Tag Archives : Google

Google got a rap on its knuckle again for it’s Streetview violation, it was fined 145,000 euros  by The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information a German regulator for collecting wireless network data by its Street View cars. The Hamburg Commissioner called the company’s acts “one of the most serious cases of violation of data protection” in German history. Google’s [...]

Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt has defended Google’s low tax payments in UK, claiming that Google operates within the law and is responsible for “billions of pounds” of spend in the country. Britian’s  Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused Google last December of “immorally” minimizing their tax bills. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) claimed Google paid [...]

Google is testing waters to adding Google Now functionality to the Google home page according to Alex Chitu from the Google Operating System blog. Google Now is currently available for Android users and Google Glass users, “Google Now uses your location to show relevant information like weather, traffic conditions, and nearby places. Google can know your location based on your browser settings and [...]

A Malware  family called Badnews has been discovered by Lookout Security in Google Play developer accounts, Badnews avoided detection and made its way onto the Google Play store has been downloaded between 2-9 million times according to Lookout . Google was notified of the outbreak and all affected apps have been removed from the Android store. Lookout found 32 applications that contained code from [...]

Twitter advertisers rejoice, Twitter has introduced changes to its ad platform which will let advertisers to target ads to Twitter users based on the words used in the tweets and deliver ads based on those keywords. The feature called ‘keyword targeting in timelines‘, and its available today in 15 languages and all markets. Twitter says that this does not mean more ads for the users, only that [...]

Google Apps and many of the products within it, including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Chat and so forth are down for many for the past 30 minutes or so. The Google Apps Status Dashboard is denying the outage.   This is not the first time some portion of Google Apps has gone offline, and Gmail has had its share of troubles. Still, both services are up and active far more than these occasional glitches.  

Google updated its YouTube app for iOS on Monday, adding a new features like live streaming and the ability to queue videos for TV playback. According to the update notes listed in the App Store, version 1.3 brings these new features: Quick access to new uploads for subscriptions via “My Subscriptions” feed on the Guide. Access to Live streams. Queue up videos to play on TV. One Channel [...]

Google’s store for Android mobile OS is getting a redesign. Google announced on Tuesday that it has started to roll out a new look for the mobile version of Google Play. Users around the world will see the new design as early as today, it will be rolled out to various markets and devices over the next few weeks. Out goes the text heavy interface, the app gets light colours, a clearer layout [...]

Google today released a ‘patent pledge’ which promises that Google won’t sue developers that uses their patents. The Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge  will initially see 10 MapReduce patents receive protection. MapReduce is a computing model for processing large data sets developed at Google, whose open-source versions  are now widely used. At Google we believe that open systems [...]

Apple has acquired WiFiSLAM which specializes in extending location data and positioning to indoor locations using Wi-Fi for “around” $20 million according to a report by The Wall Street Journal  that . WSJ also was able to get Apple to confirm the accquisition, but did not share its purpose for the company. According to the available description of the firm, the company has created technology [...]