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Google confirms removal of malicious Android apps

NEWS

After several days of silence on the issue, Google has confirmed it removed several malicious apps from its Android Market earlier this week and said it would remove the apps from users' devices as well.

Google confirmed it removed
 malicious apps from the Android Market.Photo credit: Bonnie Cha/CNET News

Only devices running an Android version earlier than version 2.2.2 were susceptible to the rogue apps, which took advantage of known vulnerabilities, the company reported late on Saturday in the Google Mobile blog. The company believes the only information accessed by the apps were the unique codes used to identify the the specific device and the version of Android that it was running.

Google identified 58 malicious apps and removed them on Tuesday, but not before they were downloaded to about 260,000 devices. Google said it would use a kill switch to remotely remove the apps from users' devices and push an Android security update to affected users to repair the damage done by the apps. Affected users can expect to receive an email from Android Market support explaining the action, Google said.

Google removes Grooveshark app from Android Market

NEWS

Google has removed Grooveshark's music app from the Android Market, a move that comes after some of the top music labels have accused the service of violating copyright law, sources said.

Google has removed the Grooveshark music app from the Android Market. Photo credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET News

"We remove apps from Android Market that violate our policies," a Google spokesman said in response to questions from ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News. He did not specify what violations Grooveshark may have committed or whether Google had been pressured by the music industry to remove the app.

Grooveshark, based in Gainesville, Florida, is a service that offers free music by enabling users to post their own tracks to the site and then share them with other users. The service, which boasts more than six million songs, was accused by EMI in a lawsuit of copyright violations, a case that was settled in 2009 when Grooveshark agreed to licence the label's catalog.

For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Google boots Grooveshark from Android Market on CNET News.

Google's Cloud Connect to save MS Office work automatically

NEW DELHI: Each time you open a new Word file in Microsoft Word, from now on, there won't be any need to save your work every few seconds, for fear of losing all your data with a power cut or a computer hang. Google's newly launched Cloud Connect toolbar for Microsoft apps, sits inside a MS Word, Excel, or Powerpoint application.

Available for free download, the toolbar enables users to directly save their MS Office work into Google's server farms located all over the world, from any device. Google's strategy to embed its apps inside MS Office suite, which forms almost a third of its $62 billion annual sales will be a direct hit into Microsoft's prime bread source after Windows, if successful.

Once logged in to a Google account, the toolbar automatically keeps saving any document being currently worked upon on to a Google server farm. The catch is that your PC should once in a while be connected to the internet, to get it synced with the cloud.

"We will keep documents on the cloud till eternity for a user, as long as his or her Google account is active," Shan Sinha, Product Manager, Google Apps told ET from Google's Mountain View headquarters. Won't saving a large amount of private documents of users, create legal issues for Google? "All documents are stored in an encrypted fashion, and only people with the document's weblink would be allowed to view or edit," he says.

The Cloud Connect initiative by Google is a step ahead of its Docs offering, which failed to pick up enthusiasm in many markets, as people are still hooked on to MS Office applications. Microsoft holds almost 90% market share in Office applications. The advantadge Cloud Connect toolbar offers users is that, once synced, all MS Office data sitting in a home or office PC, can be accessed from anywhere in the world through iPads, smartphones or PCs.

" It's a conversion strategy, get people hooked on the capability so that they move completely to Google Apps and stop paying for two licenses (one Microsoft, one Google)," says Forrester analyst TJ Keitt.

Microsoft's Office applications generates a Google weblink for each document saved on Google's servers, once embedded with a toolbar. For groups, wanting to share work, Cloud Connect offers collaborative editing. All revisions by each user of the document is saved.

"Every 5 seconds, someone in the world is downloading a cloud connect toolbar, since it got launched on Feb 25th, this year," says Mr Sinha. "There is no need for enterprises now to install costly Microsoft Office upgrades. They can directly work and store on the cloud," he adds.

Google's strategy behind launching a Cloud initiative for MS Office, is a direct challenge to Microsoft, and its supremacy in the world of Office documents, which none have been able to challenge as yet. Open Office, Neo Office, IBM Lotus Symphony have not been able to succeed in the market despite being free.

"We also have our Office Live service on the cloud much before than Google's offerings," says James Utzschneider, General Manager for Strategy in Microsoft's Sales, Marketing, and Services Group at Redmond. He defends the desktop computing model as well. "A large number of PC users in the world are unconnected. Though cloud is becoming a phenomenon, a large number of users will be desktop based." Mr Utzschneider leads a team responsible for Microsoft's worldwide marketing efforts around open source and emerging technologies.

Google World Number Brand, Tata India's Number one Brand: Brand Finance

Google tops in Brand Value and Tata in top 50 , according to the 2011 BrandFinance® Global 500. The BrandFinance® Global 500 is the world’s most comprehensive brand value league table, ranking the most valuable brands across all major markets

• Google is the most valuable brand in the world ($44.3bn), edging Microsoft ($42.8bn) into second place
• Coca-Cola drops out of the top ten for the first time ($25.8bn)
• BP suffered a $3.4bn loss and falls 53 places
• Facebook enters the table in 285th place with a brand value of $3.7bn
• The US continues to dominate the index; American brands constitute 13 of the top 20 and 26 from the top 500

Rise of the machines

Although the top tier of the BrandFinance® Global 500 contains many household names brands that have existed for decades – IBM, Bank of America, HSBC – the world’s increasing dependence on the internet is reflected by Google’s position at no.1.

Five of the top ten largest growers are technology-related companies, reinforcing the commercial importance of embracing technological innovation to give a seamless, value-enhancing brand experience for customers and consumers. ‘Don’t be evil’

Google’s dominance of the search engine sector means it tops the 2011 table. The company has repeatedly undertaken ventures that are comparatively un-commercial but have a positive impact on its brand rating (AAA+) which is the highest in the table. These actions include developing services help rescue efforts following the natural disasters in New Zealand and Japan and its growing not-for- profit arm.

Apple’s success continues as it moves up twelve places, supported by innovative design, a very loyal consumer base and well-executed marketing activities.

However, Coca Cola has dropped out of the top ten for the first time. This is underpinned by the consumer trend in developed markets to move towards healthier, non-carbonated drinks.

Walmart was one of the few brands to actually increase its brand value during the banking crisis due to its well defined, value-oriented proposition. Its value has dropped slightly but, due to its overall size, its marginal loss (12%) means it also becomes one of the largest losers for 2011.

BP suffered a torrid time in 2010 although, according to a Brand Finance study in August 2010, the brand value had dropped as low as $4.7bn. It has now rebounded to $8.8bn but is facing further problems relating to its partnership with Rosneft.

Nokia suffered the largest fall in brand value – $9.9bn. The company has struggled in the smartphone market, a victim of Apple’s success, although the partnership with Microsoft may help to revive their fortunes.

Facebook enters the BrandFinance® Global 500 for the first time with a brand value of $3.7bn. Although monetisation of the world’s largest social networking site remains contentious and its product diversification strategy remains relatively opaque, there is little doubt concerning the brand’s huge popularity, its effectiveness in entering new markets and stratospheric levels of consumer usage.

The India story looks to be heading north, with Indian brands's contribution to the global league table increasing by as much as 26% over last year. It is also the first time that as many as nine Indian companies are featured on the list, adding $46.6 billion to the global intangible value.

Reliance (RIL) 83 positions (133) with a brand value of $6.99 billion.

Indian Oil, Bharti Airtel, and Wipro Technologies, at ranks 232, 282 and 474, respectively.

Only Tata, State Bank of India and Infosys have bettered their rankings over those of last year to feature at positions 50, 171, and 378, respectively.

On the other hand, Reliance, Bharat Petroleum and ICICI Bank have seen a fall in rankings and are featured at positions 133, 347, and 442, respectively.