the growing netbook and tablet market. Over the past couple of ...
BBC: Horse-Boy Google Street View Web Gimmick Is Important News
1 month ago on SwitchedWho is Horse-Boy? Internet mystery! You can debate your iamwhoiams all night, but Horse-Boy is a true conundrum. How do we know? Why, the BBC told us so. Britain's biggest news organization is baffled by Horse-Boy, a shadowy figure dressed in ...
Add Vuvuzelas to Almost Anything Online, Even YouTube
1 month ago on SwitchedShare In celebration of... well, we're not sure what exactly (perhaps to raise awareness of migraine sufferers), Google has added a vuvuzela button to YouTube. Just click the soccer ball icon to overlay a loop of the blaring World Cup staples over ...
Droid X Gets Official, Coming to Verizon on July 15 for $200
1 month ago on SwitchedWell AT&T has the iPhone 4, Sprint has the Evo 4G and T-Mobile... well T-Mobile is really nice. Now, Verizon can play the super phone game too with the official announcement of the Droid X. The specs are exactly what were expected: a 4.3-inch ...
