Smart Phone Patent Fights Continue

Google, Amazon and Starbucks face questions on tax Businessweek In sometimes bitter exchanges at a three-hour parliamentary committee hearing, legislators questioned Starbucks, Google and Amazon about the amount they pay to the U.K. government in taxation. Lawmakers scoffed as Troy Alstead, Starbucks global chief ... See all stories on this topic »

Google, Acer launch $199 Chromebook USA TODAY (blog) The Acer 7 Chromebook comes just a few weeks after Google and Samsung launched a $249 Chromebook with 16GB of SSD storage and a Samsung Exynos 5250 processor. The new machines will be available starting tomorrow in the U.S. through Google ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Maps Navigation finally live in Singapore CNET After teasing us for years, and a false start which made my heart sing and then croak,Google has issued an official-looking letter which positively states that the company will update Google Maps (probably server side) to make Google Maps Navigation ... See all stories on this topic » CNET

Google's Nexus 10: To buy or not to buy? Computerworld (blog) Recommending Google's new Nexus 4 was easy. The phone is fantastic -- and while it won't be the right device for everyone, its first-class user experience and tremendous value put it in a league of its own. Google Nexus 10 With the Nexus 10, things are ... See all stories on this topic » Computerworld (blog)

Google hit with $208K fine over alleged defamation CNET In court, a jury agreed with Trkulja, saying that although Google didn't own the links potentially tying Trkulja with organized crime figures, the company was responsible for displaying them. Judge David Beach, who ordered the fine, also agreed with ... See all stories on this topic »

China Blocks Google Access for 12 Hours The New American Google reported a dramatic drop-off in its traffic to sites in China for about 12 hours Friday, November 9, into Saturday morning. According to Google's Transparency Report, which monitors traffic to Google's sites around the world, all of its services ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Said to Face Ultimatum From FTC in Antitrust Talks Bloomberg Google Inc. (GOOG) is being pressed by U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jonathan Leibowitz to offer to resolve the agency's antitrust investigation in the next few days or face a lawsuit, two people familiar with the matter said. Google has been ... See all stories on this topic » Bloomberg

YouTube's Original Channels Are A Risky Bet, But Google Doubles Down Huffington Post YouTube, the video-sharing site that got so big from hosting amateur videos that Google bought it for $1.65 billion in 2006, is doubling down on its risky bet to be the place for original, TV-quality programming online. On Thursday, the website told ... See all stories on this topic »

Analysis: Google's Android finally earns respect with developers Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The mobile video game Kingdoms at War is popular with owners of Apple Inc's iPhone and Google Inc's Android smartphones alike. But for the game's maker, there is a very important difference - it earns more than double the ... See all stories on this topic »

Microsoft, Google to do battle over patent royalty rates Computerworld Google inherited this lawsuit when it bought Motorola Mobility last year, and a Googlespokeswoman said the company declined to comment on it. Microsoft called it "an important issue for consumers and industry" and said it was glad of the chance to ... See all stories on this topic »

Starbucks, Amazon and Google to face UK lawmakers over tax Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - UK lawmakers will quiz executives of Starbucks (SBUX.O), Google (GOOG.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) on Monday about how they have managed to pay only small amounts of tax in Britain while racking up billions of dollars worth of sales ... See all stories on this topic »
Google Outage Shows Business Risks in China Wall Street Journal BEIJING—Disruptions to Google Inc.'s Web-search and email services in China over the weekend underscore the uncertainty surrounding Beijing's effort to control the flow of information into the country, as well as the risks that effort poses to the ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal
As Apple's Battle With HTC Ends, Smartphone Patent Fights Continue New York Times Apple has shut down one front in what Steven P. Jobs, the company's late chief executive, once described as a thermonuclear legal war against Android, Google's mobile operating system. But a wider truce in the patent battles engulfing the mobile ...蘋果過去對宏達電提出的專利侵權訴訟，幾乎都是針對宏達電的Android平台手機，但蘋果昨只宣布與宏 達電達成和解，而非Google Android陣營所有手機廠商。也就是說，蘋果與三星的專利訴訟將持續進行；今年八月二十四日美國加州法院陪審團裁定，三星侵犯蘋果六項專利，需賠償 十．五億美元，三星還在上訴中。也因此，市場分析，蘋果與宏達電達成專利訴訟和解的目的是「抓大放小」，既可藉此打擊三星氣勢，又可獲得宏達電的專利權利 金報酬。 See all stories on this topic »
Google hit with $200000 damages bill over Mokbel shots Sydney Morning Herald However, the jury found Google's defence of the images broke down because it did not take any steps to remove the images from its searches once Mr Trkulja's lawyers contacted the company. The jury found the search engine was not liable for the search ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald
Top China Stories from WSJ: Bank Strains, Xi Jinping, Google Outage Wall Street Journal (blog) Google Outage Shows Risks in China: Disruptions to Google's search and email services in China over the weekend underscore the uncertainty surrounding Beijing's effort to control the flow of information into the country. (Free). Shifting Landscape ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal (blog)
Google Nexus 4 vs. Apple iPhone 5: Android 4.2 vs. iOS 6, Battle at its Best PC-Tablet Google has recently launched latest Nexus phone in collaboration with LG – Nexus 4, which comes with the latest Android 4.2 Jelly Bean version in it. And on the other hand, Apple has also launched iPhone 5 over a month ago with latest iOS 6 which comes ... See all stories on this topic »
An Antitrust Brain Teaser for Google Wall Street Journal Google is famous for the brain teasers it uses to test job applicants. These include, "A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune—what happened?" And, "What's the next number in this sequence: 10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66, __?" After last week's ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal
Google more successful than Gallup at predicting Obama win Examiner.com Move over Gallup, Google may soon replace you in the polling business. In a polling success study released by NYT statistician Nate Silver yesterday, Google Consumer Surveys blew the lid off polling stalwart Gallup, scoring highest among firms ... See all stories on this topic » Examiner.com
Google's browser tough love Sydney Morning Herald (blog) Google's browser support philosophy of “one version behind current” is about to come into force. Google Apps will discontinue support for IE8 on November 15. Internet Explorer 8, released in March 2009, was seen by many as Microsoft's first attempt at ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Bram Stoker, his Google Doodle and the Gen X vampire mania Examiner.com When you saw last Thursday's Google Doodle, were you mystified or did you scratch your head in puzzlement? Halloween was definitely over but what's up with the scary “vampirismic” logo? Was that modern technology doing a curtsy to ancient genius? Yup. See all stories on this topic »