Not Much Android News, so time for a little news and a recap.
Show Notes
- Android News
- Google bars developers from using user testimonials in app descriptions.
- Slow news week, so 2014 End of Year Discussion
- In Other News
- NSA quietly releases 12 years of internal reports, prompting headlines like, “Highlights From Newly Released NSA Oversight Reports Reveal Bumbling Ineptitude.“
- North Korea blames U.S. for Internet troubles, says that, “The United States, with its large physical size and oblivious to the shame of playing hide and seek as children with runny noses would, has begun disrupting the Internet operations of the main media outlets of our republic.“
- Is it time to kill voicemail? – Vonage reports that year over year voicemail count dropped 8% in 2012, and an additional 8% in 2013.
- Google’s No Captcha reCaptchas may not be as bot-proof as we thought, but Google insists it will learn.
- Google and Microsoft step in to oppose a petition to the FCC to allow hotel operators to block wifi signals.
- JPMorgan Chase hack due to missing 2-factor authentication on one server.
- Walt Disney World starts accepting Google Wallet
- Guru finds something he doesn’t understand, or rather 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 somethings.
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