Month: June 2010

Google Activates Remote Kill Switch For The First Time

We all know that any smart phone maker — like Google, Apple, or Microsoft — builds in a back door exclusively for the down-the-line removal of any unforeseen problems. But we smart phone consumers still find it a little fishy (and depressing) when such a backdoor is put to use, such as the case with Google in its Android recently. Google unleashed its weapons this week upon a couple of apps that can prove disastrous to your device. Google announced that it removed two useless but still Terms of Service-infringing apps. Google does admit, however, that most of the...

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A Surprise in Every iPhone 4

Did you ever notice that when Apple hypes its products the tech specs are not always the focus of that hype. Rather Steve Jobs tends to put out there how wonderful the phone will perform but not necessarily technically why. We simple get revved by the fact that the device, such as th eiPad for example,  is “magical”. In the case of the iPhone Jobs said its“the biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone”.Hardly any consumer can spout out the RAM or Memory or any other tech spec as long as the device works fine. So perhaps that...

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Firefox 3.6.4 Released But Only For Some

The newest version of Mozilla’s Firefox, version 3.6.4 has been released after much delay. Many will be pleased that the new version’s major update is added protection against  crashing due to third-party plugins such as Adobe Flash, which was one of the main culprits. This new feature is called OOPP, “out-of-process plugins”. There are many other bug fixes and stability upgrades included in the new version but OOPP is the most welcome. Crash protection utilizes out-of-process plugins technology to run third-party plugins (specifically Flash, Quicktime, and Silverlight) in a separate process. In the past, a plugin crash would take...

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