Google Donates $850,000 to Restore Bletchley Park Google has donated £550,000 ($850,000) to restoreBletchley Park, the famous WWII era site where theGerman Enigma codewas cracked and most of modern cryptography and computing theory was developed. The donation will go towards repairs of the site which is, in some of its structures, in danger of collapse. Most of the allied code breaking effort during WWII was concentrated in Bletchley Park, and the site also houses theNationalMuseumofComputing, which is dedicated to the contributions to computing made by the men and women at Bletchley Park both during and after the war....

Second-generation Apple TV review Expert’s Rating Our Verdict A sophisticated piece of kit that’s let down by poor search and limited remotecontrol functions. Used with an iPad or iPhone, it becomes a delight to use. You’ll exhaust its movie library fast, though. Applehas had a few stabs at a TV box that lets you get at your iTunes content (by our reckoning, this ‘second-generation’ device is its third or fourth attempt)....

Mobile malware exaggerated by “charlatan” vendors Security vendors are behaving like “charlatans and scammers” by peddling antivirus apps to protect consumers from smartphone malware, Google’s open source champion Chris DiBona has said in an uncompromising attack on the industry. In recent weeks, antivirus vendors including Kaspersky Lab, McAfee and even infrastructure companies Juniper Networks and IBM, have highlighted the claimed menace posed by malware on Android in particular, which might explain the Google engineer’s feistiness....

Google Nexus S to get Ice Cream Sandwich ‘within weeks’ Google has revealed it will offer Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of its Android mobile platform, to owners of its Nexus S smartphone “within weeks”. Google Android 4.0 was unveiled by the search engine last week, at the same time as the latest in its range of branded smartphones – the Galaxy Nexus – and features a redesigned user interface with improved multi-tasking, a Face Unlock function which uses facial recognition to unlock the handset and support for near-field communications that among other things allow smartphone owners to pay for goods and services by simply tapping their device on a special pad, and even share web pages and apps by tapping two smartphones running the OS together....

Unauthorised access of social networking profiles surge The number of social networking profiles that been accessed without permission in on the rise, says Capital One. According to research conducted by the credit card provider to coincide withNational Identity Fraud Preventionweek 60 million social networking profiles have been subject to unauthorised access in the last year, that’s the equivalent of 1.9 every second. Capital One has dubbed the phenomenon ‘smugging’ (social media mugging)....