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Posted by Khürt Williams on Feb 9, 2012 in Google+ | 0 comments

Source: Google drive cloud to rain on Apple, Dropbox parade • The Register

Never one to miss out on an up-and-coming tech trend, Google is all set to launch its very own cloud storage service, competing with the likes of Dropbox, Microsoft and Apple. 

People familiar with the matter were unable to keep schtum and spilled to the Wall Street Journal (paywall), telling it that the Chocolate Factory’s new service Drive was getting ready to burst on the scene with online storage for files that can be accessed from any device with a Wi-Fi connection.

I thought this was mostly rumor. I already pay Google for extra storage for Picasa, Google Docs. I would be excited to have direct access to that from my desktop.

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Down the wrong Path.

Posted by Khürt Williams on Feb 9, 2012 in Google+ | 1 comment

iOS Address Book access should prompt the user for permission – Marco.org

The popular Path app was caught uploading and permanently storing people’s entire address books on Path’s servers. People were upset, but what’s scarier is the bigger issue: apparently, this is a very common practice among popular apps.

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Common practice? I certainly hope not.  In fact, I think application should need apps to prompt for access to any device data — location, address book, network etc. From an information security standpoint, this makes sense.  What do you think?

Quad Core iPads?

Posted by Khürt Williams on Feb 9, 2012 in Google+ | 0 comments

What sort of tasks would the general user want to do that would require a Quad core processor?

Source: A quad-core iPad 3? Not so fast

A quad-core Apple chip powering the iPad 3 is not moral certainty. Here are some reasons why. Read this blog post by Brooke Crothers on Nanotech — The Circuits Blog.

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