(CNET) Do you know if Google is tracking your Web activity? If you have a Google account (for, say, Gmail) and have not specifically located and paused the Web History setting, then the search giant is keeping track of your searches and the sites you visited. This data has been separated from other Google products,...Read More
By EMILY GLAZER Google Inc. has dramatically expanded its presence in Manhattan in the past year, adding roughly 750 people to its outpost in 2011 in the most prominent example of a technology company shifting its focus toward New York. After acquiring four New York companies and going on a hiring spree for its media...Read More
Computerworld – BARCELONA — Google isn’t offering much information about the forthcoming Android 5.0, even though there are rumors saying that the new version of the operating system will be available on a smartphone by early summer. It’s more likely that it will be rolled out in the fall, based on comments made by Hiroshi...Read More
Google’s plan to share user data across its online services will have little effect on users of the company’s enterprise, government and education application suites, the company said. The rewrite of Google’s privacy policies, scheduled to roll out March 1, will not change Google Apps for business, government and education because those applications suites already...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Amid growing worry about sensitive consumer information being siphoned up by mobile apps, state Attorney General Kamala Harris on Wednesday announced a privacy deal with the six largest mobile Web providers that will change how millions of consumers download apps to their smartphones and tablets. Under the agreement, consumers should see prominent...Read More
Last week, Google scrambled to deflect criticism that it tracked the online activities of users’ of Apple’s Safari Web browser against their wishes, by circumventing an anti-tracking mechanism. Tuesday, Google lashed out at Microsoft in response to allegations that the search giant has been doing much the same to users of Windows Internet Explorer browser....Read More
Microsoft on Monday accused Google of bypassing privacy protections in Internet Explorer, following accusations last week that Google was doing so in Apple’s Safari browser. In a blog post, Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president for Internet Explorer, described how Microsoft believes Google is getting around IE privacy policies. IE by default blocks so-called third-party cookies...Read More
Google Inc. is under fire once again after allegations that it circumvented privacy protections built into the iPhone in order to track what users are doing online. Skip to next paragraph 20 iPhone tips and tricks everyone should know Bing could become default search engine on iPhone Google Voice cleared for use on Apple iPhone Internet Internet...Read More
Google stepped in it, again. The company was caught bypassing the privacy settings of those using Apple’s Safari Web browser, which unlike other major browsers blocks third-party cookies by default. Google, like just about every other online company, relies on cookie files to improve ad relevancy, to identify users, and to deliver online services. The...Read More
Can Google’s PageRank algorithm rid the world of toxic waste? Photo: quinn.anya/Flickr Researchers at Washington State University and the University of Arizona have shown that Google’s famous PageRank algorithm applies to more than just webpages. It also works with water molecules. According to a paper published in the Journal of Computational Chemistry, the same math...Read More
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