Tech
Week in review: December 10, 2011
Fourteen stories you may have missed.
- Android bloatware results in serious security flaws Bloatware installed by the handset manufacturers is making Android insecure.
- Does Google need Mozilla? Does Google need to hand over millions of dollars to Mozilla in order to be Firefox’s default search engine?
- Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for December 2011 A must-read for those who build or repair PCs.
- Can Microsoft beat Apple and Google and successfully 'appify' the TV? According to Microsoft, this new dashboard is where ‘a new era in entertainment begins.’
- Are Windows 8 tablets already irrelevant? Why do people what Windows on a tablet unless it’s to be able to run existing Windows applications and connect existing hardware to their tablet?
- Kindle Fire and why 7-inch tablets suck Cramming a traditional webpage onto a 7-inch screen doesn't work.
- Tell me again, why does Apple need to make TVs? Oh, and of course it will be a custom A6 CPU …
- Two-thirds of 'lost and found' USB flash drives infected with malware Trust no one … and nothing!
- Six Android issues that Google doesn't want to address Size (of the market share) isn’t everything.
- Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' running on an Amazon Kindle Fire It’s getting there - The Kindle Fire would make a really good $200 Android ICS tablet.
- My top iOS apps for iPhone and iPad My seven favorite iOS apps of 2011.
- Microsoft can remove apps and data from Windows 8 devices It might sound both harsh and draconian, but it’s a necessary feature of a modern app store.
- 2011: The year of the Android OS Android is, without a doubt, the most successful Linux distro out there. And it’s only going to go from strength to strength come 2012.
- Report finds Firefox security lacking Firefox lags behind Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browsers in several key areas.