Google’s autonomous vehicle cruises the Las Vegas Strip. (Image courtesy of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles)Google’s self-driving car is growing up right in front of our eyes: The fledgling autonomous vehicle program recently passed its driver’s license test in Nevada, the first license of its kind in the United States. Obtaining Nevada’s self-driving car...Read More
Click photo to enlarge SAN FRANCISCO — A federal jury on Monday found that Google’s (GOOG) popular Android mobile software infringes on copyrights held by tech rival Oracle (ORCL), but it deadlocked on the question of whether Google was excused under the legal concept of “fair use.” While rejecting some allegations brought by Oracle, the...Read More
Google is negotiating with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over how big a fine it will have to pay for its breach of Apple’s Safari internet browser, a person familiar with the matter said. The fine could amount to more than $US10 million, said the person, who declined to be identified because the talks...Read More
The jury has reached a partial verdict in the copyright phase of Oracle’s intellectual property dispute with Google, and the judge has given them more time to try to resolve the remaining issue. The jury foreman told the court on Friday that the 12-member panel had reached unanimous agreement on all but one of the...Read More
(click image for larger view and for slideshow) After deliberating for more than three days, the jury tasked with determining whether Google’s Android operating system infringes Oracle’s intellectual property rights in Java remained undecided about the copyright claim as noon, Pacific Time, approached on Friday. Oracle sued Google last year, alleging that Android infringed Oracle’s...Read More
“The question of ownership is very murky because of the contractual relationships between the parties and because it is conceded that in many cases authors receive no royalties from the publisher for these displays,†she said. Joanne Zack, a lawyer for The Authors Guild, countered that the judge should certify the authors as a class...Read More
Google’s snooping into wireless network data via its Street View cars—behavior that triggered a Federal Communications Commission investigation, as well as multiple lawsuits—is back in the news via a report on Tuesday from the New York Times that identifies the engineer behind the project. But while there has been much public outrage about what Google...Read More
The engineer who wrote the code causing Google’s Street View cars to capture unencrypted Wi-Fi traffic in several countries has been identified, according to an online report. Marius Milner, currently a software engineer for Google’s YouTube, was the person responsible for creating Street View’s Wi-Fi traffic recording software, The New York Times is reporting. The...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — After Oracle made its closing statements on Monday morning at the U.S. District Court, Google’s Robert Van Nest stepped up to the plate, defending Android‘s implementation of the 37 Java APIs at question in this lawsuit. Van Nest’s core defense rested on positioning this as a case of fair use, asserting that...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — New revelations in a full report detailing the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into Google’s Street View service are raising questions about whether the search giant escaped scrutiny for capturing personal information from millions of unknowing households across the nation. Chief among the new disclosures: The engineer who intentionally wrote the software code...Read More
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