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Box may not have the level of popularity that Dropbox has been able to achieve, but they are sure trying to get people’s attention. We know that Box has been offering free 50 GB of storage to owners of select brands, but not all of us have been able to (officially) take advantage of this until today. Box has just updated its Android application, and every user that downloads the app gets 50 GB of free cloud storage! Oh, and some added features and improvements to the app itself.

Enhancements include the ability to view and comment files, invite your friends to collaborate in them, a better uploader, and a cool-looking improved UI  complete with Android 4.0 support. I have to say that the UI looks much nicer than the previous version, a much needed update for the cloud storage service.

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As discussed in the just released Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes, Adobe has been working closely with Google to develop a single modern API for hosting plugins within the browser (one which could replace the current Netscape plugin API being used by the Flash Player). The PPAPI, code-named “Pepper” aims to provide a layer between the plugin and browser that abstracts away differences between browser and operating system implementations.
Because of this work, Adobe has been able to partner with Google in providing a “Pepper” implementation of Flash Player for all x86/64 platforms supported by the Google Chrome browser. Google will begin distributing this new Pepper-based Flash Player as part of Chrome on all platforms, including Linux, later this year.
For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the “Pepper” API as part of the Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe. Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release.
Flash Player will continue to support browsers using non-”Pepper” plugin APIs on platforms other than Linux.

Adobe has the details HERE!

The diversity of hardware powered by Android is continuing to grow, with no signs of slowing down. Having started off as a smartphone OS, Android now finds itself used on tablets, netbooks/notebooks, e-readers, media players, in-car computing systems and even – as Google’s Eric Schmidt reminded the world just a few weeks ago at CES – in refrigerators.

A new form factor will soon join the Android family, according to Google employees who spoke with The New York Times this week; they revealed that Google is developing a pair of glasses, powered by Android, and with an integrated heads-up display that allows the user to view the interface and browse content, hands-free.

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Electronic Arts has pulled Battlefield 3: Aftershock from the App Store.

Released earlier this month, Battlefield 3: Aftershock was a free download sponsored by military film Act of Valor. The multiplayer-only release featured one map and four weapons. The game received an average rating of 2.5 stars from customers, including complaints about its controls, an inability to connect to multiplayer matches and other issues.

After an influx of negative reviews, EA has removed the game and released the following statement:

"EA Mobile is committed to delivering mobile entertainment experiences that are on par with the content and quality users have come toexpect from their favorite EA gaming brands. To this end, we have decided to remove Battlefield 3: Aftershock from the App Store and are currently re-evaluating the app in response to the consumer feedback we've received. We thank all the fans who have downloaded the game to date."

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Want a free password for one of the world's most popular adult websites?

YouPorn, one of the world's most popular porn video websites and one of the top 100 websites of any kind in the world, appears to have been caught with its pants down - after a list of many of its users' email addresses, passwords and dates of birth were left exposed on a public-facing server.

According to security blogger Anders Nilsson, the credentials of well over a million YouPorn users were publicly accessible.

Unlike the recent Brazzers porn site hack, however, sloppy practices are being blamed for the YouPorn incident, with debug data about users seemingly being stored in a public fashion since 2007.

Read the full report HERE!

Back in November, Apple told developers of apps for the Mac App Store that they had until March 1st to "sandbox" their apps. Now the company has decided to give those developers a few more months to make their apps sandbox ready.

In a post on Apple's developer web site it states:

We have extended the deadline for sandboxing your apps on the Mac App Store from March 1st to June 1st to provide you with enough time to take advantage of new sandboxing entitlements available in OS X 10.7.3 and new APIs in Xcode 4.3

For those of you who may not be aware of what "sandboxing" is, Apple is basically asking Mac App Store developers to limit how their apps interact with other systems and data. In theory, this will help prevent the Mac App Store from getting hit with malware and other software threats. However, it also means that app developers won't have the freedom to link up to other applications and systems.

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HP is getting ready for Windows 8 and at the moment its looking like the PC maker will be selling products that will use Microsoft's OS before the end of the year. In its regular quarterly financial conference call today with analysts (you can listen to the repeat on HP's web site) company CEO Meg Whitman said that HP "will be well positioned on Windows 8 x86 by the holidays."

She added later that "we're rooting for a fantastic Windows 8 product that's out on time for holiday." That would seem to suggest at least a little bit of doubt about the Windows 8 launch date but since Whitman was talking with financial analysts it's perhaps in her and HP's best business interest to have a little back door just in case Microsoft decides to change its Windows 8 launch window.

Neowin has the details HERE!

Symantec advised users of its compromised pcAnywhere software to disable the remote-access tool about a month ago, but a security firm said this week that as many as 200,000 computers out in the wild may still be exposed to hijacking by hackers, including some 5,000 systems used to collect and process credit card data.

Symantec first advised pcAnywhere users to uninstall the software in late January after an anonymous party published the software's 2006 source code on the Internet. The security software vendor then issued patches for versions 12.0, 12.1 and 12.5 of the product, which enables users to remotely access their PCs from other computers and devices.

The security software vendor said at the time that customers who patched their software with those updates should be protected from possible attacks stemming from the hackers' access to the source code, which security experts warned could include remote commandeering of vulnerable computers.

PC Mag has the details HERE!

You just got the latest and greatest smartphone--one with a gigantic display and a dual-core processor. For three months, you're the happiest geek in town. Then an almost identical phone comes out, for the same price, but with a quadcore processor and an even bigger display. Oh, and it's a 4G LTE phone. Now, your 4G HSPA+ phone on the same network feels like a piece of garbage. And you're stuck with it for nearly two years--and maybe even longer because now you're afraid of falling into the same upgrade trap. Sound familiar?

Last year, new phones seemed to be coming out every week. Perhaps the worst case of upgrade insanity involved the Motorola Droid Razr. Back in November, it was one of the hottest phones on Verizon. But it had one big issue: battery life. Over 3G and Wi-Fi, the battery lasted a reasonable amount of time. But over 4G, games killed the battery; and during my hands-on testing, when I streamed a video clip longer than 5 minutes, I saw significant loss of battery life.

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