The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the Federal Trade Commission over Google’s decision to change its privacy policies. That may sound a convoluted way to go about things, but EPIC thinks it’s spotted an important legal loophole.
Microsoft is launching a major advertising campaign attacking Google’s recent privacy policy changes. It’s a direct appeal for users upset by the overhaul to switch to services such as Hotmail and Bing.
Google has announced a slight tweak to its rule that previously insisted users were listed solely by their real name. But it’s rejected calls for totally anonymous profiles.
A lot of people are all agog at Apple’s new iBooks Author App. Don’t be. Self publishing software has been around for awhile. Not only has it been around it has been used and is being used successfully to publish books that can be sold for more devices than just Apple’s. Rather than rushing headlong into software that will limit where your book can be read, look around and try out a few different programs.
There’s no question Google’s going all-in with its new social networking service. There are search, promotional and advertising tie ins that are designed to pull us in and keep within searchzilla’s warm embrace, but can Google succeed where so many others have failed?
When even the co-founder of Apple admits he’s a fan of Android, Google knows it’s doing something right.
In a company with tens of thousands of employees and contractors, it can be hard to make sure every one follows the best possible standards. That’s about the nicest thing you can say about two recent incidents that sure don’t tally with Google’s much-hyped “don’t be evil” policy.
A Spanish bank is to use Google’s cloud computing services, a move that will be seen as a credibility boost. But BBVA will only be using the tools for internal communication rather than handling financial data.
Google’s mobile operating system gets a lot of grief for fragmentation. For better, worse and whatever comes after that, the platform is actually standardizing and rapidly so. In fact, a 55 percent and increasing share of active devices are running a version of Android that Google released two Christmases ago.
Google has killed ‘Siri for Android’, and with it the storm in a teacup created and stirred by Apple fanboys/Google haters.
Is Google+ going to topple Facebook or has it already died a very quick death? That all depends on who you choose to listen to.
Go to the store and try an Android — it feels good. A little lagginess in the user interface and goofy, non-intuitive design aside, Google’s been doing quality work. However, the latest batch of Android innovations (not to mention security updates) aren’t getting to users. Though handset makers and the carriers won’t say it directly, if you want the latest version of Android, you will need to buy a new device.
Rumor has it Google is now paying $300 million a year to be the default search engine on Firefox. That’s triple what it previous paid, suggesting a bidding war may have emerged.
Senators who questioned Google executives in September have passed on their findings to the Federal Trade Commission. The gist of it is that they can’t prove anything illegal but something doesn’t smell quite right.
Google has updated its Google Doodles site. And added a merchandise store as well. Geektastic.
Google and the Science Museum in London are collaborating on two exhibitions that will be installed over the next few years. The first exhibition will open in June of 2012 and will celebrate the 100th birthday of Alan Turing the father of computing. The second exhibition will open in 2014 and will be a permanent installation at the museum.
Google’s Chrome is the world’s most popular and secure browser. Well, both those statements are technically true, though only by disputable measures.
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