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Lloyd Cledwyn
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From: Adam Nave <na...@macalester.edu>
Date: Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Subject: Friday Google updates
To: ITS Staff <its-...@lists.macalester.edu>, Johan Oberg <job...@macalester.edu>, Lloyd Cledwyn <cle...@macalester.edu>



Google Apps Updates

Safe Browsing - 5 years and counting

Custom themes in Gmail are back

Admins can enforce 2-step verification for users (including a subset)

G+ profile updates
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/21/google-plus-update 

Other Google Updates

Five best Android launchers

Revisiting the YouTube-sponsored original content channels

Android apps that use power controls API are often "battery killers"

More project glass patents

Google bots detect 9500 new malicious sites each day

Google Offers hits the iPhone

Nexus Tablet to be unveiled next week

Maps to include waterway travel in England and Wales

Google I/O 2012 app

New experimental interface for search

Use your Android phone as a full fledged web server

Android app lets you steal cc data via NFC (security proof of concept)

Android Developers site refresh

Google Play top devs can reply to user reviews, smack trolls

Android 4.1 (jelly bean) coming soon

Google Image Search's maximized mode for tablets

Maps live traffic updates in 7 new regions, expanded coverage for 19 more

Google Policy/Privacy/Politics

Google's H.264 license undermines Motorola patent case, says Microsoft

How Steve Jobs changed Google Plus

More transparency into govt requests

US leads world in govt removal requests to Google

Energy efficiency in the Cloud

The Surui Cultural Map

Google completes buyout of Magnolia Broadband patents

More in-flight WiFi with SES satellite deal

Apple, Google using "military-grade spy planes" to make new maps, says senator

Google bars site that converts youtube videos to mp3s

Street View Hawaii

Gmail is (finally) "gmail.com" in Germany

Oracle accepts $0 in damages from Google, moves toward appeal

Supporting language preservation

Google patents p2p location finding

Google Maps reinvented as employee tracker

Fueling great nonprofits with technology

--Adam

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Adam Nave, CISSP
Linux/Unix Systems Administrator
Macalester College



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