“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
What a rush! Google has hidden a new Easter Egg on its homepage that’s bound to get gaming geeks hyped. Type the words “zerg rush†into the search bar on the Google.com site and you’ll see your search result on what seems like a normal page — until the “Oâ€s from the Google logo start...Read More
Amid the excitement over Google Drive, the search giant’s new Dropbox competitor, Microsoft recently improved a similar online sync and storage service, SkyDrive. Microsoft added the ability to store files online and sync across multiple devices right from your Windows or OS X desktop. That puts SkyDrive squarely in competition with Dropbox and Drive, five...Read More
Computerworld – The long-awaited Google Drive is a simple, useful, straightforward cloud storage and syncing service that offers a full 5GB of online storage for free, with no surprises along the way. Utilitarian rather than flashy, it makes storing files to the cloud and syncing them among multiple devices as simple as saving a file...Read More
The oft-rumored and delayed data-storage service made its debut today, joining a growing list of high-tech players serving consumers and small businesses. Drive lets people store photos, documents and videos on Google’s servers so that they are accessible from any Web-connected device and easily shared with others. If you wanted to e-mail a video shot...Read More
With developer interest in its android operating system trailing Apple’s iOS, Google is turning on the charm. By Alex Konrad, reporter FORTUNE — Consumers love Google’s Android operating system: Some 50% of U.S. smartphone subscribers now use a device that runs on the Android platform, according to a recent Comscore survey. But software developers? Not...Read More
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