I received my Google+ invite this morning and have been playing around with Google’s “answer” to Facebook since then. The thing that I like about it most is the circles feature which allows you to create groups of friends or contacts. One of the problems that Facebook currently has is that you do not have [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

The Google Toolbar is a web browser add-on that is currently available for Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The toolbar is an official Google application that provides quick access to several Google services and features like translating web pages or sharing websites with friends. Everyone knows that the Google Toolbar transfers data to Google [...]

Categories: Browsing, Security

Privacy is a big issue on the Internet these days and companies like Google have to put a lot of effort into convincing or reassuring Internet users that they do care about the individual user’s privacy. A recent post at Google’s Privacy blog explains Google’s approach to privacy in the form a presentation that lists [...]

Categories: Google

If You Have Something That You Don’t Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn’t Be Doing It In The First Place. That is what Google’s CEO Erik Schmidt said in a live CNBC broadcast last week. The sentence itself does not make that much sense as there is a huge difference between doing something and [...]

Categories: Google, Security, The Web

Google today launched a new service for Google account holders called Google Dashboard. Google Dashboard is a all-in-one dashboard that offers a decent view of a user’s usage of Google services. The dashboard basically lists specific information about data that each Google service has stored for that Google account. This ranges from information about received [...]

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Google Update is a background program by Google that gets installed if the user installs Google software like Google Pack on a computer system. The program has caused some concern – more so than other background updaters with the exception of ctfmon.exe – because of the frequency that it gets reinstalled and reactivated by Google [...]

Categories: Google, Security, Software

The release of Google Chrome and its Open Source counterpart Chromium put Google for the first time in the position that Microsoft was in for the last ten years or so. Users are looking at Microsoft products with suspicion suspecting privacy breaches and data collection on large scales. This is especially apparent in Microsoft operating [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome