November 30, 2011

Secret Software Spying On Millions Of Phones

Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything

November 25, 2011

Carrier IQ Drops Empty Legal Threat

Today mobile software company Carrier IQ withdrew (pdf) a bogus legal threat to a security researcher who published an analysis of the company's software, as well as training materials on which he based his research.

November 24, 2011

Closed Captioned movies in the Android Market

Google makes accommodations for the deaf and hard of hearing communities, whereas Netflix and Blockbuster have left us behind.

November 19, 2011

Google’s Chris DiBona Calls Out Mobile Antivirus Companies

From this article by Chris DiBona of Google:

Sometimes I read an article about open source that drives me nuts. A recent one stated, without irony, that 'critics have been pounding the table for years about open source being inherently insecure' and that android is festooned with viruses because of that and because we do not exert apple like controls over the app market.

November 16, 2011

Barnes & Noble Expose Microsoft Shenanigans

This behavior by Microsoft shows the brass knuckles mentality which has won them so many enemies over the years in the open source community.

November 08, 2011

Android isn't a stolen product

The Android effort started before the iPhone effort.