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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 t... (more)

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4xf4ll/digital_media_in) has announced the addition of the "Digital Media - Insights into Google" company profile to their offering. Google and Facebook have both become innovative leaders of the digital m... (more)

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a8d9ca/google_secrets) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Google Secrets" to their offering. Google Secrets - Become a Google Guru with These Effective Tips, Tricks, and Techniques ... (more)

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,... (more)

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 equall... (more)

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.” The FTC is reported... (more)

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 ev... (more)

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... (more)

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 Hug... (more)

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 gettin... (more)

"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 ... (more)

"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, spoken Tuesday during his State ... (more)

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 ho... (more)

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 ants... (more)

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"... (more)

As widely reported this week, the United States General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded a contract to Unisys to create a secure cloud-based email and collaboration platform. The solution will be based on Google Apps for Government and is expected to save $15M over the n... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 30-year old Founder & CEO Andrew Mason (pictured) have reportedly ended the "direct negotiations" between the two companies... (more)

"We applaud GSA for boldly embracing the benefits of cloud computing to improve communications and collaboration across their diverse organization," said Ted Davies, president of Unisys Federal Systems. "We are excited to partner with our longstanding GSA customer to more effecti... (more)

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 Goog... (more)