This is the most important thing I've read about Android in a very long time. "Android is open — except for all the good parts."
Google publishes a description of how to avoid getting tracked and then does all kind of things to get around the actions of the folks who take their advice.
"Google is not the Eye of Sauron, finding all that is good on the Internet and corrupting it. Nor, despite its mission "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," is it humanity's informational savior. Google is a company that provides an enormously significant online service. When that service raises serious legal questions, we should ask whether it is good for the users or bad for the users."
Ironically, I only know about this applications (which I now plan to use) because it was taken out of the story and got a lot of press.
Project page for google-blockly, which looks a whole lot like Scratch, just without all the fun kids stuff.
I think that writing about a companies internally strategy is pretty risky but the idea that Google is putting its own interest over its users is an interesting idea that meshes pretty well with the whole antifeatures cocept that I've been throwing around.
Nice detailed step-by-step instructions on moving calendar and contacts into ownCloud from Google services.
"In his remarkable ruling, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner stated that there was no point in holding a trial because it was apparent that neither side could show they had been harmed by the other’s patent infringement. He said he was inclined to dismiss the case with prejudice — meaning the parties can’t come back to fight over the same patents — and that he would enter a more formal opinion confirming this next week."
"Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Lua and BeanShell are currently supported, and we're planning to add Ruby and JavaScript support, as well."
Google accidentally collects terrabytes of payload data from open wireless networks. Whoops!
