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Mapping Wars

Google is holding an invitation-only event next week in San Francisco, where it says it will show off the “next dimension” of its Maps product. The event comes a week ahead of when Apple is expected to replace Google as the mapping provider in iOS at its annual developers conference, which starts June 11. Also …

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Google Street View Wifi Snooping Cover-Up

Image Courtesy Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The engineer who wrote the code to capture the data told his managers about it. He told his colleagues about it. He wrote the code in his “20% time” – the “spare” time that Google allows staff to do projects that interest them – and it was then incorporated into …

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Google Drive’s Privacy Policy

Google Drive’s Privacy Policy compared to the other players out there. In short, Google is giving itself all the permissions it could possibly need to run all of Google services, with the specific limitations that it doesn’t own anything you upload and it can’t use your data beyond running its services. Also: Dropbox’s language is …

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Man DDOSes his S3 bucket by adding its images in a Google Spreadsheet

I login to my AWS account to see what is going on, and I see this: $1177.76 in usage charges! A thousand, one hundred, seventy seven dollars. Out of which $1065 in outgoing bandwidth transfer costs. The scary part: 8.8 Terabytes of outgoing traffic! Tera. Not Giga. Terabytes. To make things worse, I realized that …

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