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- Third-Party Android Browser Found To Be Transmitting Every URL Visited
- HP Preparing To Kill webOS For Good, Fire Staff
- Google TV Finally Getting Honeycomb Update, Market Access Next Week
- Cool Site of the Week: Listen to a Movie
- HP VP Confirms An Ultrabook Is Coming
- Judge Tells San Francisco to Chillax on Cell Phone Radiation Warnings
- Ghoulify Your Google+ Profile Pic With New Halloween Image Filters
- Motorola Maserati (Droid 4) Rolls into View
- DC Universe Online Introducing Free-To-Play November 1st
- Bill Gates: Hamburgers Taste the Same When You're a Billionaire
| Third-Party Android Browser Found To Be Transmitting Every URL Visited Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:04 PM PDT
It appears that any URL, be it secured or not is sent with no security whatsoever. For its part, Dolphin says that the data is not retained, and anyway the issue was addressed in a recent update. Though, in an update Android Police says its original version was done with the new version. Users of rooted phones can block access to the Dolphin webzines server that the data is going to. Other users are encouraged to sop using the app. While this background service is not sending the contents of pages. it is still unacceptable to have every URL you visit sent unencrypted into the open internet. Considering the attention this is getting, we expect a fix to be incoming soon. Does this make you weary about using Dolphin HD in the future? |
| HP Preparing To Kill webOS For Good, Fire Staff Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:46 PM PDT
HP bought Palm in 2010 for $1.2 billion, but spent nearly a year getting the first new webOS devices out. The program was unceremoniously frozen by former HP CEO Leo Apotheker, and new CEO Meg Whitman seems to be following through on it. The speculation is backed up by Whitman's deflection of questions on webOS in the recent earnings call. She preferred to discuss Windows 8 slates over webOS. There has been talk of selling Palm, but if HP is truly shuttering it, there must not have been any takers. It would be sad to see webOS go, but the market just might not be capable of supporting another mobile OS. Do you think this is the webOS swan song? |
| Google TV Finally Getting Honeycomb Update, Market Access Next Week Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:32 PM PDT
The new interface ditches those terrible text menus, and relies instead on a new desktop with icons. There is a TV and Movies app that aggregates all the video content you have access to from sources like cable/satellite, Netflix, and Amazon. The Android Market is finally going to be on Google TV, but apps that require phone hardware including touchscreens and GPS, won't show up at all. That means a smaller than expected selection of apps to start, but Google says that more than 50 developers have GTV-optimized apps ready to go. Unfortunately, not all Google TV devices are getting the update at the same time. The Sony TV and Blu-Ray player with Google TV built in are first up next week, and the Logitech Revue will get it later. Does this make you want a Google TV device any more? |
| Cool Site of the Week: Listen to a Movie Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:53 AM PDT
The brainchild of a cubicle bound code monkey that enjoys listening to movies while he works, Listen to a Movie is a free and easy way to get your film fix while still managing to be productive at the same time. Simply select the soundtrack of a movie or television show from the site's huge catalog of titles, put on a pair of headphones and start listening. Listen to a Movie streams the audio from the flick of your choice to your computer, entertaining with some of Hollywood's finest fare on the sly. If you're not in the mood to listen to a movie, the site even offers a limited selection of radio shows and stand up comedy to take in. While it might not be as good as calling in sick in favor of spending your afternoon with a DVDs, it'll definitely get you by in a pinch.
Oh, and should you run across an old favorite or a newly discovered gem that your feel simply needs to be seen, Listen to a Movie provides links to all of the movies it features for Amazon, Netflix and IMDB, making it easy to locate a copy to watch once your time is your own again. Be sure to check back every Friday for another edition of Maximum PC's Cool Site of the Week.
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| HP VP Confirms An Ultrabook Is Coming Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:11 AM PDT
"Ultramobile is a notebook category of sub-17 millimeter notebooks," Todd Bradley, the executive vice president of HP's Personal Systems Group, said in a conference call late yesterday. "We're very focused on having a suite in that ultramobile space. And you'll see that very soon." So there you have it: HP's finally getting into the Ultrabook game. Will its as-yet-unknown notebook be able to hang with the Ultrabooks Acer, Asus and Toshiba have put out? Only time will tell, but a strong offering would definitely help the company regain some glory in end-users' eyes. |
| Judge Tells San Francisco to Chillax on Cell Phone Radiation Warnings Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:51 AM PDT
U.S. District Judge William Alsup said the warnings give off an "untrue and misleading" impression that "cell phones are dangerous and they have somehow escaped the regulatory process." He also pointed out that every single mobile phone sold in the U.S. must meet certain federally regulated safety standards set forth by the FCC. The ordinance was to go into effect next week and require that cell phone dealers give each customer a fact sheet pointing out that RF emissions from mobile handsets have been classified as a "possible carcinogen" by the World Health Organization. Similar warnings would also have to appear on wall posters and stickers attached to display ads. Alsup didn't overturn the entire ordinance, but did order the city to rewrite the fact sheet and remove the display requirements. |
| Ghoulify Your Google+ Profile Pic With New Halloween Image Filters Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:36 AM PDT
You can access the Creative Kit by opening up your profile and clicking on the "Photos" tab. Select the picture you want to tweak, then click Edit > Creative Kit. Up at the top, you'll see a bunch of tabs, including – you guessed it – "Halloween." The freaky filters appear on the left side of the screen. You can spruce up your looks with scars, blood spray, lightning bolts, fake beards, decayed zombie skin, vampire eyes and teeth, masks and more, including some nifty texture filters. It's a lot of fun, and after turning yourself into a putrid creature of the night, you can save the picture then set it as your profile pic on the "Profile" screen. Go check it out! (By the way, if you feel like seeing the filters in action or following your third-favorite Maximum PC contributor's odd ramblings, you can check out my Google+ profile.) |
| Motorola Maserati (Droid 4) Rolls into View Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:28 AM PDT
Droid-Life.com got its hands on a few leaked photos of the Droid 4 and was able to dig up some specs. According to the site's sources, the physical keyboard, which is the best "ever seen on a smartphone," is just one of several features to be excited about. The Droid 4 will ride into town with a 4-inch Super AMOLED windshield, a RAZR style chassis, 4G LTE support, 1080p video recording, front-facing camera, HDMI, MotoACTV syncing, and Android 2.3.5 in the driver's seat. What isn't yet known is the processor (probably a dual-core chip clocked above 1GHz), RAM, and included storage space. One downer though is a battery that's non-removable -- how Apple-esque. Image Credit: Droid-Life.com |
| DC Universe Online Introducing Free-To-Play November 1st Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:13 AM PDT
For the low, low price of $0, you'll be able to play the base game to your heart's content. You'll be hamstringed compared to other players, though; the free version is limited to 2 character slots, 28 inventory slots, 0 auction slots, 1500 max currency and 6 text chat messages every thirty seconds – no voice chat allowed. Oh yeah, you can't trade with other players, either. If you buy $5 worth of in-game purchases, you'll be tossed into the "Premium" tier, which raises a lot of those caps to, well, even higher caps. Or, you can spend $15 a month on a "Legendary" subscription that opens up tons of various slots and abilities as well as free access to DLC content. Even though the freebie limitations are kind of harsh, you can't beat the price. Not sure which tier is right for you? Check out the tier-by-tier breakdown over at the DC Universe Online website. |
| Bill Gates: Hamburgers Taste the Same When You're a Billionaire Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:39 AM PDT
The billionaire Harvard dropout and Microsoft founder recently spoke to students and faculty at the University of Washington, in which he stressed the importance of education and how it ties into philanthropy. And then he held a Q&A session, during which time a student asked Gates how she could make herself rich, just like him. "I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that," Gates responded, according to GeekWire.com. "But once you get much beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger. [Seattle fast food joint] Dick's has not raised their prices enough. But being ambitious is good. You just have to pick what you enjoy doing." Until we become billionaires ourselves, we'll have to take his word for it. In the meantime, there's always In-N-Out and Five Guys, if you happen to live near either one. Image Credit: Flickr kafka4prez |
Dolphin Browser HD is one of the most popular alternative browsers on Android, which is why the latest news on that front is so 
As an addendum to yesterday's revelation that HP was staying in the PC business, it sounds like webOS is on its way to an early grave. We don't mean that the HP is going to spin it off, or re-purpose the platform for something else, we mean kill it dead and shed 500 jobs in the process. The Guardian claims to have the 
There are two things you need to know here. First, Google TV is still a thing. Secondly, and perhaps more startling, the long-awaited Honeycomb update is 
Fun Fact: Most people would rather watch a movie than go to work... unless of course watching movies is one of your job functions, in which case you might be happier reading a book--It's a strange world out there. Unfortunately, the majority of we worker bees aren't able to take in a flick while on the clock, forced instead to keep our eyes on spreadsheets, assembly lines and work orders. Don't fret: Hollywood's just a set of headphones away, thanks to 
So, it's official: HP is staying in the PC game. Way to make the right choice, Meg Whitman! But even though the company has decided to stick to the status quo and keep offering hardware for the masses, the masses are a little confused HP's recent "WTF?" business maneuvering. Whitman's well aware of the confusion the flip-flopping has caused. So how is HP going to win back the hearts and minds of customers? Maybe with a kick-ass Ultrabook. A company VP confirmed that one of the diminutive powerhouses is on HP's radar sometime down the line.
A San Francisco judge on Thursday ruled that a city-wide ordinance mandating that cell phone vendors warn customers about radiation are a little too strict, the 
What better way is there to get in the spirit of Halloween than to dress up like a zombie or vampire and splatter blood and scars all over yourself? Answer: there isn't one. But doing that in real life takes tons of expensive costume makeup and waaaaaay more patience than we have. Fortunately, you can get the same effect without all the tedious paint application thanks to some Halloween filters available in Google+'s new Creative Kit for photos. 
When it launches, Motorola's Maserati will be known as the Droid 4, so that should alleviate any confusion as to whether Motorola's getting into the automobile business (it's not). Hardcore typists who want nothing to do with a virtual keyboard and prefer to pilot a physical plank will want to take the Droid 4 out for a spin, on 4G LTE highways, no less.
If none of the titles we mentioned in our 
We tend to agree with Bruno Mars that being a billionaire would frickin' rock, and so would being on the cover of Forbes Magazine. And who wouldn't like to play a game of pickup ball with the President and flush one down over top of his delegates? Travie McCoy gets it. But hey, you can take it from Bill Gates that while being rich is grand and all, it's just more of the same.| You are subscribed to email updates from Maximum PC - All Articles To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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