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“Google’s new product will be widely used.” -Google

3 days ago on Will Google Glass create information heroes or new-wave Bluetooth dorks? 3 replies 38 recommends

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They can’t monitor your calls, they can monitor your location if you on location services on Android (I always keep it off), they can monitor what sites you go on if you don’t have Ghostery or something similar installed or at the very least you haven’t turned on the do not track option with your browser.

A lot of Microsoft’s stuff is FUD. Chrome itself does nothing to track you. AdSense, Analytics, and Google+ buttons, however, do track you no matter what browser you’re using. It’s easy enough to block trackers but most people don’t know that. And of course Bing tracks the sites you go on from them and Bing’s ad system tracks just like Google’s too.

3 days ago on Leaked Scroogled video sees Microsoft parody Google's Chrome ad 1 reply 2 recommends

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This is true, but it’s to Apple’s own detriment.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 recommend

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It’ll be cross platform in just a month or so.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply

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Yes but there’s plenty of reason to move to BBM or at the very least try it.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply

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I agree they should have done it earlier but I don’t think it’s too late. BBM will still pick up traction, especially since it’s free and offers features competition such as WhatsApp doesn’t.

I don’t think BB was confident enough to take a USP from BB hardware until BB10 was ready, that’s why it took so long. And fair enough, legacy devices are crap and needed all the help they could get. But BB10 is a massive improvement and doesn’t need BBM to sell.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply 2 recommends

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Maybe I just don’t happen to know anyone who uses it then.

shrug

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply

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I pay £25 a month for 2,000 minutes, 5,000 texts, and unlimited data. A bit pricey, but for that I also get unlimited tethering. And it really is unlimited, as I’ve said before on here a month or two ago I use around 50-70GB of data in an average month. And when the LTE network comes this year I’ll get access to it automatically without paying any extra. Can’t wait.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 2 replies 1 recommend

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£5 gives you just unlimited texts and nothing else on giffgaff if that’s all you want.

Oh I forgot Americans pay to receive texts too. Let me just take a second to laugh.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 4 replies 16 recommends

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Only because BBM wasn’t previously available as a cross-platform client. BBM is superior to WhatsApp for reasons I explained in the parent comment.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 3 replies 1 recommend

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The only truly universal standard is SMS. But since we’ve deemed that not good enough, I think BBM is the best “upgrade” from SMS, as it were.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 2 replies 2 recommends

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The platforms the vast majority of the smartphone owning market actually use is what I meant.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 3 replies 4 recommends

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If you want private encrypted messaging on your computer (once Google inevitably cut off XMPP support) install Cryptocat. You don’t have to use the exact same protocol on your phone as you do on your computer to chat to people.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply