21st October 2012 Archive

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• Google touts map APIs for enterprise

  Your very own travelling salesman

  Google has announced two new APIs to its Google Maps service, designed to allow enterprises build their own location-enabled applications. The Maps Tracks and Maps Geolocation APIs were announced last Wednesday at Google’s Enterprise blog. Tracking your fleet: Google's Maps Tracks API gives devs route and territory …

  Networks 21 Oct 21:47

• Android apps get SSL wrong, expose personal data

  Researchers find 1,000 insecure apps, pinch credit card and other data

  More than 1,000 out of a sample of 13,000 Android applications analysed by German researchers contained serious flaws in their SSL implementations. In this paper (PDF), the researchers from Leibniz University in Hannover and Philipps University of Marburg found that 17 percent of the SSL-using apps in their sample suffered …

  Security 21 Oct 22:05

• Fish skin points to better LEDs

  Scaly secret to camouflage, and that's no red herring

  A trick of the light evolved by silvery fish to avoid predators could help improve optical devices like LEDs, according to a study in Nature Photonics. While polarisation has many applications in photonics, non-polarising devices are also important. The research – abstract here – took a look at how fish such as sardines and …

  Science 21 Oct 23:32

• Facebook won't pull unmarked police plates page

  'Not every criminal is a moron' say cops

  Facebook has once again become a source of antipodean controversy after the social network reportedly declined to remove a page listing the number plates of unmarked police cars in the Australian State of Victoria. The "VIC Undercover Police Cars" page and "Victorian Police Booze/Drugs/Unmarked cars locations" pages both …

  Policy 21 Oct 23:58