“Google’s security researchers are well known for uncovering vulnerabilities in other people’s products. Standard operating procedure is to give the affected company sixty days before publishing the problem, keeping things under wraps until a fix can be shipped out.”
How to enable the new Gmail in a web browser
“Google just announced a pretty major update to Gmail, and you should now be to give it a go in the browser, if you so desire.”
New Google Apps admin app for Android announced
“If you or your company uses Google Apps, or you’re an IT admin of sorts with a company or client who does, chances are you’re fully aware of how much of a pain management of users can be while on the run. Now, Google has announced the new mobile Admin app.”
Google Calendar update brings custom event colors and redesigned UI for date and time pickers
“It was back in October Google made the stock version of their Google Calendar available for download on Google Play and today they’re bringing a nice update that addresses a few concerns with the app. First, users can now pick custom colors for events.”
Check out the latest version of Google Calendar for Android. Now you can highlight those super-urgent…
Check out the latest version of Google Calendar for Android. Now you can highlight those super-urgent meetings and important birthdays, or just switch up the color of your calendar whenever your heart desires. And for all of you world travelers, our redesigned timezone picker makes it simpler to find the region that you’re looking for, whether you’re in San Francisco, Tokyo or Zurich.
Download the latest version of Google Calendar on Google Play, rolling out over the course of the day: http://goo.gl/Wu7b5
Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”
“In March, readers followed along as Nate Anderson, Ars deputy editor and a self-admitted newbie to password cracking, downloaded a list of more than 16,000 cryptographically hashed passcodes. Within a few hours, he deciphered almost half of them.”
High-altitude traffic jams are depriving Mount Everest of its sense of adventure
“Climbing Mount Everest is no longer the challenge it used to be, climbing experts are protesting.”
Bell Labs doubles beams in fiber optic lines to reach 400Gbps on a global scale
“It’s comparatively easy to run fiber optic lines at high speeds; it’s another matter to sustain that pace between continents. Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs has found a way to go that extreme distance by relying on the basic concept behind noise-cancelling headphones.”