Billionaire Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has sued 11 major Web-based companies, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube and eBay, alleging they infringed internet patents he owns. AOL, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, and Staples are the other companies accused of violating four patents said cover fundamental web technologies first developed at Interval Research in [...]
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24 Aug
YouTube launches new mobile site
New YouTube mobile site offers faster browsing, better quality videos and is built on HTML5 Google has launched a new mobile version of its video-sharing site, YouTube. The refreshed site is designed to offer a better video experience across mobile devices, and deliver better quality videos to viewers, faster. The new site, which is built [...]
19 Aug
Social media: do we need new rules?
As Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggests young people may need to change their names to escape their online past, web users are coming to terms with how careful they need to be online Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, is developing a reputation for making bold and often controversial statements about privacy online. Last year he [...]
12 Aug
Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal
Over the past few days there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding our announcement of a policy proposal on network neutrality we put together with Verizon. On balance, we believe this proposal represents real progress on what has become a very contentious issue, and we think it could help move the network neutrality debate forward [...]
11 Aug
Police in South Korea Raid Google’s Office
SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean police raided the offices of Google Korea on Tuesday as part of an investigation into whether the company had illegally collected and stored personal wireless data. The search company is already facing lawsuits and investigations in several countries in connection with private wireless data collected for its Street [...]
10 Aug
Google ‘has made few compromises’ on net neutrality
Google has done well out of its net neutrality deal with Verizon, say analysts, but campaigners are critical. In the wake of Google’s proposals to enshrine the equal rights of all sorts of online traffic over the internet in law, a number of commentators have taken differing opinions. Google has joined with wireless provider Verizon [...]
10 Aug
App Tuesday: nine new apps introduced to the Google Apps Marketplace
It’s App Tuesday again, which means we’re excited to launch nine new apps in the Google Apps Marketplace. Like the other 150+ installable apps in the Marketplace, these apps help solve some of the toughest challenges that many businesses face today. While all apps are accessible from a user’s universal navigation bar, some of these [...]
9 Aug
A joint policy proposal for an open Internet
Today, Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon, will announce a joint proposal for an open Internet. We’ve been working with Verizon to find common ground on the issue of net neutrality for nearly a year—last October we released a shared statement of principles, and in January, we made a joint filing [...]
9 Aug
Seventh U.S. state is fourth to head to the cloud
Today we’re happy to announce that The Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC) will make Google Apps for Education available to 1.4 million students in the state. MEEC is comprised of the University System of Maryland, Maryland Higher Education Commission and Maryland Department of Education, and provides software resources and services to its 194 members across [...]
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