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The mobile international barriers continue to fall as AT&T announces a free talk, text and data plan for their customers traveling to Mexico. Starting tomorrow, November 13th, AT&T customers on Mobile Share Value plans will be able to add free-of-charge the ability to talk, text and 1GB of data to their phones for calls within and from Mexico to the United States.  It is the latest in the battle between the national carriers to include these basic services for customers traveling to Mexico and Canada as the North America continent becomes increasingly a “roam-free” zone.

Today YouTube has launched the all new YouTube Music app.  This music centric app follows in the footsteps of other content specific apps like YouTube Kids and YouTube Gaming by providing music audio and video content in an clean and simple app that allows offline listening.  Tied in with the recently launched YouTube Red service, YouTube Music allows subscribers to view music videos, listen to music online or offline and has a powerful search function to find your favorite artist.  Further, you can setup your own stations (playlists) for the genre or artist you like most.

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As a heavy user of Google services, there are a lot of settings and controls that are available to me to keep certain things private from the general public.  I for example have no problem with everyone knowing I live in the Denver, Colorado area but I don’t really want everyone to know my physical address.  I love you guys and all but….

Before now, you could go to the Google Accounts page and wade through all of the different security and privacy settings for your account and how things appear on Google+, YouTube and other Google sites.  Now the company has made it much easier to go and find those settings and adjust them.  This week they launched the Google About Me site, a single site that allows you to edit your personal information as well as privacy settings for virtually every setting on your Google account.  Google About Me is aimed to help you see all of your settings and information and give you the ability to quickly edit them instead of having to jump through hoops on the account page.

Yesterday I posted on the updated build of Chrome OS which contained several security and bug fixes.  They have now pushed out an updated version of the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux users.  The updated build is version 46.0.2490.86 for those keeping score at home and your current install should automatically update to this build via an OTA update.

Interestingly, in the release notes for this build, Google did not expose the number or types of fixes that were addressed in the update.

Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.

As a general rule, Google will post the list of bug fixes and other updates in a release of Chrome. This time they haven’t which may indicate that a serious security flaw was discovered and they don’t want to expose it just yet.