Google has submitted a package of concessions to the European Commission (EC) as it attempts to avoid a fine following an antitrust investigation. Over the past two and a half years, European Union (EU) competition regulators have been ...
Tags: Google, mobile marketplace
The European Commission confirmed on Thursday that it has formally received a package of concessions from Google aimed at ending a two-year antitrust investigation. The Internet giant submitted detailed proposals at the end of January, ...
Tags: Google, Antitrust Remedies
Thousands of wireless IP cameras connected to the Internet have serious security weaknesses that allow attackers to hijack them and alter their firmware, according to two researchers from security firm Qualys. The cameras are sold under ...
Tags: Wireless IP Cameras, Cameras
Australians are falling further in love with faster internet, with more users downloading more data than ever before. Figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show record downloads in the last three months of 2012, with ...
Tags: internet, internet subscribers
Apparently, China's biggest search engine, Baidu Inc., doesn't just want to compete with Google in search. Baidu is reportedly working on its own computerized eye glasses - going head-to-head, you might say, with Google's Glass project. ...
Tags: Computer Products, Google Glass, Baidu
APPLE has issued an apology to Chinese consumers after government media attacked its repair policies for two weeks in a campaign that reeked of economic nationalism. A statement Apple posted in Chinese on its website on Monday said the ...
A trademark infringement lawsuit against Facebook over its use of "timeline" will go to trial before a jury, after a judge ruled that the company had failed to show that the trademark was generic or descriptive, or Facebook's use of it ...
Tags: Facebook, Computer Products, software
Microsoft today took another shot at rival Google, the target of its "Scroggled" campaign, with an April Fools' Day prank that turned its Bing search engine into a Google look-alike. (See our slideshow of how some sites are marking April ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Microsoft
SWEDEN'S language watchdog has accused Google of trying to control the Swedish language in a dispute over the definition of the colloquial term "ungoogleable". The Swedish version of the word "ogooglebar" made the Language Council of ...
The Swedish Language Council has removed "ogooglebar", or "ungoogleable," from its annual list of new words after pressure from Google to respect its trademarks. The term was included on the council's latest list of new words that have ...
Tags: ogooglebar, ungoogleable, new words
A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to punish Chinese Internet company Baidu for blocking pro-democracy works on its search engine. One legal expert said the case was more of a publicity stunt than an actual legal challenge to ...
Tags: U.S.Censorship, Baidu, Internet
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Textile Glass Fibers in Thousand Tons by the following End-Use Segments: Construction, Automotive, ...
Eleven complainants have sent an open letter to the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, urging him to formally charge Google with breaching competition law. “The Commission opened proceedings ...
Tags: Google, search engine, search manipulation
Tineka Smith caught up with Trevor Healy, CEO of Amobee, to talk about the growth of mobile advertising and what this means for the PC. Amobee is the mobile advertising company for the big guys. We drive mobile campaigns for very large ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, PC
Bing is incorporating more information from outside social networks such as Facebook and Twitter into how it displays search results involving people. The changes are designed to give users at-a-glance answers to their search queries ...
Tags: Bing, Facebook, Twitter Data