There’s been a lot of discussion of late about how Apple’s iPhone remains the most profitable smartphone around, despite fierce competition from Android. That’s relevant for companies like HTC and Samsung that sell Android phones. But Google has a different agenda with its freely available operating system: driving usage of its own services. That was [...]
Google’s engineers famously spend 20 per cent of their time on what the company calls ’20 per cent projects’ – off-the-wall ideas that are ‘personal’ technologies. Some of these are highly surreal, ‘blue sky’ projects – and not all of them work. Google Inc has abandoned an ambitious project to make renewable energy cheaper than [...]
Google Inc has turned on the music at its new online store, aiming to wrest the lead from Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc in audio entertainment distribution despite the absence of a major record label. Google Music, with more 13 million songs, will be integrated with Android Market, the company’s online store for smartphone apps [...]
Opponents of a bill designed to protect the rights of film companies and music labels say it could be perverted to censor the Internet in the United States. Hearings in the House of Representatives on the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) began Wednesday, sparking a campaign by dozens of companies to keep the bill from [...]
Despite having been launched by Google as a new ‘social network’ just over 100 days ago, the senior Google executive said in response to a question from The Telegraph: “Google+, for us, is not a social network,” he stated. “It is a platform which allows us to bring social elements into all the services and [...]
Got a moment to kill? Try this: Go to Google’s homepage. Type in the words “Do a barrel roll.” Click Enter. (Brief pause while you try it. Then please come back.) Did the Earth move for you? The image in your browser should — well, it should have done a barrel roll. Is it a [...]
Spreading its industry tendrils yet further afield, technology titan Google has this week unveiled ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’, the next full iteration of its market-leading Android operating system. Beyond being given its formal reveal during a media event in Hong Kong, version 4.0 of the new mobile software platform was showcased via Samsung’s latest Galaxy Nexus [...]
On Thursday, Page said Android is “going gangbusters” and Google does not “see anything that’s going to stop that”. Companies suing Android manufacturers over use of the mobile operating system will only hurt themselves by doing so, he added. “While there’s been lots of people trying to attack that and so on, we see absolutely [...]
Google has launched its mobile payments technology, Google Wallet, making it available to the public via an application which can be downloaded from a United States mobile phone network. Google Wallet is vying to replace credit cards with phones containing a special chip with Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, which can be tapped against readers [...]
(Reuters) – Google Inc has agreed to pay $500 million to settle a probe into ads it accepted for online Canadian pharmacies selling drugs in the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday. The advertisements led to illegal imports of prescription drugs into the country, the Justice Department said. The forfeiture is one [...]
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