Anyone who knows how to use Wireshark could potentially steal your login information. The screenshot below shows the credentials of a Picasa account being openly visible inside of packet obtained through Wireshark.

While the Android 2.3.4 fixes most of the security issues, it’s still not 100% secure. Your best bet is to not connect automatically to an unsecured network when it’s in range.  Additionally you could also disable the automatic synchronization from some of the website we’ve listed before until a full patch is released.

You may also want to inform others of this security issue since not everyone updates their phones frequently enough.

In simple terms, here’s how the process of being social works with Bing

1. People Share and Like content
2. Content Goes to Facebook and Twitter
3. Public Information Comes to Bing, real time
4. Content Processing and Indexing
5. Annotation
6. User Experience

Bing recommends doing some of the following things to help enhance your Bing social search results, many of which will also help your organic rankings as well:

• Have unique and quality content
• Get trustworthy sites to link to yours
• Be popular.  Get links from trusted sites; the more the merrier, especially from higher quality sites
• Provide fresh content
• Make it easy to Share and Like content on your website
• Include links to other, quality sources in your updates
• Be prepared to change things around, quickly
• Don’t spam people for Like’s, try and get quality Like’s, instead of ones from “Like Farms”
• Don’t generate Like’s all in a certain period of time, work to increase the your “Likes” steadily overtime

While your friends are a large part of the social aspects of Bing, the collaboration of friends, upon friends, upon friends, help bring more relevant social searches to you, once again helping to provide better results.

What all can you do with this new app?

• Make a list of places you want to visit
• See photos of where you want to go and find more information about them
• Ask friends for their opinion or give them yours
• Check out a map of your travel wishes
• Plan and book your travel plans through Bing Travel

Don’t worry about sharing your travel information with strangers because Bing only your Facebook friends can see your Bing Travel Wish List. Start booking your summer travel destination today with this new and exciting travel app.

The app uses the latest computer vision technology to help you take panoramas easily and quickly. The app allows you to see the panorama in real-time right on your phone.

Panoramas can be uploaded as images to Facebook or you can upload an interactive experience to Photosynth.net, which allows you to host your panoramas for free, otherwise you can store them on your phone.

You also have the ability to connect other users to where you’ve been using Bing Maps. If there is a local business listing in Bing Maps you can upload the panorama right to the business listing so that others can get a full view of the business, whether it’s a museum, restaurant or amusement park.

It’s a pretty unique app, but it’s best to check out the video below to see the app in action:

Video: Microsoft Photosynth App – April 2011

What you can do with Photosynth:

• See your panorama take shape with each picture you take
• Get high-resolution results in all directions with advanced, on-device stitching
• See most panoramas within seconds of taking your last picture
• Zoom, pan, stretch, and view your panorama in landscape or portrait mode
• Save and view your panoramas on your device and view them online at Photosynth.net

People who check-in often will gain incentives for various status levels. The more you check-in to a place the higher your status level will be and thus the bigger the incentive. For example the first American Eagle status level is an AE Bronze Shopper, which will allow you to redeem a 10% off coupon for your entire purchase. Going up you have the AE Silver and AE Gold Shopper levels with 15% and 20% off respectively. Businesses can add their own incentives and control the amount of check-ins needed to gain a new status level.

To see if a participating company is nearby you navigate to check-in to see what offers are available and at what places around you.  You can enter your zip code, address or city to find exactly what’s around you.

The real-time Twitter streaming updates shows three results at a time and allows you to pause them if you find an interesting Tweet. A “More Updates” button will give you additional updates either shown by Most Recent or by Best Matching results.

In addition to the real-time Twitter update, Bing has also added an additional social media update by making more Facebook additions to the Entertainment section of Bing. This update includes movies, music and television and allows you to share “What’s on your mind?” right on a certain entertainment page. This post will get instantly posted on your Facebook page for all of your friends to see.

These two minor updates and numerous previous updates to Bing are making Bing more of a social platform than the social media sites themselves. How far will Bing go to fit in with the social mediasphere?

And the after results, where some people have liked a particular bed and breakfast:

The results aren’t going to show up every time you make a search, especially if your friends don’t share a lot of things that you search for.

It’s a cool idea to see what you’ve friends have liked or shared, but I don’t think this is a practical or an everyday occurrence. You’ll be lucky if you see any search results from your friends, but it’s still a nice idea to see what you’re friends are interested in while you’re on a searching spree.

Facebook

Facebook notifications now show up on the toolbar and allow you to quickly view Facebook updates such as the News Feed, Photos, Friend Requests, Messages, and other Alerts.

Search Bar

Instead of being on the left side of the bar it’s now in the center of the toolbar. The search bar now has an Instant approach by allowing you to type what you want and go to the search results with minimal clicking. The dropdown results from the search bar will show search history results in purple, suggestions in black, and deep links on the top.

Bing Rewards

This is actually just a preview of the Bing Rewards program, which is currently available in the US only. The new program will give you an incentive to search and use the Bing toolbar/search engine. The credits you earn can be used for real items like gift cards for Amazon, Starbucks and others. If you sign up, by clicking the Bing Rewards icon, you will receive 250 credits free.

This is just a preview of the many features of the Bing Bar. You can download the new Bing Bar to get a better understanding of the new bar or you can check out the full 9 minute video which goes over the Bing Bar.

Microsoft is trying to one-up Google with this new integration, since they beat them to chat inside of an email client (gChat inside of Gmail). They are trying to one-up them by providing not only a chat client inside of an email client, but the added availability of Facebook chat as well.

Already 20 million people have attached their Facebook accounts to their Windows Live accounts. This includes the 2.5 million people that have connected since Facebook chat became available inside of Messenger. Microsoft predicts this number to have a high increase with the new worldwide integration of Facebook chat inside of both Hotmail and Messenger.

To get Facebook chat integrated with Hotmail and Messenger you must first connect your Facebook account and then check the box for “Chat with my Facebook friends in Messenger”. If it doesn’t allow you to chat right away, then you should probably trying logging out and signing back in again.

The guide below will show you how to enable secure connections to Facebook so that you can browse Facebook without concern for your privacy. If you have any comments or questions please use the comments form at the end of the guide.

1. Sign in to your Facebook account and click Account on the top-right corner then Account Settings.

2. When the My Account page loads under Settings, click change in the Account Security section.

3. The Account Security section will expand. Make sure to check Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) whenever possible under Secure Browsing (https). Click Save to save the changes.

Facebook will automatically reload with HTTPS enabled. Any time you sign in to Facebook your connection will be secured, you can verify by checking the https:// preceding the address.