Google has been facing some serious heat in Europe with the European Commission investigating the Internet giant over allegations that it was preventing competition within the market. The investigation was specifically looking into concerns that Google is blocking competitors, such as Microsoft, when it comes to search results returned online. The investigation has been ongoing […]
You might say the week is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workweek, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Weekly Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past seven days — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
Rumor has it that Google’s future Nexus tablets might not be manufactured by ASUS. Google’s Nexus tablets have been quite successful in the market, according to Digitimes, they account for a “large proportion” of the overall tablet shipments of ASUS. The company recently unveiled two new Android powered tablets at the IFA 2013 trade show in Berlin. The publication believes that ASUS is pushing its new tablets so as to “get away from Google’s aura.”
The company is already expected to reduce Nexus 7′s shipment proportion to under 50 percent by the third quarter of this year. The proportion will reportedly be down to 20 percent by the end of the second quarter of 2014. Google hasn’t officially said as yet if it will go with another manufacturer for future Nexus tablets. The new tablets that ASUS unveiled last week are seen as a push by the company to promote its own brand. Google’s Nexus tablets have been able to perform well in the market particularly because they were competitively priced. One of the tablets that ASUS recently announced is called an “affordable” Android tablet. With the tablet market heating up as it is, we might see ASUS make an even greater push to increase its market share.
ASUS Reportedly Trying To Emerge From Under Google’s ‘Aura’ original content from Ubergizmo. 
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This week AT&T is adding a whole pile of devices to their ranks with several smartphones, a smartwatch, and none other than the ASUS MeMO Pad FHD LTE 10.1. This device is the first time the carrier has officially carried an ASUS tablet, and it’s certainly a decent one: with a 10.1-inch Full HD display […]
This article was written on April 18, 2006 by CyberNet.
With Google’s latest release of the Google Toolbar for Firefox, many users were disappointed to see a lacking of functionality. Everyone thought that they would implement similar features to what the toolbar for Internet Explorer has. However, this was not the case and now someone has finally developed an extension for Firefox that will allow users to have the Google Bookmarks right at their fingertips.
Google Bookmarks is a simple-to-use bookmarking system that Google implemented last year into their Search History functionality. This extension will allow you to view your Google Bookmarks much like how the Google Toolbar Version 4 does for Internet Explorer. In addition to being able to view your bookmarks, you can also add bookmarks very quickly.
So what do Google Bookmarks have that del.icio.us does not? Well they don’t really appear to be trying to compete with del.icio.us but the main feature that I like is that my bookmarks are private. Is Google going to beat the social bookmarking systems? Not a chance, because social bookmarking is almost becoming a way of life for some people. It is an easy way to share sites that you love and to find related sites to the ones that you always visit!
Google Bookmarks Firefox Extension
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Just a few days ago Google released a 2.0 version of its Authenticator app for iOS, but a bug made user’s entries not show up and the company yanked it. Now v2.0.1 is back in the App Store, and it contains a fix for any two factor authentication users that downloaded the busted version. Based on the release notes, your old keys weren’t cleared by the update, but they just weren’t displaying. We tried it out on our iOS device that was blank after 2.0 and it worked as advertised, all accounts show up again. Although it’s safe to upgrade there is one more issue: anyone who created replacement accounts already will have duplicates. To avoid that, your best bet is to rename any new entries before updating — staying secure is fun and easy, isn’t it?
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Source: iTunes
Google is accelerating efforts to toughen its data encryption, the company has revealed, aiming to curtail unofficial snooping on user information in the aftermath of NSA PRISM controversy. “It’s an arms race” Eric Grosse, vice president for security engineering at Google, told the Washington Post, describing government-mandated hackers as “the most skilled players in this […]
This article was written on July 22, 2006 by CyberNet.
You can now subscribe to a search in Google Base so that you can watch for new items people might add. After performing a search in Google Base you just have to select the RSS icon located in the upper-right corner of the screen. You then continue appropriately depending on how you normally subscribe to new feeds. If you have a full feed reader (not something like Firefox’s Live Bookmarks) then the entry in the feeds should appear similar to the image below. I was actually surprised to see that Google included pictures of the items so that people don’t even have to go check Google Base to see what the item looks like. Google also has a page designated to the RSS specifications in the help section.
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For a company that keeps millions of users’ personal emails and data under lock and key, Google found itself in a bad place earlier this year — on a list of “providers” that reportedly gave the NSA direct access to their central servers. The company immediately took steps to calm consumers, assuring its user base that it didn’t create a federal “back door,” and demanding more transparency from government agencies. Now, the Mountain View search giant has told The Washington Post that it’s accelerating its encryption initiative, which will hopefully offer users another layer of comforting protection.
“It’s an arms race,” Google VP of security engineering Eric Grosse told the paper. “We see these government agencies as among the most skilled players in this game.” That is to say, protecting user data isn’t easy — intelligence firms and skilled hackers can eventually find their way around even the most sophisticated encryption, but building these kinds of walls has become a necessity in a post-PRISM world. The move is designed to protect Google users against unauthorized snooping, but Mountain View will still have to comply with court orders and official requests. Still, who are we to argue with a more defensible inbox?
Via: Ars Technica
Source: Washington Post
So we talked about smart watches this entire week, we’ll talk about the next iPhone and different color options all of next week and we’ll eventually start seeing if the upcoming iPad and iPad Mini are worth a damn next month which will give way for a conversation about the Xbox One, PS4, Kinect, rumbling triggers and DualShock 4s before the holidays. Oh and we can’t forget about the Nexus 5 and whatever else Google has up its sleeve. Sprinkle in different sentences about whatever new buzzy laptop or new black puck or maybe even an amazing TV and well, there are a lot of things going on right now in our shiny gadget world.
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