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Judge William Alsup Wednesday refused to decide whether Google had
fairly used the Java IP a jury found Android infringed Monday.
There are, you see, circumstances that allow copyrighted work to be copied
without the owner’s consent such as creating something new that advances
th...
Judge William Alsup has now definitely said that there ain’t gonna be an
Oracle-Google trial this year.
In place of that disappointment he has proposed that there be a three-phase
trial before the same jury: the first on copyright infringement, the second on
patent infringement, ...
Google got its way. The Justice Department isn’t going to oppose its $700
million acquisition of ITA Software, which provides the data for airline
tickets to airlines and online travel companies, a purchase the agency has
been reviewing since last July. But unlike Google’s equally o...
Already under investigation for antitrust in Europe, Google could face
a broad parallel investigation of its dominant search business in the US
by the Federal Trade Commission, Bloomberg said Monday quoting two
unidentified people “familiar with the matter.”
A heck of a way for L...
The Federal Trade Commission has charged Google and its infamous Buzz social network with deceptive privacy practices and violating its own privacy promises.
To settle up Google has agreed to implement a “comprehensive privacy program” and submit to third-party privacy audits every t...
The monetizing MPEG-LA patent consortium has whistled up anybody who
thinks they have patent dibs on the royalty-free open source VP8/WebM
video codec that Google bought to replace the technically superior, royalty-
bearing H.264 standard in HTML 5.
MPEG-LA, which controls H.264 ...
Google held a quasi-private viewing at the GooglePlex Wednesday so the
press could ooh and ah over the still-unfinished Android 3.0, its tablet-
friendly version of the operating system also known as Honeycomb that still
has no fixed release date.
Product management director Hugo...
The latest tablet figures claim that shipments doubled sequentially in Q4
to 9.4 million units, up 120% from 4.4 million units in Q3, and that iPad
– which owned 96% of the market in Q3 – suffered a 21% share loss to
Android – up 2,000% – complements of Samsung purportedly getting o...
"Enterprises everywhere are realizing the inherent benefits of running their core IT services in the cloud,” said Todd McKinnon, most recently VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com from 2003 to 2009, and now CEO of the on-demand identity and access management service, Okta.
"This shift ...
"We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation doesn’t just change our lives. It’s how we make a living." With this one sentence, President Barack Obama ushered in once...
On the day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 12,000 for the first time since June 2008, it was impossible not to correlate the eloquence and optimism of President Obama's "State of the Union" speech on Tuesday night with the restoration of a sense of perspective and hope in ...
Outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt is only going to stick around as executive chairman for a year after he turns the company over to co-founder Larry Page, 37, on April 4, according to the New Yorker's Ken Auletta, who wrote the book "Googled."
Eric reportedly started getting antsy af...
Due to a record increase in the number, quality and breadth of submissions to the Conference Advisory Board, the organizers of 8th Cloud Expo (June 6-9, 2011) - Cloud Expo New York 2011 - have extended the technical program through the addition of an all-new "Telcos in the Cloud" track...
Google is supposed to unveil a beta Chrome OS on a generic Atom-based netbook Tuesday and put the Google-branded thing into limited circulation in the run-up to a commercial product next year. Reportedly no more than 65,000 of this first-stab widget will be made as an appeal to develop...
Chicago-based "social buying" site Groupon will not, after all, be acquired by Google for approaching $6 billion. That's because Groupon's investors and its CEO Andrew Mason have reportedly ended the "direct negotiations" between the two companies that Reuters was already reporting on ...
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) on Thursday awarded a contract to Unisys to create a secure cloud-based email and collaboration platform, based on Google Apps for Government, to allow GSA employees to collaborate and work remotely from any location at any time.
Accordin...
Google is reportedly ready to shell out $5 billion-$6 billion – evidently more
like $6 billion – to buy two-year-old Groupon.
The All Things Digital blog says the bid works out to $5.3 billion down and
$700 million in earnouts unless negotiations fall apart.
That’s more than Go...
The rumors are approaching consensus that a pair of new netbooks running the Google Chrome OS may/will be available early in the New Year. The details of the specs and marketing plans are still a bit vague, but we do know that they will run the Chrome OS. We think that they will be c...
Google’s luck dodging formal antitrust investigations has finally run out.
The European Commission said Tuesday that it will investigate charges
Google has abused its dominant position in search by closing out the
competition.
Google is looking to build its own Facebook to defend against Facebook and its 500 million members running off with too many ads or even starting an ad network across other sites à la Google’s AdSense according to the Wall Street Journal.
The search giant has reportedly been talking ...
Google's quixotic and poorly executed attempt to do business in China on its terms rather than the Chinese government's has suffered another serious setback.
Google's Internet Content Providers (ICP) license to run google.cn expired on Wednesday and the Communist regime told the compa...
First it seemed that everybody’s middle name suddenly changed to cloud.
Now every boy simply has to have a tablet.
The tablet du jour is a thing that’s coming out in Q1 from Cisco called Cius (say see-us). Oh, stop rubbing your eyes, yes, Cisco.
It’s a little seven-inch Andr...
Google has lost the guy who started and led its Chrome OS project to Facebook.
Matthew Papakipos, who joined Google in 2007 when it acquired PeakStream which he founded, tweeted the news Monday morning, saying “Now that Chrome OS & WebGL are in good shape, it’s time for something n...
In a move that will come as no surprise to anyone, Google is planning to set up an online store for third-party Chrome apps later this year.
It’s promising a secure payment system. It’s also got some documentation on how to write Chrome apps for the store but warns that technical d...
Having alienated carriers like Sprint and Verizon by trying to sell its Android-based Nexus One phone direct to the consumer from its google.com/phone online store - Google's attempt to change the traditional cell phone sales model - it's killing the four-month-old store, describing it...
Google said Tuesday that it means to buy Norway's publicly traded VoIP codec house Global IP Solutions Holding AB (GIPS) for $68.2 million cash, a move that could put it in contention with Skype not to mention the telecom companies that are selling its phones.
The deal, which repres...
Google, which has got more secrets than the CIA, has just bought that mystery outfit Agnilux that the PA Semi guys who didn't fit into Apple - or picked up their winnings from Apple's $278 million 2008 acquisition of PA and moved on to the next crap game- are supposed to have started.
...
Those unidentified but allegedly Chinese hackers who got into Google's repository in December got access to the code for the software that authenticates users of Google's Gmail and calendar and other online apps according to the Wall Street Journal, which quoted a "person familiar with...
Google's reportedly admitting that it's met somebody that's bigger, tougher and even more dominance-minded than it is, namely the Chinese government, which isn't going to let a little thing like Google leaving the country come between it and a censored Internet.
Whatever talks Googl...
I’ve been thinking about my presence on the Internet from the early days, from my time at Argonne National Labs near Chicago in 1988-1989 and from my graduate school days at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1989-1992. That was even before the web browser days, which didn’t...
Apple is beginning to know how Xerox PARC felt.
Like Apple did to PARC, Google has lifted from Apple again this time on behalf of Google Apps and set up a Google Apps Marketplace where third parties can sell business programs that integrate with Google Apps to the two million compa...
Introduced last week Google's Facebook / Twitter-like Buzz social networking widgetry, untested outside the company and put in Gmail as a default, immediately raised a privacy hullabaloo over the idea that a list of the people Gmail users communicated with the most would be automatical...
Google Buzz "new media" topic launched on Monday on Ulitzer.
Google Buzz is a social integration and messaging tool by Google, designed to integrate into the company's web-based email program, Gmail. Shared links and messages show up in the user's inbox. Buzz focuses on integrating ...
Reportedly unable to buy Twitter last summer, Google got Twitter-ized Tuesday. It has integrated a self-affirming, “I tweet therefore I am,” so-called babble-style capability smacking a lot of Facebook and Twitter into Gmail so users can share media and status updates with a connected ...
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