The Cupertino-based technology giant has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to collect more information for its investigation into Google’s business practices, reports Bloomberg. The FTC is particularly focusing on the agreements that made Google the preferred search engine in Safari for iPhone and iPad, an unknown source reports Bloomberg. The Redmond-based [...]
Majority of the Google+ users prefer using mobile web version of the service than opting for Android or iOS apps to make posts on the social network. The mobile web version certainly offers users a smooth and more integrated experience for all of Google’s products. The native apps for Google+ seem to get mobile team [...]
If you want to share a post on Facebook from your blog, you might find it hard to do so, in case you are using a Blogger site. The social networking giant has recently introduced a Captcha check, i.e. a dialog box appears whenever you attempt to post from a Blogger that contains a hard-to-read [...]
The recent round of investigation raises a question whether the new privacy policy from Google is in conflict with European law. The French official data protection agency is launching an investigation to find out. According to Reuters, the Paris-based data watchdog CNIL will investigate Google’s new policies across Europe. CNIL sent a letter to Google [...]
The search giant has made an interesting announcement earlier today that it is going to add the artificial language Esperanto to its Google Translate service. Esperanto was the language which was crafted by Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof and was published in 1887 book Unia Libro. It was, in fact, designed as a common language that all [...]
The search giant has already celebrated its success in two fronts regarding the approval of its Motorola Mobility’s acquisition – the company has gained approval of US and European regulators for its approaching acquisition of Motorola Mobility earlier this week. The company is now looking forward to get approval from Chinese authorities to move ahead. [...]
After getting a final approval from European regulators, Google has now received a green signal from US regulators as well to finalize its $12.5 billion Motorola Mobility’ acquisition. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has finally approved the search giant’s supposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility. These are the two major hurdles restricting Google to [...]
The search giant has happily announced that it has got a green signal from European regulators to finalize its Motorola Mobility acquisition. Google’s Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Don Harrison sad in a blog post, “This is an important milestone in the approval process and it moves us closer to closing the deal. We [...]
We reported last week that Iran has been blocking all SSL sites including Google in preparation the forthcoming anniversary of its 1979 revolution. The report has been confirmed officially by the search giant, as the company revealed that several of its services have been blocked in the country by the local government. This is not [...]
The search giant displayed the new version of its Google TV at last month’s CES, showing the world what it had under its camp. Rupert Murdoch led the panel discussing Google TV’s new practicalities. On its Facebook Page, Google TV said that it has some big announcements in store for the world. Google TV said [...]
The Cupertino-based tech giant has recently filed a proposal for preliminary ban against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the United States for infringing on Apple’s four patents, Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents reports. Apple’s current move is certainly is an aggressive one as the company uses its very strong patents to prove its point. The [...]
In an attempt to get back part of the $12.5 billion it is spending to acquire Motorola Mobility, the search giant sent a letter to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) looking for a maximum 2.25% cut of sales for using Motorola’s technology in their phones, including Apple’s iPhone. The search giant sent [...]
South Korean Police today said that Google collected e-mails and other personal information from unsecured wireless networks in the country while filming photographs for its Street View mapping service.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported on Google attempting to get media backing for a new Google-operated digital newsstand for users of devices that run its Android Operating System. According to the report, Google is hoping to muscle in on Apple’s own version of the digital newsstand.
2011 may kick off with a lot of pressure on Google in upgrading its Android operating system software. We may see a year where Google will focus extremely on developing and releasing its upcoming Honeycombe for the Android device, something a number of Android makers are betting on.
The only company that effectively prevented Facebook from dominating the Internet has been Google. Now Facebook is challenging Google’s supremacy on the Internet with a different approach on how people live, work, play and search on the Internet.
