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Google has settled lawsuits brought against it by major publishers and authors that argued that Google's wholesale scanning and indexing of in-copyright books without permission amounted to massive copyright violations.
An uproar erupted when iPhone users discovered a so-called remote kill switch on their phones -- will it spur the same reaction in users of the G1, the first Android phone?
Google is testing a new feature on its Maps site that adds geo-tagged video from YouTube to maps in the same way that photos are currently added.
Google has launched an audio search indexing experiment that allows users to find spoken words inside videos and jump to the portion of the video where the words are spoken.
Although Google Inc. has yet to come up with Mac or Linux editions of its new Chrome browser, CodeWeavers, a company best known for its CrossOver software, has assembled imitations for those operating systems using Google's own source code.
Google is launching a beta version of its own Web browser today (Sep 2) in more than 100 countries, the company announced Monday in a blog posting.
Google hopes a new Web site will help convince the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to allow a new generation of wireless broadband devices to connect via unused television spectrum.
A federal judge Tuesday ruled that Google must turn over a YouTube logging database containing 12TB of data that includes user log-in IDs, IP addresses and video viewing habits to Viacom International. The media and entertainment firm had sought the data -- recorded once a user starts to watch a YouTube -- as part of its US$1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google's video unit.
Adobe has announced the company is teaming up with Google and Yahoo improve search results of Web sites based around the company's Flash technology. Adobe is providing optimised Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines.
Tech icons Apple and Google top BusinessWeek's 2008 list of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies. This year's ranking adds three financial data points - revenue, margin growth and stock returns - to survey results from company executives and senior management to decide which business belts out the brightest innovations.
Google has defended the length of time it retains web-users' data following the release of a report on the way European data-protection laws should be applied to Web-search services.
While lauding Apple's iPhone as being innovative in the mobile space, a Google official Thursday later cited disadvantages of the device, which is expected to compete with upcoming Google-backed Android phones.
Traditional media companies should see Google as a friend willing to help them take advantage of online opportunities, and not as an enemy that competes with them.
Earlier this week, Steve Jobs saw his company land at the top of Fortune Magazine's list of Most Admired Companies. On Thursday, the Apple CEO found himself on a list published by another financial magazine, as Forbes released its annual list of the world's richest people..
Will Google open its Russian office on schedule? Will Gmail users use search more? How many Gmail users will the company accumulate by the end of 2007? Will Harriet Meyers be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice?
Android is Google's foray into the handheld OS realm. It follows a path trodden by – among others – Symbian's Quartz, the SavaJe operating system, and J2ME. In fact, one of Android's stated goals is to overcome some of J2ME's shortcomings. Whether or not Android succeeds, either at that specific goal, or in general, remains to be seen.
Google's Android software platform for mobile phones is coming to life in Barcelona, with a number of chip manufacturers showing it running on prototype or proof-of-concept phones at the Mobile World Congress on Monday.
Google may have plans to expand its search engine beyond static text.
Google's plans to enter the mobile industry with a cell phone platform might have impressed many in the industry but not Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and one of Google's biggest competitors.
Mobile operators that joined Google for the launch of the Android mobile platform see a vast army of developers lining up on their side to help get new applications out to eager subscribers.
