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Sharing your location through Glympse has been a time-sensitive affair, with friends and family receiving links to maps that would plot your position for a few hours at most. Now, however, Glympse has partnered with Evernote to save records of your travels. Simply share your current location broadcast to Evernote and the complete trek will be saved to a “My Glympse Trails” folder. Android users are getting the first crack at the new feature starting today, but folks running the iOS app are set to receive the integration shortly. Check your handset for the update or click the bordering source link to grab ahold of the app.

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Source: Glympse (GooglePlay)

‘Stop using Google and Facebook’ is the advice from Germany’s highest security official, warning web users concerned about NSA monitoring to steer clear of anything that might pass through US services. “Whoever fears their communication is being intercepted in any way should use services that don’t go through American servers” Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich cautioned today, the AP reports, the latest in escalating German concerns about the extent of US spying programs like PRISM

German politicians have been some of the most outspoken after the revelations of data gathering in recent weeks, though the pitch was turned up considerably once whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed alleged details of how the NSA and other US agencies monitored EU politicians. The country has threatened a full investigation of NSA activities, and warned that civil lawsuits from German citizens are highly likely.

According to Interior Minister Friedrich, a German delegation will fly to Washington next week for a meeting with US officials. On the agenda are the concerns that not only individual European citizens but EU politicians were being spied on.

However, Friedrich’s advice to avoid ostensibly US web services, like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others, may prove tricky to actually follow. Even data used by non-US companies could well travel through US networks – giving them at least one opportunity to collect a copy, even if they then require, officially, a warrant to dig through it – or be stored on servers hosted in the US.

A recent Spiegel feature on how the NSA targets international traffic also suggests that traffic needn’t even reach the US for it to be monitored. The security agency reportedly has involvement “in a number of large internet hubs in western and southern Germany” insiders tell the magazine, with German counterparts supposedly knowing about some – though not all – of the tracking.

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Dump Google, Facebook and other US sites warns German security chief is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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EE invited us to a breakfast get-together this morning, and spectrum was on the menu. Back in April, EE reported that it would be doubling the LTE spectrum allocation in ten cities, promising twice the speeds, at some point during the summer. We now know the switch is being flipped tomorrow, and in addition to the ten already announced, Derby and Nottingham are also getting double bandwidth to play with.

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Facebook brought stickers to its Android and iOS apps this spring, and they’re reaching the web right as summer hits full stride. As in the mobile space, desktop users can now use critters, giant smileys and other over-the-top graphics in their private messages. A store is on hand for those who want to venture beyond Facebook’s free catalog. Web stickers are available today — if 🙂 just won’t cut it for your conversations, you’ll now have a more expressive set of emoticons wherever you go.

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It’s the sixth device that Netgear has released with future-ready 802.11ac wireless connectivity, but it’s the first that’s coming in at under a bill. That’s right under a hundred bucks here in the USA, and at that point working with AC1200 dual-band technology becomes accessible by the masses. The company suggests that, when the situation is optimal, this device is capable of handling Wi-Fi speeds up to 1200 Mbps with Fast Ethernet wired connections – but you’ll need the right gear to go with it, of course.

Devices such as the newest generation MacBook Air, the Samsung Galaxy S 4, and the HTC One are out on the market right this minute with integrated 802.11ac W-Fi support. Of course this R6100 dual-band router is backwards-compatible as well, so it’s not as if you’ll NEED to work with machines that make use of its highest-powered deliverables: 802.11a/b/g/n devices all work as well or better than they have with previous solutions.

Here you’ve got the ability to work with speeds “up the three times faster” than past 802.11n connections, here offering up 2.4 GHz band support with a “less interference-prone” bit of technology than the 5GHz band.

At the moment, this machine’s integrated compatibility with the standard 802.11ac is the fastest in the world. The 802.11ac wireles standard is the fastest Wi-Fi int he world at the moment, that is – with Gigabit Wi-Fi speeds for the future of desktop and laptop computers as well as mobile devices of many kinds.

While just Samsung and HTC have delivered smartphones with this standard technology compatibility inside at the moment, more solutions are on the way – just you wait!

The Netgear R6100 dual-band Wi-Fi router is coming in with compatibility for their free app “Netgear genie”, made for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android alike. This app enables ease in control and the monitoring of your home network – you can grab that app right this minute from your favorite app store.

Netgear R6100 router brings futuristic speed with dual-band Wi-Fi is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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