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Cassidy: Google's Vint Cerf worries about WCIT and the Internet he helped create San Jose Mercury News As you might guess, Google's (GOOG) Vint Cerf is watching the unfolding international debate over Internet regulation with more than a passing interest. Think about it: The guy invented the Internet. OK, ever since Al Gore, we know it's not quite so ... See all stories on this topic » Microsoft Scroogled Site Challenges Google Shopping Honesty InformationWeek It's a word invented by Microsoft to describe what it says Google is doing to users of its Google Shopping tool: It rips them off by limiting search results to paid advertisers only. According to Microsoft, the unbiased relevance listings Google ... See all stories on this topic » FTC should proceed with case against Google Huffington Post (blog) When you stare down a $220 billion corporation, it's hard not to blink. But if the Federal Trade Commission doesn't deliver on its ultimatum to Google that it settle its antitrust problems soon for real relief or face prosecution, then consumers will ... See all stories on this topic » Google buys parcel storage service BufferBox Computerworld IDG News Service - Google has bought some more storage, but not the digital kind. The company has acquired BufferBox, a Canadian startup that offers temporary storage lockers where people can receive online purchases when they're not at home. See all stories on this topic » Google, Twitter restart speak2tweet in wake of Syria blackout CBS News Google and Twitter have restarted their Speak2Tweet service to let people disseminate voice messages over Twitter as a way to sidestep Syria's Internet blackout. The Speak2Tweet service got its start during Egypt's Internet blackout in February 2011 ... See all stories on this topic » This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs CNET Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs. Google's evolving database of the relationships between people, places and things gets a new dose of medicine. Casey Newton. by Casey Newton. November 30, 2012 4:45 PM PST Follow @CaseyNewton ... See all stories on this topic » Google Counters Amazon's Storage Price Cuts InformationWeek Google's Durable Reduced Availability service offers the same level of latency as Google's regular storage, but availability might be delayed as the service undergoes a peak of demand. DRA might be suitable for data backup that can wait briefly or for ... See all stories on this topic » Google Drive Gets Gmail Attachment Support, Mobile Spreadsheet Editing TIME Google has brought a couple of much-needed features to Google Drive, including a solution for the age-old dilemma of how to send extremely large files. Gmail users who've opted into the new compose message style may now insert files directly from ... See all stories on this topic » TIME Google maps island that doesn't exist USA TODAY The island on Google maps that doesn't actually exist: A sizable, uninhabited island shown in the South Pacific on Google Maps and other charts does not exist, according to Australian scientists. Scientists noticed an isle called Sandy Island by Google ... See all stories on this topic » Microsoft said to speed Windows upgrades to rival Google Washington Post 30 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. plans to overhaul how it develops the flagship Windows operating system in a strategic shift aimed at keeping pace with nimbler rivals Apple Inc. and Google Inc., people familiar with the matter said. Microsoft aims to ... See all stories on this topic » US, Europe to Huddle on Google Probes Wall Street Journal The top U.S. and European antitrust officials leading separate probes of Google Inc. are set to meet in Europe next week, according to people familiar with the matter, amid indications that the two investigations may not conclude at the same time. See all stories on this topic » Google Nexus 4 sold out again? Yes and no... Computerworld (blog) [Google] put their LG Nexus 4 smartphone up for sale...for the second time in two weeks, and it sold out...as fast as the first round. ... The Play Store became almost unusable...as it was experiencing a heavy load. ... Google updated their shipping ... See all stories on this topic » Computerworld (blog) Microsoft: Google Shoppers Get 'Scroogled' InformationWeek Google makes no bones about the program. "This new product discovery experience will be called Google Shopping and the transition will be complete this fall," the search giant stated in a recent blog post. "We believe that having a commercial ... See all stories on this topic » Survey: Google Play gains on Apple App Store PCWorld When it comes to which mobile application store to support, developers can factor in that Apple's App Store has the edge in volume, but Google Play -- the combined Android and HTML5 app store -- is on a growth spurt. Revenues from apps sold in the ... See all stories on this topic » PCWorld Google stresses free, open Internet as Syria goes offline CBS News Syria has gone offline and, as of right now, the country is cut off from the rest of the world. Even as questions over how long Syria will remain blacked out loom, the future of the Internet is set to be negotiated in a meeting that could result in ... See all stories on this topic » CBS News Google exec rips Facebook as social net of the past Computerworld Bradley Horowitz, a vice president of product for Google's social network, Google+, took to the stage at Business Insider's Ignition conference in New York on Wednesday. When the conversation turned to Facebook, Horowitz came out swinging. See all stories on this topic » Google launches new site to guide veterans into civilian work force NBCNews.com (blog) To arm the new site with some heavy-hitting experts, Google partnered with three leading nonprofits in the veteran-employment space: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Hiring Our Heroes program, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, and Hire ... See all stories on this topic » Google Resists As German Lawmakers Talk Law That Would Require It To Pay ... WebProNews You may recall talk of a proposed law in Germany that would require search engines like Google to pay to license content from publishers in order to display headlines (with links) and snippets of text. Lawmakers in Germany are reportedly debating such ... See all stories on this topic » Google exec talks Amazon cloud price war: 'We are happy to compete' VentureBeat Amit Singh, president of enterprise at Google, is ready to fight. Amazon and Google traded blows this week, each lowering their cloud services prices in response to the other. Amazon, which held its own cloud conference this week, announced on ... See all stories on this topic » VentureBeat Google says it is cooperating with Italian tax audit while tax man claims ... Washington Post MILAN — Google says it has been working with Italian authorities on an audit of the tax it pays in the country, after financial police determined the Internet giant had undeclared earnings of €240 million ($311 million) from 2002-2006. Google issued a ... See all stories on this topic » Google opposes German push for search engines to pay newspapers Los Angeles Times Google has come out swinging against German legislation that would require search engines to pay for using snippets of newspaper articles, photographs and other media content. German lawmakers are slated to debate the legislation Thursday, one in a ... See all stories on this topic » Google-FTC settlement may be in the works Washington Post Google and federal officials are discussing a deal that would end nearly two years of investigation into claims of monopolistic behavior by the company without addressing the most serious charge — that it intentionally manipulates search results to ... See all stories on this topic » Microsoft ad blitz attacks Google over policy that lets money sway shopping ... Washington Post SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is trying to skewer Google as a lousy holiday shopping guide in its latest attempt to divert more traffic to its Bing search engine. The attack started Wednesday with a marketing campaign focused on a recent change in the way ... See all stories on this topic » Google's Nexus 7 4G: To buy or not to buy? Computerworld (blog) Whew! Some month we've had in Android Land, eh? The Nexus 4, Nexus 10, Android 4.2 -- it's enough to make even the most mentally stable tech-lover turn delirious. In a good way, of course (well, more or less). Lost in the shuffle of the pre-holiday ... See all stories on this topic » Computerworld (blog) Google Webmaster Tools Erroneously Reactivates Obsolete User Accounts eWeek Google has addressed a security hole affecting Google Webmaster Tools that gave users access to obsolete accounts they should not have been able to log into. News of the situation spread across the Web Tuesday night after reports surfaced about it on ... See all stories on this topic » eWeek Google hacked in Romania and Pakistan? Not quite NBCNews.com (blog) There were reports this past week that Google's Romanian and Pakistani portals, Google.ro and Google.com.pk, had been hacked. But if you're worried about the security of your Google account info, you can relax: By most standards, this was nothing like ... See all stories on this topic » Google buys Cambridge online marketing firm Boston.com Google Inc. has acquired Cambridge online marketing firm Incentive Targeting Inc., a five-year-old start-up that builds software for retailers to offer customers targeted promotions. Google confirmed the deal Wednesday afternoon, but did not disclose ... See all stories on this topic » Google Says Facebook is 'Injecting a Monetization Agenda' Into Intimate Moments Wired After playing second fiddle to Facebook for a year and a half, Google's “time is now,” says Google's social VP, citing what he calls the “Like-gate” controversy and a growing distaste for Facebook's advertising practices. Google VP Bradley Horowitz ... See all stories on this topic » Google Drive spreadsheet editing arrives for mobile users SlashGear Google Drive is a pretty convenient service for those who like to keep their documents online and easily accessible amongst multiple devices. It does have some limitations, however, that reduce its usefulness for some users, one of which was the ... See all stories on this topic » Google, Chamber of Commerce power career resource for veterans Washington Post (blog) The platform, called VetNet, features panels and workshops hosted through Google+ hangouts, a virtual feature of Google's social network allowing multiple users to video-chat with each other. As the hangouts are exclusively online, they can be accessed ... See all stories on this topic » Google Starts Public Campaign Against German Legislation Google began a high-profile campaign against German legislation that could force search engines to pay for linking to news articles. Google Says Proposed German Law Restricts Users Searches Businessweek While existing law prevents copying of articles, the new proposals, sought by German news publishers, “would place restrictions on even a 'snippet' of an article,” such as is commonly found in search results, said Simon Hampton, Google's director of ... See all stories on this topic » Google Chief Page Said to Meet FTC Over Antitrust Probe Bloomberg Google Inc. (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page met with U.S. Federal Trade Commission officials today in Washington as the agency moves to wrap up its 19-month investigation of the company's business practices, according to a person familiar ... See all stories on this topic » Google forcing reviewers to use real names PCWorld (blog) If you want to cheer or jeer for an app in the Google Play store, you'll have to do it with your real name from now on. Search giant Google has started requiring that anyone who submits a review at its online app store use their Google+ identity, or if ... See all stories on this topic » Google bug grants access to revoked Analytics and Webmaster Tools users SlashGear A fairly problematic bug is affecting Google accounts, granting revoked users access to the Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics they originally had access to. For example, a business that fired an employee and revoked his or her access rights may find ... See all stories on this topic » SlashGear Google integrates Gmail, cloud storage service Drive Computerworld The feature works like Gmail's forgotten attachment detector "so that whenever you send a file from Google Drive that isn't shared with everyone, you'll be prompted with the option to change the file's sharing settings without leaving your email," he ... See all stories on this topic » Computerworld With Google readying its own Nexus Chromebook, will it marry Chrome OS to ... ZDNet The China Commercial Times (Chinese language link) reports that Google has placed hardware orders with Taiwanese manufacturers Compal Electronics and Wintek to produce a Chromebook with a 12.85-inch touch display. Could this be the start of ... See all stories on this topic » ZDNet Google's Name Used in Bogus Report of $400 Million Acquisition HispanicBusiness.com The announcement hit the news wires early Monday morning: A brief news release claimed that Google (GOOG) had agreed to buy a little-known Wi-Fi company named ICOA for $400 million -- quite a premium for a company whose stock was trading for ... See all stories on this topic » Google Agrees With Microsoft That Apple Is Out of Touch Motley Fool Tech titans Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) may not see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, but here's one thing they can agree on: mutual rival Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) is out of touch. Apple may have made incredible strides over the ... See all stories on this topic » Proposed Remedies for Regulating Google, Part 1: When Fear Turned to Loathing Huffington Post (blog) Online search is the most important activity on the net after email, and it is the gateway to e-commerce, to information access, and to the efficient functioning of an online economy in a wired world. Deceptive behavior by search engine operators is ... See all stories on this topic » Google Gears Up Compute Engine for Cloud Fight E-Commerce Times Google is widening choices and cutting prices to take on Amazon in a battle for the cloud. "Amazon has a big head start here, but it's possible that Google can catch up," said Larry Carvalho, owner of RobustCloud. "Pricing is not going to be an issue ... See all stories on this topic » Google's Nexus 4 launch and the land of lost opportunity Computerworld (blog) As you've probably heard, Google sold out of the Nexus 4 -- both the 8GB and 16GB model -- within minutes of the phone's launch earlier this month. Selling out isn't the problem; that's relatively common with hot products in high demand. There's more ... See all stories on this topic » Computerworld (blog)
ICOA debunks report of Google acquisition deal #thecircuit Washington Post (blog) Earlier this year, Google announced it will sponsor access to Boingo hotspots around the country and, as TechCrunch reported, has lent its support to the push for public WiFi networks in the past. Cellphone privacy: Courts across the country have had ... See all stories on this topic »  ICOA Denies It Was Bought by Google Wi-fi provider ICOA denied it had been acquired by Google, after a statement posted on PRWeb.com said Google had purchased the company for $400 million.
Google Encourages Action Against UN Internet Proposals InformationWeek The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will be holding its World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai next month -- and Google contends that Internet censorship might be on the agenda. The Mountain View, Calif.-based ... See all stories on this topic »
Google-Branded Touch Chromebook Planned InformationWeek The Chinese language Commercial Times, based in Taiwan, has published reports indicating that Google awarded a touchscreen contract to electronics maker Wintek and that Compal Electronics will be responsible for assembling a Google-branded ... See all stories on this topic »
Google Joins Apple in Drawing French Tax Collectors' Indignation Bloomberg Google Inc. (GOOG), Apple (AAPL) Inc. and other Internet-linked companies may soon feel the long arm of the French taxman. In what may be Europe's first such effort, President Francois Hollande's government says it will look into changing laws next ... See all stories on this topic »
Google Street View Set for Launch in Indonesia Wall Street Journal (blog) The latest fleet of cars to hit Indonesia's roads will carry an unusual logo, but one that the country's wired population is more than familiar with: that of Google, as the Internet giant prepares to introduce Google Street View to the sprawling ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal (blog)
Google goes after Amazon with cloud upgrades ZDNet (blog) Summary: The extensive upgrades to Google's infrastructure-as-a-service cloud computing technology heighten competition with market leader Amazon Web Services. Jack Clark. By Jack Clark for Cloud Watch | November 26, 2012 -- 18:00 GMT (10:00 PST) ... See all stories on this topic »
Model predicts flu outbreaks seven weeks out using Google search data Los Angeles Times The researchers, Jeffrey Shaman of Columbia University and Alicia Karspeck of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., used data from the Google Flu Trends project, which keeps track of searches for flu-related topics and ties ... See all stories on this topic »
Google Type uses image search to generate fonts CNET (blog) Despite the name, Google Type isn't a real Google product. The site generates fonts based on Google image search, hence the name. You type in words, the site digs through image search and regenerates your text using image versions of each letter. See all stories on this topic »