Years ago Google added SSL encryption to products ranging from Gmail to Google Docs and others, and they continued to enable encryption on more services. Like banking and e-commerce sites, Google’s encryption extends beyond login passwords to the entire service. This session-wide encryption is a significant privacy advantage over systems that only encrypt login pages and credit card information. Early this year, Google took an important step forward by making SSL the default setting for all Gmail users. And today they’re gradually rolling out a new choice to search more securely at https://www.google.com.
Android still looks like an inferior system compared to the iphone.
Google will unveil the Nexus one, a cell phone running on Android OS, on January 5 in California. Nexus One will cost $529.99 or $179.99 with a two-year T-Mobile contract. (PC magazine)
The new Nexus One smartphone from Google runs the open Android operating system, which means that users can configure their cell phones with all manner of software applications available from third-party developers. As it is a communications handset, it sports a number of different types of communication software packages. Which one do you like the most?
Tuff-Luv Apocalypse Guardian Classic Leather Pull-E slip case
HTC Google Nexus One Red Rubberized Case+Screen Protector Guard
Nexus One Solid Protector Case - Red Galaxy
Nexus One Gummy Case - Red and Black
Piel Frama HTC Google Nexus One Leather Case (Red)
The Nexus one is a high performance smartphone, but every device can use a little boost from the power of red. Red makes things appear to move faster, even if they don't, and that same psychological effect takes hold when one beholds a computer bedecked in red. Which of these great red cases would you prefer for a Nexus One phone?
University of Tokyo, Japan. A system developed by lab members Takashi Nakashima and Yoshihiro Watanabe, lets you scan a book by rapidly flipping its pages in front of a high-speed camera. They call this method book flipping scanning. According to Automaton blogger Erico Guizzo, they can digitize a 200-page book in one minute, and hope to make that even faster.
Billy Hime, a self-professed iPhone Owner and Youtube Video Blogger must really love Apple. That is the only way to explain why he filmed himself getting an Apple tattoo with his mom.
The Adam tablet computer from Inidan developer Notion Ink is an amazing new way to interact with the web and digital media.This portable device uses the open Android OS developed by Google for smart phones. This means that the device can run all sorts of free software already available from the Android Marketplace. Which of these free travel software apps do you like best for you new Notion Ink Adam?
Unlike the iPad, the Notion Ink Adam uses open hardware and is therefore capable of running different operating systems. In addition to the Android install that comes on the devices, users will be able to choose to use Google's much anticipated Chrome OS (if it ever comes out) or a slimmed-down version of popular Linux distro Ubuntu. Which of these operating systems do you think is best?
