Google’s Privacy Bungle

Google has recently taken a large amount of criticism for capturing unencrypted wireless network traffic as part of its Street View project. Google admitted to the world that although it was only looking to capture station MAC addresses it inadvertently also captured the payload data. Many articles have emerged blasting Google [...]

Google G1: Six months on

So six months ago I bought my Google G1, my first impressions were excited and extremely positive. Has this phone stood the test of time though?

Physically

The phone is still in good physical condition, which is more than I could have said about my old XDA Atom Flame after six months. There are a few scratches [...]

Google C&Ds CyanogenMod

In an act that appears to contradict both the ‘do no evil’ and the ‘android is open’ mantras of Google they sent a Cease and Desist to CyanogenMod creator Cyanogen. This effectively means that all cooked versions can now no longer include and Google applications, sync with Google services or the many other closed source [...]

The T-Mobile G1 Phone

The T-Mobile G1 Phone goes by a few names. HTC Dream and Google Android Development phone are two more. Essentially they are the same hardware and the only change is the software. The Android Development phone unlike the others comes with an unlocked bootloader allowing you to flash any software image you want where the [...]

Google’s New Search Engine

Thanks to a post by my friend Daryl, I’ve been looking at the improved Google search engine, codenamed Caffeine. Google has had a bunch of competition lately. Bing which is Microsoft’s new search engine recently launched, followed by an announcement that Yahoo will use Bing as its engine.

The current version of Google updates its index [...]