A Stanford researcher discovered that Google was purposefully circumventing the privacy settings in the iPhone's web browser in order to store cookies that track users' movements online. As soon as this was revealed publicly, first in a "Wall Street Journal" report, Google stopped the practice. But the question remains: Why the heck would Google do such a thing in the first place?
more Apple this week settled a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of shipping its iPhone 4 handset with an antenna design so flawed that users could inadvertently kill the wireless signal simply by holding the device.
more Microsoft this week provided new information about how it will integrate its SkyDrive cloud-storage service with Windows 8 (and previous Windows versions), dramatically improving the interoperability between the two. Put simply, SkyDrive should see a huge surge in usage in the next year or two: This already-useful service is about to become indispensable.
more In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Mary Jo Foley, Leo Laporte, and I discuss lingering questions in the wake of Microsoft's WOA revelations, why tech analysts, pundits, and enthusiasts are so often in the dark about Microsoft's plans these days, more Windows 8 news, some Windows Phone "Tango" leaks and rumors, and Office 2010 University Edition.
more A Brazilian tech blog claims that Microsoft will be creating native SkyDrive applications for both Windows and Mac OS X, and burnishing the cloud storage system with paid tiers of up to 100 GB per year.
more This week on What The Tech: Andrew Zarian and Paul Thurrott continue their discussion of Windows on ARM. Will we see WOA laptops? Paul also goes into more detail about Windows 8 and the new Metro interface. How will Metro differ between consumer and enterprise use. Google gets official approval to buy Motorola Mobility. Paul explains what he thinks Google should do with Motorola. Rumors keep flying out about the next gen iPad. Should Apple make a smaller version? Andrew and Paul discuss how new Windows 8 tablets could affect the iPad. How much will Windows 8 tablets cost? And Andrew brings up Apple’s labor issues in China.
more Microsoft confirmed on Friday that a rumored change to the Windows logo for Windows 8 is real, confounding tech enthusiasts, virtually all of whom doubted its authenticity. The new logo, which controversially dispenses with the flag motif Microsoft has long used, is a throwback of sorts to the original Windows logo, Microsoft claims.
more An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including Microsoft's mistaken flagging of Google as a malicious site, a ruling on Microsoft's mobile patent licensing, HP's take on whether Google will close-source Android, more rumors about a smaller iPad, and a lengthy set of flights to Barcelona.
more Apple surprised tech enthusiasts this morning with an announcement about a coming Mac OS X update, dubbed Mountain Lion, that will ship this summer.
more There's been a lot of debate about Windows on ARM, or WOA, and how Microsoft will differentiate this from PC-based versions of Windows. But what if it's really very simple after all? And what if this differentiation actually makes plenty of sense?
more Cisco announced that it would appeal a months-old EU approval of Microsoft's $8.5 billion purchase of Skype.
more Version 2.3 of the free Facebook app for Windows Phone is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace, and if you're using the previous version, you'll want to upgrade immediately: Contrary to the minor version number update, this is a major update that adds some very useful and long-awaited features.
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