Xiaomi, a Chinese phone maker, sells devices running a modified version of Google’s Android operating system, but without any Google services. Zhang Jin/Xinhua—Alamy Google’s Android operating system can be used—and changed—by anyone. Now the search giant might be losing control of its creation. When Amazon’s Kindle Fire phone debuted last month, the engineers at Google’s...Read More
Documents show Google has written to the California state government to request permission to test motorbikes and trucks on public roads The technology giant has caused controversy over driverless vehicle testing as critics complain of our ever-increasing reliance on technology The company’s driverless car technology remains in the prototype stage, but their autonomous fleet has...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO –  Four Silicon Valley companies including Apple and Google failed to persuade a U.S. judge to sign off on a $324.5 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit by tech workers, who accused the firms of conspiring to avoid poaching each other’s employees. In a ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in...Read More
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Google removed a controversial game from its Play store on Monday that called for users to drop missiles from Israeli aircraft onto cartoonish Hamas militants following outcry that the app was insensitive. The game, “Bomb Gaza,” which was uploaded to the store last week and had been installed more than 1,000 times, tasks would-be users...Read More
Alas, poor Google barge. We hardly knew you. Google confirmed Friday that it’s scrapping at least one of the mysterious floating tech showrooms that drew headlines, speculation and some ridicule last fall. The giant Internet company wouldn’t comment on the fate of a second barge, now sitting idle at the Port of Stockton. But plans...Read More
Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images Google has revealed which countries have made the most requests for links to be removed from search results under Europe’s new “right to be forgotten”. The European Union in May enshrined in law the individual’s “right to be forgotten” with a ruling that anyone could request to have themselves removed from search...Read More
Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system has a security flaw that could allow hackers to impersonate trusted applications and potentially hijack your phone or tablet, according to research released today. The basic issue is the way in which Android checks—or rather, does not check—that certain applications are what they say they are, according to Bluebox Security, the...Read More
Earlier this month I wrote a piece about Google and the so-called “right to be forgotten†in Europe. Essentially the European Union (EU)  had allowed a judgment that said if someone asked for a piece of history about themselves to be taken out of search engines – effectively erasing it from history – then Google...Read More
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