Google Wallet, a lime and sand

The market for mobile payment is one of the sweet tooth that is on the table, and Google Wallet is not giving enough to nudge it into the mouth. In fact the first elbow have it’s own Google: Google co-founder has passed Wallet Square .

But you know: a lime and sand, or in this case backwards. This morning Google announced the purchase of TxVia, a technology company that has managed electronic payments more than 100 million accounts.

Rob von Behren tab by Square: Square and NFC?

It is the first case of brain drain from Google to Square, Rob von Behren however was one of the engineers who founded Google Wallet. We do not know the reason for his decision, but we can guess how I could help out in the young company of Jack Dorsey: his experience with NFC.

Google Wallet works with NFC, Square no. Assuming that the NFC will become a mobile standard in the near future, it is easy to understand that will be more comfortable and safer than swiping a credit card into a reader or made ​​payments sent with an application.

Google has bought TxVia: technology and experience

After a year working with them, Google has bought TxVia. This is a company that develops cutting edge technology since 2008 electronic payment and has managed more than 100 million accounts.

We assume that technology will be integrated into Google TxVia Wallet to improve service and make it more competitive. Google Wallet not only competing against Square, Paypal, Apple, Amazon, banks and finance companies also want their piece of the pie.

Chrome OS is still alive, seeking support for the ARM architecture

Chrome OS has started on the wrong foot, there is no other way to say. Post-PC era has been caught off guard by Google’s operating system based on the Chrome browser, with a market that is increasingly more interested in Android tablets and even on the same laptop in the near future. But efforts to get afloat Chrome OS are from Mountain View: it seems that a future version of the system can be compatible with ARM architectures.

So far Chrome OS has been present on laptops with Intel Atom, as we saw from London when they presented the Samsung Chromebook to the public. However, a product code-named Daisy has begun to be mentioned in the developer version of Chrome OS, and carries a Samsung Exynos 5250 processor based on ARM Cortex-A15 of 32 nanometers. Would have a frequency of 2 GHz, and consume less energy than a chip ARM Cortex-A9.

And besides that we have more devices with codenames the less curious … Slumpy, Stumpy and Newton. We know nothing about their characteristics, but at least we confirm that Google has not thrown in the towel with Chrome OS preparing interesting news about it. Perhaps we know more details in the next Google I / O , held in San Francisco in late June.

Google Chrome: Teenager finds three 0-day vulnerabilities

A teenager who wanted to appear only under the nickname “Pinkie Pie” in appearance, since his employer is not authorized to participate in the competition started by Google Pwnium hacker could crack the Chrome browser successfully.

To this end, the hackers took advantage of three previously unknown vulnerabilities in the browser from Google, for which no patch is yet available. Since “Pinkie Pie” also succeeded in breaking out of the built-in sandbox, he qualified for a prize money totaling $ 60,000. Overall, he worked one and a half weeks at the exploit.

Chrome Hack by Pinkie Pie

The vulnerability itself is regarded as extremely critical, as would be sufficient to visit a malicious Web page according to this exploit successfully. The creators of Google have already responded to this issue and confirmed that a team will deal with the problem solution. In this respect soon with another update for Chrome to be expected.

Accurate information about the vulnerabilities are not known so far, reported the online portal ‘ Wired ‘. In a known manner, the U.S. Internet companies will only speak to this issue when the update was circulated.

So far, the unnamed hacker has its own claims to never send information about vulnerabilities in Google or other companies. However, some time ago when Google was an application by him in which he drew attention to crack the Chrome browser on Mac OS X successfully. One answer he received it and never used.

Nature Valley View Trail, Street View

I must confess that I’m addicted to Google Street View, and whenever I have time I like to take this opportunity to “commute” to unique places in the world and recorrerlos from my computer is obviously not the same as traveling, but it is an alternative when the economy does not allow more. For those like me deserve Nature Valley View Trail go directly to paragraph favorites.

After two months of kicking the most famous U.S. national parks backpacks loaded with cameras capable of shooting in 360 degrees, the creators of this service we now offer convenient routes emulate. For now, the proposal includes the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Great Smoky Mountains.

The interface of Nature Valley View Trail is very similar to Street View, including recommended routes can be followed even automatically. As I said, you can not compare much less to experience these beautiful landscapes go live, but entertains while together the money to do so.

New version 4.1 of Google Maps available for Android

Google has a new version of its maps software, Google Maps for smartphone with Androidreleased operating system. The new version of the software has the number 4.1 and can be free downloaded from the Android Market and on the phone installed are. Who calls the market, the software should also automatically get a list as an available update.

The installation file for Google Maps 4.1 is 3.39 MB in size and contains some improvements. Thus, the user now reached by scrolling with the finger on the touch screen on the individual search results. In addition, within the application can now use multiple Google Accounts. Thus, different identities for services such as Buzz or Latitude can be used.

Latitude, the Google service that is sharing the location of friends and acquaintances if they have released this feature, there is now also available as widget on the home screen of the smartphone. Moreover, now appears on its own location and how exactly this could be determined.