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Google, Microsoft tangle over tracking, online privacy

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....
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Microsoft Says Google Circumvents IE Privacy Policies Too

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...
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iPhone tracking: Is Google breaking its privacy pledge?

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...
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Google’s Privacy Invasion: It’s Your Fault

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...
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Researchers Fight Toxic Waste With Google PageRank

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...
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Google At Work On Some Sort Of Home Entertainment System

Sigh. Remember Google TV? Yeah, we barely do. Anyway, the Bay Area’s most well publicized employer is working on their first real foray into the world of entertainment hardware, with the intent of releasing something that’s only being referred to as an “entertainment device” sometime this year. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the...
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Report: Google plans cloud-storage service

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Google Chrome browser arrives on Android (video)

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Facebook, Google remove content

By Arup Roychoudhury and Harichandan Arakali NEW DELHI/BANGALORE | Mon Feb 6, 2012 9:05pm IST NEW DELHI/BANGALORE (Reuters) – Internet giants Google Inc (GOOG.O) and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown “like China” if they did not take steps to protect religious...
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Facebook Has Microsoft Ally in Google Battle

Facebook’s initial public offering will hand the social network billions of dollars to spend on future projects, and turn many of its employees into millionaires or billionaires. It will also intensify competition with Google, which desperately wants to establish an outsized presence in the social-networking realm. Google+, the search-engine giant’s attempt to out-Facebook Facebook, reached...
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