Google Nexus S Leaks: Using Android Gingerbread
It is widely heard that Google would be holding Samsung to create the successor of Google Nexus One. Last leaks circulating in cyberspace show, it will be named Nexus S handsets running the Android OS was found to Gingerbread. As quoted from the Inquirer last Friday, a tech site Xda Developers claims to have got the exclusive pictures reveals that Nexus S adopt the Gingerbread. Some of the photos that they show the show is also a form of Nexus S.
“Thanks to the source who chooses to remain anonymous, we got exclusive photos Gingerbread (at Nexus S). We also got some pictures Samsung Nexus S,” claims the website.
Honestly, the picture tends to blur even shows a little that the website claims can be accounted for. Quite clearly visible on the screen that the handset used Android version is 2.3, aka Gingerbread. Estimates for the Nexus S specification includes dual core processors ARMv7 CPU, 512MB or 328MB of RAM and Super AMOLED screen. There has been no confirmation either from Google or Samsung about this handset, so that consumers must be looking forward to the truth
Google Is Ready to Snatch Microsoft Office Users
Google has announced a new service that combines the Google Docs and Microsoft Office. Ready to ‘seize’ Office users, the new service called Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office.
Basically this is a plug-in for Office. Once installed, Cloud Connect will enable the edited document in MS Office Docs stored on Google servers. Not just that, Google Docs users can collaborate to edit the document through Microsoft Office. Cloud Connect can run on MS Office 2010, 2007 and 2003. MS Office Users simply have a Google account to run it.
Shan Sinha, Group Product Manager at Google, said that there are already tens of millions of users of Google Docs. “Obviously, we know many of you who still use Microsoft Office,” he wrote in the official Google blog.
Google Cloud Connect is an evolution of a product called DocVerse, and Sinha is one of the founders DocVerse, companies that have been bought by Google in early 2010.
Firefox Add-On “Firesheep” Can Plough Facebook and Twitter
A new Firefox add-on lets anyone to hijack other people access to Facebook, Twitter and other social networking services via WiFi tracking. The Add-on which is called ‘Firesheep’ was released by Eric Butler, a freelance web application developer from Seattle, in the event ToorCon Security Conference, in San Diego, United States (U.S.).
Firesheep which has already been downloaded 50 thousand times since it was launched, adding a sidebar in the Firefox browser that shows anyone who is using a WiFi connection in public areas, and sites they visit. “By doing double-click on an existing one in the sidebar, you can log in as a person,” said Butler
Reported by Computer World on Tuesday, Butler said he created the Firesheep to show people the dangers of unencrypted access via a WiFi connection. “This will leave the cookies, and users certainly vulnerable being hijacked. In an open wireless network, a cookie is basically shown to the public, making this kind of attack is very easy to do,” Butler wrote in his blog. With the available cookies, the user is in the grip of his hand, a cyber criminals can do anything on that site. The sites that is comonly hijacked by Firesheep including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, bit.ly, Google and Amazon.
