Posts Tagged ‘ThirdParty’
Microsoft issuing takedown notices for third-party Windows Phone Facebook apps
Author: Natalie Wood
Windows Phone developers who have created third-party Facebook apps are receiving takedown notices from Microsoft, reports Windows Phone Central. The issue is trademark infringement, and Facebook has sent a letter to Microsoft detailing 41 different apps that it believes infringes on one of its various pieces of intellectual property, along with the details on those trademarks. The purpose of the letter is presumably so that Microsoft can issue takedown notices to those developers, which it reportedly has — apparently giving those developers one business day to remove their app from the store.
Although some of the apps are good-faith efforts from third-party developers to create an improved Facebook experience, many more just clutter…
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No Comments »Firefox to follow Safari, start blocking cookies from third-party advertisers
Author: Jon Daniels
Firefox is set to start shutting out cookies from third-party ad networks by default, thanks to a patch sent by Stanford law pupil and on-line personal privacy protestor Jonathan Mayer. The patch is slated for circulation in release 22 of the popular web browser, and mimics the behavior of Apple & rsquo; s Safari, allowing websites that you & rsquo; ve actually gone to (first parties) to set cookies on your system, however blocking cookies from 3rd parties like marketing networks unless they already have one on your machine. Firefox already supports the Do Not Track header, which has the effect of asking advertisers not to track your searching around the web, but Mayer & rsquo; s patch goes an action further, including a default setting that declines undesirable third-party cookies …
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No Comments »Google adds CardDAV support to contacts for easier syncing with iOS and other third-party devices
Author: Alexander McQueen
The marvelous folks from Mountain View never ever seem to take a break from tackling devices to help make virtually every person’s life much easier– even if a few of these folks occur to be on the other side. Today, Google announced it was including CardDAV to the list of open process it currently supports to access Gmail and Calendar from mobile apps and devices alike, noting that with the recent adaptation it’ll be simpler for third-party customers– such as iOS– to access and sync with Google Contacts. Better yet, the business posted a full set of instructions on how individuals can easily do just that, which you will certainly find at the source link below.
Filed under: Net, SoftwareGoogle adds CardDAV support to contacts for much easier syncing with iOS and additional third-party devices initially appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink|Google|Email this|Comments
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No Comments »Microsoft’s chief liaison with third-party manufacturers leaves position
Author: Jon Daniels
Steven Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President and head of Microsoft’s OEM division, is leaving his position for a senior role in the company. Guggenheimer has been in charge of liaisons between Microsoft and its OEM partners for many years, and leaves just as the company has announced its first home-grown computer, the Surface. There have been reports that OEMs feel uneasy about Microsoft competing with them in the hardware market, and Acer founder Stan Shih has been quoted as saying Surface is an only an effort to encourage manufacturers to produce Windows 8 and RT tablets. So far, Asus has been the only third-party manufacturer to announce a retail-bound Windows RT tablet, and HP recently announced it would not release a Windows RT…
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Exclusive: Microsoft Office 15 will include third-party ‘Agaves’ web extensions
Author: Jack Schmidt
Microsoft is planning to allow developers to create “Agaves” web extensions to bring third-party functionality to Office clients, according to sources with knowledge of its Office 15 plans. Web developers will be able to create an area within an Office application that lets webpages interact with documents and augment content with extra features. The Agaves will be provided through Microsoft’s Office Marketplace, or from private stand-alone Agaves at organizations.
Office 15, Microsoft’s next-generation of its Office productivity suite, will support the new web extensions throughout a number of its core client apps. Excel 15, Word 15, Outlook 15, and Project Professional 15 will all support Agaves, and Microsoft will also allow Agaves to…
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Tamron and Kenko bring third-party glass to the Micro Four Thirds bash
Author: Gabe Hall
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Tamron and Kenko bring third-party glass to the Micro Four Thirds bash originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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SiriProxy enables voice control of third-party apps (video)
Author: Gabe Hall
If you’ll rewind your mind in time to earlier this week, you might remember a clever proxy server from @plamoni that enabled Siri’s control of a thermostat through spoken commands. Now, the same bit of engineering has been exploited to enable voice control of third-party applications. In this example, FastPdfKit Reader is manipulated by various commands with SiriProxy acting in the middle. A plugin is used to add new commands to the ones recognized by Siri, and finally, the proxy then sends the final commands to the app. Those hoping to get hacking will find a complete list of instructions from the source link below. For everyone else, you’ll find the true magic after the break.
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SiriProxy enables voice control of third-party apps (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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PSA: Windows Phone 7′s third-party apps easy to decompile, native code hooks exposed
Author: Tristan Richards
We suspect most developers have gathered this since MIX earlier this year — many of them have been dealing with variations of the problem since the genesis of Microsoft’s .NET Framework — but we thought we’d throw out a note that word’s getting around on how easy it is to tear apart applications downloaded from the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, gain access to their resources, and get a look at their inner workings. Microsoft has been encouraging developers on the desktop to make this tough by using code obfuscation tools — Dotfuscator, specifically — for many years, but Dotfuscator’s developer hasn’t yet released a version specifically for WP7, so it’s made things tough to secure. In other words: business as usual, and “business as usual” isn’t as airtight as your average white-hat dev would like.
On a happier note, an enterprising coder by the name of Chris Walsh has fleshed out some hooks into unmanaged (read: native) Windows Phone 7 services. It’s not what we’d call a “jailbreak” — you’re not altering the security settings of the device in any way — you’re just taking advantage of undocumented services Microsoft has in place, though it’s still very cool. Walsh promises some tutorials on hooking into cool stuff like file system and registry access soon, but he notes that apps using these hooks are still running as managed tasks, meaning they can be slapped around by the kernel (killed, suspended, and so on) just as any other WP7 app can — and we also doubt you’d be able to get Marketplace approval using this stuff.
PSA: Windows Phone 7′s third-party apps easy to decompile, native code hooks exposed originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Developers: Android will need third-party tools for enterprise
Author: Antonio Pierce
Developers: Android will need third-party tools for enterprise
Google has added many useful features in Android version 2.2, but it isn’t enough to satisfy all enterprises Google alone will not turn Android into an enterprise-ready OS, instead it will be up to third parties to add necessary features for businesses, according to Android Developer Challenge winners Konrad Hübner and Henning Böger.
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£180 Next Android tablet gets dire review: 30min battery, indecently slow
Can a cheap Android tablet keep up with, say, Apple’s iPad? Or is it going to struggle even keeping up with a large-screen Android smartphone? That certainly seems to be the case with UK retailer Next’s “bargain†£180 ($ 284) 10-inch slate, spotted last week . PDA-247 splashed out on the tablet, and then promptly wished they hadn’t. As well as being flimsily constructed it’s incredibly slow, the …
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Hacker claims third-party iPhone apps can freely transmit UDID, pose serious threat to privacy
Author: Dave Adams
When Apple addressed a congressional inquiry on privacy in July, the company claimed that it couldn’t actually track a particular iPhone in real time, as its transactions were anonymous and thoroughly randomized. Bucknell University network admin Eric Smith, however, theorizes that third-party application developers and advertisers may not have the same qualms, and could be linking your device to your name (and even your location) whenever they transmit data. Smith, a two-time DefCon wardriving champ, studied 57 top applications in the iTunes App Store to see what they sent out, and discovered that some fired off the iPhone’s UDID and personal details in plaintext (where they can ostensibly be intercepted), including those for Amazon, Chase Bank, Target and Sam’s Club, though a few were secured with SSL. Though UDIDs are routinely used by apps to store personal data and combat piracy, what Smith fears is that a database could be set up linking these UDIDs to GPS coordinates or GeoIP, giving nefarious individuals or organizations knowledge of where you are.
It’s a scary idea, but before you direct hate Apple’s way, it’s important to note that Cupertino’s not necessarily the one to blame. iOS is arguably the best at requiring users to opt-in to apps that perform GPS tracking; transmitting the UDID and account information together publicly is strictly against the rules; and we’d like to think that if users provide their personal information to an application developer in the first place, they’d understand what they’re doing. Of course, not all users monitor those things closely, and plaintext transmission of personal details is obviously a big no-no.
Smith’s piece opens and closes on the idea that Apple’s UDID is like the unique identifier of Intel’s Pentium III processor, which generated privacy concerns around the turn of the century, and we wonder if ths story might play out the same way — following government inquiries, Intel offered a software utility that let individuals manually disable their chip’s unique ID, and removed it from future CPUs.
Hacker claims third-party iPhone apps can freely transmit UDID, pose serious threat to privacy originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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