Authors win class status over Google digital books

01 Jun, 2012, 12:45 pm IST Web services 1 Comments

Thousands of authors can sue Google Inc in a class-action lawsuit over its plan to create the world's largest digital book library, a federal judge ruled on Th ursday. More

Iran threatens to sue Google over dropping Persian Gulf

18 May, 2012, 1:32 pm IST Web services

Iran's Foreign Ministry threatened on Thursday to take legal action against Google for dropping the name Persian Gulf from its Google Maps and leaving More

Google, authors go head to head over digital books

04 May, 2012, 9:50 am IST Web services

Google Inc , in a long-running legal dispute over its plans to create a digital library of books, argued in court on Thursday that associations of authors ... More

Google engineer behind Street View data breach identified

02 May, 2012, 2:12 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Web services

On Monday, even as we reported about the recently concluded FCC investigation, which drew the world’s attention ... More

FCC report reveals Google employees knew of data breach

30 Apr, 2012, 6:11 pm IST Anuradha Shetty General

An investigation by the officials from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) into the data collection ... More

ITC judge says that Apple infringed on Motorola Mobility patent

25 Apr, 2012, 9:40 am IST Smartphones

Apple Inc infringed on a Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc patent in making its popular iPhones, iPads and other products, a judge for the International Trade ... More

Apple, Google fail to dismiss poaching lawsuit

20 Apr, 2012, 12:49 pm IST Smartphones

Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally ... More

Google fined $25,000 for impeding FCC investigation

16 Apr, 2012, 9:18 am IST Smartphones

Google Inc has been fined $25,000 for impeding a U.S. investigation into the Web search leader's data collection for its Street View project, which allows users ... More

Court revives Rosetta Stone suit vs Google

11 Apr, 2012, 9:31 am IST Smartphones

A federal appeals court on Monday revived the bulk of language-software maker Rosetta Stone Inc's trademark infringement lawsuit against Google Inc. More

Viacom video lawsuit vs. Google revived

09 Apr, 2012, 9:26 am IST Smartphones

A U.S. appeals court dealt Google Inc a major defeat by reviving lawsuits by Viacom Inc, the English Premier League and various other media companies ... More

Apple vs. Android: A courtroom war of attrition

21 Mar, 2012, 9:47 am IST Smartphones

Before his death, Apple Inc's Steve Jobs famously promised to go "thermonuclear" against smartphones running Google's Android software, ... More

Google+ subject of complaints by Microsoft, others in EU

29 Feb, 2012, 9:00 am IST Social Networking

Microsoft and several other companies have complained to EU antitrust regulators about Google's social networking tool, two people familiar ... More

Data collection arms race feeds privacy fears

20 Feb, 2012, 10:27 am IST Social Networking

This week's revelations that Google Inc , Twitter and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have prompted More

Google, Yahoo! suspected of forex violation

15 Feb, 2012, 5:16 pm IST Team Tech2 Social Networking

The Indian government is investigating whether local units of U.S. Internet giants Google Inc and Yahoo Inc ... More

Google beefs up security in Android Market

03 Feb, 2012, 10:52 am IST Android

Google Inc has been quietly policing its online store for months now in an acknowledgement of malware's growing threat to its increasingly popular ... More

Banks, Internet companies team up to fight spam

30 Jan, 2012, 3:11 pm IST Android 1 Comments

Some of the world's biggest Internet companies and financial services firms have developed a new approach to fighting email spam that they hope ... More

Google donates $11.5 million to fight modern slavery

15 Dec, 2011, 9:02 am IST Android

Google Inc is donating $11.5 million in grants to fight modern slavery and its hold on 27 million people worldwide, the technology company said on Wednesday. More

Google still argues against U.S. online piracy bill

17 Nov, 2011, 9:09 am IST Android

Google Inc warned U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday that proposed legislation to crack down on foreign websites selling pirated U.S. movies, music or other counterfeit goods ... More

Google's Eric Schmidt blasts Internet copyright bills

16 Nov, 2011, 10:41 am IST Android

Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt blasted proposed legislation to tighten online copyright regulation on Tuesday, saying the bills would lead to censorship of the Internet. More

Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, strike ad alliance

09 Nov, 2011, 10:53 am IST Android

Yahoo Inc, Microsoft Corp and AOL Inc have set up an advertising partnership as Google and Facebook's online ad dominance grows. The alliance, announced on Tuesday, ... More