Google Turns 12: Happy Birthday Google!
Posted on 28. Sep, 2010 by Dahlia Lithwick in Internet
Google has just celebrated its 12 years yesterday Monday with a birthday cake doodle created by Wayne Thiebaud, an American artist known for his paintings of cakes and pastries. Google tweeted:”Our thanks to Wayne Thiebaud for helping us celebrate our 12th bday with a lovely doodle!” It is still unclear why Google chooses to celebrate [...]
Czech Temporarily Stopped Google for Street View
Posted on 21. Sep, 2010 by William Hushburn in Headlines, Technology
The Czech government refused to grant search engine Google the license to collect fresh pictures of their streets for their Street View technology. Their main reason is for Personal Data Protection. Old data can still be used though but negotiations between the two sides are still in progress. Czech Republic is not the only country [...]
Graph Your Inbox Toolbar Measures Your Gmail Activity
Posted on 14. Sep, 2010 by William Hushburn in Headlines, Technology
For all Gmail users out there, you’d probably be interested in this application. We can’t deny the fact that Gmail users has already increased in number and Google has been making it innovative as ever. Having Gmail allows you to do a lot of things within your mailbox. Might as well want to measure how [...]
India Going after Google and Skype Messaging after RIM
Posted on 13. Aug, 2010 by William Hushburn in Technology
India just announced recently that they would as well restrict BlackBerry Services in their country if the security issues won’t be resolved in the middle east. They set an Aug 31. deadline for RIM and wants access in a readable format to encrypted BlackBerry communication, on grounds it could be used by militants. This country [...]
Oracle versus Google on Java Usage in Android
Posted on 13. Aug, 2010 by William Hushburn in Headlines, Technology
The multinational software company Oracle Corporation has filed a lawsuit against the search engine giant Google for infringement charges related to patents and copyrights of Java being used in its Android phone software. Oracle spokesperson Karen Tillman said in a statement that in developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property. [...]
Google Korea Busted by Korean Police
Posted on 12. Aug, 2010 by William Hushburn in Technology
Google Korea has just been raided been authorities recently believing that the company violated the country’s telecommunication-privacy law. The search engine giant has been preparing to launch its program Street View in the country and part of the project was that they deployed Street View Cars around the city which has been equipped with cameras [...]
Google – Verizon Open a Net Neutrality Agreement
Posted on 10. Aug, 2010 by Chris Inkwood in Headlines, Internet, World
Google – Verizon Opens a Net Neutrality Agreement: A Net neutrality urges a claim for both Google and Verizon as they are planning for a joint project and proposal for an “open internet”. This project may cause more harm than good as it will keep networks as open to all data. The said project already [...]
Google Launches Cover Up for their Image Search
Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by Natalie Andersens in Internet, Technology
Most of the internet users are very much aware of the term “Google Spies”. This became a very important added features on Google after American Radio Host Alex Jones raised his concerns about how a particular video files of him has been deleted. The words quickly climbed to the top of the Google Trends list, [...]
US Justice Department objects to Google book deal
Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by Michael James Howard in World
Google attempted to create an online repository of books that will be available for anyone to read and view in the world wide web. Sadly, the US Justice Department has urged a New York court to reject a deal that would allow internet company Google to publish millions of books online. There are a lot [...]
Sprint Releases Its First Google Android Phone
Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by Jamie Sutherland in Technology
Sprint Nextel Corporation is scheduled to release its first mobile phone that will run on Google’s Android software by October, as announced by the company on Thursday. Roger Entner, a telecommunications analyst at Nielson & Co. Digits says that this will definitely help Android become more mainstream. It’s been observed that consumers have been slow [...]