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Gmail Adds OAuth support

Gmail has added OAuth support, which is a good thing. But will it enable a new breed of third party apps?

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HTTP Basic in Mobile Apps

HTTP Basic in Mobile Apps

Basic Auth vulnerability is very common in mobile applications, not just Foursquare.

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Android for Men?

Some recent AdMob activity has shown that Android users are predominantly men. This has of course started a whole lot of interesting conversation about the intelligence of Android users vs. iPhone users and men vs. women (“woman are better with math which is why they use iPhone where the most apps are!”).
But when you look [...]

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Where Palm went wrong

A colleague recently asked me if we should plan to build a WebOS version of our new application, which we’re currently building for iPhone and Android. My answer, sadly, is no. I say sadly, because I own a Palm Pre and I was even part of the early access developer program. I remember being incredibly excited [...]

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