This article titled “The Technology Newsbucket: Android gets bloaty, and a guide to London’s blue plaques” was written by Josh Halliday, for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 28th July 2010 06.00 UTC

A quick burst of 13 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team

Bloatware creeps into Android phones >> Ars Technica
This is about the US – though we’ve spied some on UK ones already. What’s the worst example?

PlaqueGuide London >> PlaqueGuide
Need to find a blue plaque (you know, the places where famous people lived or did things?) here you go. Founder David Coughlan is a GeoVation finalist from the GeoVation awards sponsored by the Ordnance Survey.


Photo by AndyRob on Flickr. Some rights reserved

Why Secunia’s vulnerability report highlights Apple over Microsoft >> AppleInsider
“Secunia’s vulnerability counts reset when Microsoft changes the name of its product, but continue to accumulate for Apple because the company hasn’t rebranded Mac OS X since 2003, when Secunia began keeping track. Browsing Secunia’s database, it appears Mac OS X has suffered from hundreds of vulnerabilities while Microsoft’s Windows has racked up far fewer, but that’s only because Microsoft’s regular rebranding efforts reset Secunia’s clocks.” Ah. Plus it doesn’t distinguish between really dangerous vulnerabilities and trivial ones. Will this stop people writing about Secunia?

Online Communities: mapping the web’s social networks (note: old) >> xkcd
You can tell roughly how old it is by comparing the sizes of Facebook and MySpace.

Apple Magic Trackpad official, shipping now for >> Engadget
We knew it was coming, so here it is. Officially.

Chatroulette To Log IP Addresses, Take Screenshots >> Slashdot

Your mobile app is spying on you >> VentureBeat

Are Location-Based Services All Hype? >> ReadWriteWeb

Bing Is The Biggest Loser In Yahoo Japan’s New Google Deal >> Business Insider

Google Maps for Android updated to 4.4, adds dedicated ‘Places’ for searching nearby >> Engadget

Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement >> Slashdot

Yahoo: Pageviews Aren’t As Low As ComScore Said >> paidContent

Digg Vs. Reddit: The Infographic >> TechCrunch

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• This article was amended on 28 July 2010. The original said Plaqueguide was ‘an implementation of one of the ideas from the showusabetterway.com competition started by Tom Watson MP.’ This has been corrected.

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