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Privacy group demands government action on Google

John Lister — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:55:09 +0000

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.

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Microsoft on the offense over Google privacy

John Lister — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:04:36 +0000

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 unveiled two main changes to its personal data [...] Related posts:

Google+ allows nicknames & maiden names

John Lister — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:00:44 +0000

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.

As we reported last July, Google initially had a somewhat muddled policy of telling users [...] Related posts:

Before you decide to publish with iBooks look at what others have to offer

Susan Wilson — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:02:13 +0000

A lot of people are all agog [...] Related posts:

Over 90 million reasons to join Google+

Ronald O Carlson — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:07:50 +0000

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?

Facebook claims that it has 800 million users with [...] Related posts:

Woz loves Android, hates Siri

Dave Parrack — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:24:55 +0000

When even the co-founder of Apple admits he’s a fan of Android, Google knows it’s doing something right.

Steve Wozniak is ‘the other Steve’, the one who happily faded into the background while Steve Jobs did his thing. And while Jobs was [...] Related posts:

Google workers sure look to be doing evil

John Lister — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:29:41 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Spanish bank joins Google cloud

John Lister — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:14:16 +0000

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.

The bank says around 110,000 staff in 26 countries [...] Related posts:

Android 2.x: It’s what you want to develop for in 2012

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:51:16 +0000

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.

It was on [...] Related posts:

Google kills Siri for Android, Official App

Dave Parrack — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:53:29 +0000

Google has killed ‘Siri for Android’, and with it the storm in a teacup created and stirred by Apple fanboys/Google haters.

It was noticed yesterday that a new app had made its way onto the Android Market. Its [...] Related posts: