If you watched movies such as Stardust, Coraline, or seen episodes of Doctor Who, the name Neil Gaiman might be one familiar to you. Comic book fans will also have heard of Gaiman’s incredibly popular graphic novel, The Sandman, and […]
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Installing an Android app brings up a permissions prompt that most folks ignore (though they probably shouldn’t). But, what if you could grant applications access to some parts of your smartphone and not others? That’s something Android Police have discovered is already baked into Android 4.3, and it’s called “Apps Ops.” The feature is hidden by default, but can easily be enabled via a third-party app in the Play Store, which brings it to life and allows you to fine tune other apps’ permissions to read your contacts, access your location via GPS, or even read your call log. This is a buried feature and we have no idea if and when it’ll be officially activated, but it looks like Google’s pledge for better privacy could mean more than just an incognito mode.
Filed under: Mobile
Source: Android Police, Google Play Store
Back in May we reported that headphone manufacturer ,JAYS announced their a-JAYS Five series of earphones for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. At that time the earphones were listed as “coming soon”, but it looks like “soon” actually means August. […]
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Blizzard’s MMORPG, World of Warcraft, has been around for many, many years, with some gamers actually criticizing the game’s graphics for not being as up-to-date compared to newer MMOs, and also the fact that Blizzard has “dumbed” the game down […]
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With the Ouya console being powered by Android, it means that developers who create games for the Android operating system on mobile devices could technically develop games for the console as well, and since mobile games come in free and […]
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A tipster has told us that the latest Nexus 7 from Asus and Google will hit Best Buy stores today, and a pre-order we placed earlier for the device seems to confirm that. We put our money down for one when the order page first went up, and while the confirmation originally said it would arrive on the original July 30th launch date, it’s now telling us that we can expect our tablet later today. That jibes with info we were given by a source claiming to be the manager of a Best Buy store. He said that while pre-orders started yesterday, “there were few (of them) in my region,” meaning that “if you are present at a (Best Buy) location today at opening, you have a good chance of buying the tablet.” He added that some stores don’t have stock yet due to agreements with Google, but pre-orders are still possible at those locations. Until we receive confirmation, however, you may not want to make a long journey to one of the outlets. Meanwhile, we’ve reached out to both Google and Best Buy.
Update: Best Buy has touched base, telling us “we can confirm that the Nexus is available at all Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores and BestBuy.com now.”
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Being a human’s great, but sometimes it would be cool to experience the world from a different perspective. I’d love to be this little wasp, hitching a ride on the back of a damselfly.
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The White House’s main telecom adviser, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), has issued a first draft of a mobile apps code of contact, with the goal of giving consumers more control of their privacy. It was created over several years in cooperation with privacy advocates, app developers and gatekeepers like Apple, Google and Blackberry. If adopted, publishers will be required to provide “short form notices” telling consumers whether or not their data is being collected and how it’s being used. Such data would include biometrics, browser history, phone or SMS logs, contact info, financial data, health, medical or therapy info, user files and location data.
The document was backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, though it wasn’t crazy about the amount of time the process took, saying that “comprehensive privacy legislation” was also needed. It’s worth noting that major app store operators already agreed recently to put new privacy policy standards in place that conform with California’s Online Privacy Protection Act. There’s also the irony of the US government pushing for more consumer privacy, while perhaps being the largest abuser via PRISM. Dig into the source for the full read.
Filed under: Internet, Software
Via: TNW
Source: NTIA
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