Google has exited the Chinese market market for online search, but two of its biggest rivals, Microsoft and Baidu, have signed a pact to cooperate in the populous country. Specifically, Microsoft will supply search results for English-language queries on the Chinese search engine, according to representatives for both companies that spoke to The New York...Read More
Think Google’s budding social network Google+ is a copycat of social networking juggernaut Facebook? Think again. A group of engineers has made a hack in Facebook that mimics the way Google+ builds friend lists, tech site TechCrunch reported. Facebook engineers Vladimir Kolesnikov, Peng Fan, Zahan Malkani, Brian Rosenthal designed Circlehack, which gets inspiration from Google+’s...Read More
Since Google+ launched June 28, users lucky enough to get invites have been making mental and written checklists of comparisons between the new Google+ social network and the incumbents. Yes, with the arrival of Google+ as a potentially big new network, Facebook and Twitter have become the incumbent to Google’s challenger. And yet there is...Read More
On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it was shutting down its home energy monitoring service, Hohm. The move comes just days after Google announced that it was discontinuing its equivalent service, PowerMeter. Google’s cancellation was coupled with the termination of its medical software, Google Health; so far, there’s no indication that Microsoft intends to cancel its...Read More
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is adding Gmail to its short list of software products it is redesigning in the wake of launching its long-awaited Google+ social network. One day afterrevealing tweaks to Google Search and Google Maps, the company said it is trying its hand at several interface updates to help strip out clutter. Google’s first experiment...Read More
Computerworld – A federal judge has declined to dismiss charges against Google that it allegedly violated the Federal Wiretap Act when it collected personal data from Wi-Fi networks. U.S. District Court Judge James Ware on Wednesday tossed accusations that Google’s Street View vehicles broke several states’ laws when they harvested usernames, passwords and emails from...Read More
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A federal judge has denied Google’s request to dismiss several lawsuits accusing the company of illegally collecting private information from open Wi-Fi networks. The ruling, filed in California court Wednesday, is a setback for Google as it tries to put its “Street View” debacle behind it. In May 2010, Google admitted...Read More
In swift juxtaposition to the official opening of the U.S. FTC antitrust investigation, Google released a new version of their transparency report. The report gives additional levels of insight into government influence on censorship. The Improved Report Google released its first transparency report in September 2010 and since that time have implemented several new features,...Read More
Google’s new social network, “Google+” premiered today to much fanfare in the media, and rightly so. The service launched to a limited number of users today in what Google is calling a “field trial.” A few PCWorld staffers were lucky enough to be invited to try out the service (it’ll roll out to everybody in...Read More
After months of waiting, Google today finally unveiled its new social project called Google+, which turns all of Google’s services into one giant social network. The company has redesigned the top navigation bar to work across all of its services. It’s very similar to the notification bar found in Facebook, which alerts you whenever new...Read More
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