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Google says when Microsoft’s products fail, it wields patents

Published on: 12th November, 2011

Google’s patent counsel, Tim Porter, said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle that the currently in use system of patent registration for software was mainly to blame for the series of lawsuits started by Microsoft and other companies against the Android operating system. As Porter said, the current law allows Microsoft to use [...]

T-Mobile and Google try to prevent Android hardware ban by ITC

Published on: 8th November, 2011

T-Mobile and Google attempted to prevent a possible ITC ban on HTC Android hardware with answers to ITC’s (International Trade Commission) requests for input on the win of Apple in the trade controversy before the hearing on the 6th of December. T-Mobile intended to deny an eventual ban regardless of whether the ruling upheld infringement [...]

Movie rentals added by Google to Android Market in the UK

Published on: 8th November, 2011

Android devices in the United Kingdom will benefit from Google’s expanded film rental service. Owners of Android phones and tablets are now able to rent movies from the Android Market. Google will initially offer a selection including 1,000 titles. Users who want to watch videos on an Android tablet or phone have to download Google’s [...]

Google Chromebooks with only one-year subscription plans

Published on: 8th November, 2011

Google recently revealed some changes to its subscription model for schools and business for its Chromebook. Feedback from organizations like businesses and schools determined changes in the three-year plans, transforming them in one-year cycles meant to match better their annual budgets. However, three-year plans continue to be available. The organizations are now allowed to pay [...]

Google executive specially appointed to integrate Motorola

Published on: 8th October, 2011

Google is said to have appointed an executive with the specific mission of integrating the newly acquired Motorola. Margo Georgiadis, Groupon COO, became Americas president, while the current president Dennis Woodside would work directly with Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s CEO. He will report directly to both Larry Page, Google’s chief, and CFO Patrick Pichette. According to [...]

Google Propeller to carry AdSense ads and pay-only articles

Published on: 29th September, 2011

The Propeller tablet application of Google may be imagined as a vehicle for the ad platform of the company. A recent rumor suggests that Google wants to help publishers and itself as well to profit from articles by using AdSense ads inserted into formatted articles. Sources from 9to5 say that publishers would be able to [...]

AIM chat and Google Talk integration is already working

Published on: 2nd July, 2011

Users of AIM have said that the expected integration of AIM chat and Google Talk is already working properly. Messages from AIM users can now go through and notice someone at a Gmail address. Google Talk users are also allowed to message someone’s screen name by attaching “@aol.com”. Messages skip any lag present in the [...]

Google in top of corporate reputations, Apple in fifth place

Published on: 12th May, 2011

The search giant has succeeded to replace traditional businesses in the top reputation among companies in the United States, according to Harris. Google pushed Berkshire Hathaway of Warren Buffett on fourth place. As the study reveals, Google has obtained top marks for the financial strength as well as the famous pampering Work environment. The company [...]

Google accused to spy on Twitter

Published on: 18th April, 2011

Serious accusations have been launched a few days ago saying that Google had a contact placed inside Twitter and slipping information necessary to escape the poaching of important employees such as Sundar Pichai, the Chrome lead. The contact is said to have access to data related to the recruiting process and informed Google early. According [...]

Rubin from Google denies tries to force anti-fragmentation

Published on: 13th April, 2011

Google’s vice president of Engineering and Android, Andy Rubin, vehemently denied claims related to his company’s fighting fragmentation in the mobile operating system. He stressed that Google did not believe in a universal solution and said that both tablet and phone designers were free to customize much of the operating system. Hardware partners considered quality [...]

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