Monthly Archives: August 2015

Google refreshes design of mobile web app search results

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The Google Play app is an attractive way to search for applications, but the Play Store’s mobile web search counterpart has never quite looked as good. That is, until now.

Google is rolling out an updated mobile web app search that divides the results into a colorful grid. The grid is broken up into multi-colored boxes that include an app’s icon, its name, its rating, and its price. And, as you’d expect, tapping the box will kick you to the app’s page in Google Play for easy installation. You can also tap the expand button at the bottom of the screen to expand the list of apps.

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The new results are nice because they highlight the app icon by placing it in its own box, and they’re also easy to read because the boxes are different colors. You can see the new-look results for yourself by searching “____ apps” in Google on your Android phone or tablet.

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In a first, over a billion people logged onto Facebook in a single day

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This past Monday was special for Facebook as the social network saw over a billion people using it on that day, something that has happened for the first time in the company’s history. The statistic was revealed by none other than Mark Zuckerberg himself.

“We just passed an important milestone. For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day,” the CEO said in a Facebook post. “On Monday, 1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family.”

While Facebook has already achieved 1 billion monthly active users milestone, having the same number of people using the service in a single day is much more significant. According to official statistics, the social network had an average of 968 million daily active users and 1.49 billion monthly active users last…

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Google Is Undermining Apple’s New Security Protections

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Google Is Undermining Apple’s New Security Protections
Apple’s iOS 9 is coming soon, and one of the new features in the mobile operating system enhances privacy and security for users by blocking unencrypted traffic for apps. It’s called App Transport Security (ATS). Google’s response today was to explain to its developers how to circumvent it, so ads can load.

August 27, 2015 at 06:57PM
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