Autsch! In light of the recent attacks on Google China and Microsoft’s revelation that an Internet Explorer security flaw served as an impetus in the assault, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security has released a warning to its population: avoid IE. Specifically, the report calls out the latest three versions — 6, 7, and 8 — but let’s face it, those older versions should be avoided on grounds of usability alone. Boy, bet the Bonn-based agency is happy about that Windows 7 web browser ballot screen, eh?

Germany advises its citizens to say ‘nein’ to Internet Explorer originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The long wait is finally over.  After months of application testing and multiple rounds of voting both by the community and a select panel of judges, the winners of the Android Developer Challenge 2 have finally been announced!  Here’s the juice:

Awards

Prizes will be distributed as follows; all prizes are in USD:

For each of the 10 categories:

• 1st prize: $100,000
• 2nd prize: $50,000
• 3rd prize: $25,000

Overall (across all categories)

• 1st prize: $150,000 (meaning the overall winner will receive $250,000)
• 2nd prize: $50,000 (meaning the 2nd prize winner will receive up to $150,000)
• 3rd prize: $25,000 (meaning the 3rd prize winner will receive up to $125,000)

Hit the break to see the rest of the ADC2 winners!

A BIG Congratulations to all of the ADC2 winners and thanks to everyone for voting!  It’s nice to see some of my personal favorites like SweetDreams and WaveSecure on the list, did your favorites make the cut?  Did the judges get it right?  Sound off in the comments and let your voice be heard.

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Confirmed. The rumors about Google’s redesign are true, and you can try it for yourself with a very simple method.

1. Go to Google.com.
2. Once it loads, enter this code into your web browser’s URL address field:

javascript:void(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”);

There shouldn’t be any http://google.com in front of that. Just that code.

3. Hit enter.
4. Reload or open a new Google.com page and you will have access to the new user interface.

It’s fast and sweet, although the changes don’t affect all the available sections. [Thanks Matt Karolian]

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Hey, it may not be from California but at least this KIRF‘s registered with the Vietnamese trademark office (right). Anywho, according to Google’s own machine translation, the subtext of this product reads, “Very long, soft, smooth. Of high vacuum, because you always!” Reflect on that while you pick up the simmering scraps of your mind — work can wait.

[Thanks, DMZ]

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