A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers’ conference in Las Vegas.
Last week Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, and not only, authentication. Users [...]

NEW YORK - Google Inc will offer Internet developers an open system to create applications across Web sites, a move that could challenge the features behind the explosive popularity of social network Facebook.
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My big complaint about Google Calendar was lack of support for easily syncing calendar data with my smartphone. I use Outlook for my personal information management because it’s still the only thing that puts all my data in one place the way I want it. Google Calendar’s iCal export made manual syncing with Outlook possible, [...]

Read on Marco’s blog how he found that the latest version of Google Earth has a flight simulator embedded. It looks like this is a hidden feature of GE but you can try it for yourself and see that it’s real. To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+A for the initial dialog. Then choose your plane (F16 [...]

Heavens above, now Google reaches for the stars
FIRST it conquered the world. Now it has captured the universe.
The internet giant that created Google Earth, allowing office workers to waste countless hours spying on almost any point on the planet from their desks, has launched a celestial version.
Sky in Google Earth allows viewers to zap across [...]

Privacy International has recently released a study concerning privacy issues. Read this - “An Open Letter to Google”
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from an internal email sent around Microsoft … “The following has been making the rounds on just about every internal email list I belong to in Microsoft. Here it is to share a little insight with the rest of the world. Microsoft is an amazingly transparent company. Google is not. Any peek is a good [...]