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Google to hire in-house Android OS developers

Google is recruiting developers to work in-house on mobile apps for its Android operating system, a report says, as the web giant continues its challenge to Apple’s iOS and the popular devices that run on it.

Benjamin Ling, a Google product-management director, has been supervising an attempt to coax software engineers, user-interface specialists and product managers into the Google Android OS’s fold, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.

The newspaper added that some current Google workers have shifted their positions at the company to join the app project, which will be spread across Google’s global offices and cover everything from Angry Birds-like games to Foursquare-like check-in apps. The resulting apps will probably be free, with ads included to generate revenue, the report said.

[Thanks: http://www.zdnet.co.uk]

Can K9 keep porn off your kid’s iPad or iPhone?

If the schools that my kids attend are anything to go by, it seems that high on Santa’s list this Xmas just gone was an iTouch, iPhone or iPad depending how well off the parents were. That’s understandable, they are just as attractive as gadgets for kids as they are to adults.

But along with the never ending supply of free games, educational apps and the like comes the small problem of unfettered access to the Internet and all that brings with it. While adults may well have the family PC protected by parental control software to filter unsuitable content from their kids screens, the same is unlikely to be the case with a smartphone or tablet device. So how can parents keep porn, and other unsuitable online content, off the iPhone and iPad? One solution is provided by the same company, Blue Coat, that has been supplying a free and hugely popular desktop parental control solution for some years now in the form of K9 Web Protection.

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