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Google to pull the Android kill switch

03/07/2011, After last week’s fiasco of allowing malware onto the Android Market, it looks like Google has decided to step in to rectify the problem. They have announced that they will be pulling the kill switch to get rid of those [...]

Gmail threading gets kill switch from Google

09/29/2010, In what could probably be one of the longest standing feature request for Gmail, Google outlined plans for Gmail users to disable Conversation View in order to view their messages in chronological order. Ever since Gmail took off, related messages [...]

Google Exercises Its Android App Kill Switch

06/25/2010, We already knew that Google and Apple are capable of remotely removing apps from their mobile operating systems, but it’s still quite scary to see such power actually being exercised. It has been confirmed that Google has used its death [...]

Windows Marketplace Kill Switch

09/19/2009, Nobody is fond of Apple’s AppStore kill switch, where they can kill an app if they decide that it doesn’t conform to their terms and services. The worst part is that they don’t do refunds either. That being said, it’s [...]