IDG News Service - The patent injunction portion of Google's antitrust settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week won't mean an end to patent disputes between Google and mobile device makers, but it does take away one major ...
Tags: Google, patent, mobile device, computer information
IDG News Service - Google has quietly shut down a search function that helped users in China navigate past the country's censorship systems, after authorities had tried to block the feature. Launched at the end of May, the function worked ...
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IDG News Service - Move over, big-screen TVs, cell phones and tablets, because cars might steal the show at next week's International CES. As preparations for the annual electronics show approach their climax here, two of the most awaited ...
Tags: Toyota, Audi, CES, automotive technology, car
Sony has faced up to its recent failures and admitted it's forgotten how to "wow" an audience at the first official day of CES 2013 in Las Vegas today. "We used to make people say 'wow' all the time," announced a voiceover before the ...
Tags: Sony, USB 3.0 products, Computer Products
Smartphone shipments will pass the one billion mark in a single calender year for the first time in 2013,while the number in use could reach two billion,suggests research by Deloitte analysts. The study,which defines smartphone as a ...
Tags: smartphones, touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, Deloitte analysts, HTC
You can always find some gaming news at CES. And this year, that news isn't minor: Nvidia has announced a new hand-held gaming console called Project Shield that can run both Android and PC games. How does it do this? First, it's an ...
Tags: Nvidia, Consumer Electronics, Handheld Games
Google has agreed to change some of its business practices, including allowing competitors access to some standard technologies, to resolve a U.S. Federal Trade Commission antitrust complaint against the company. Google has also agreed to ...
Tags: Google, US FTC, antitrust case
The US has criticised a planned visit to North Korea by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, calling it ill-timed in the wake of Pyongyang's rocket launch last month. Mr Schmidt - whose company has the unofficial motto of "Don't Be Evil" - plans ...
Tags: US, North Korea, Google, Eric Schmidt
Google Android was the top smartphone platform with 53.7% share Samsung was reported as the handset manufacturer with the highest market share of 26.9%, an increase of 1.2% compared to August 2012. It was followed by Apple and LG, which ...
Tags: Google Android, smartphone platform, Samsung, November, 2012
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will host a press conference Thursday afternoon to discussion its investigation of Google for antitrust violations. The FTC press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz ...
Tags: U.S., FTC, investigation, Google, antitrust violations
Enterprises buying new mobile devices and investing in security and storage management will give IT spending a boost in 2013. Worldwide IT spending is projected to total US$3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2 percent increase from 2012 spending ...
Tags: mobile devices, security, storage management, IT spending, 2013
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt will join a humanitarian trip to North Korea that may take place as early as this month. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's trip to North Korean is called personal although he will travel ...
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PC World-Technology giants Google and Apple shared some holiday cheer and a little self-promotion online in the form of ads recently posted on YouTube. GoogleMobile's ad--a cheesy production that has garnered more than 125,000 ...
Tags: Google, Apple, Holiday Ads
IDG News Service-Samsung plans to launch its first cell phones this year based on Tizen,a Linux-based operating system that will principally rival Google's Android OS. Tizen is being developed by Samsung and Intel in part to reduce their ...
US regulators have closed a lengthy antitrust probe into Google, saying there is not enough evidence to show the internet giant manipulated its search results to harm its competitors. The Federal Trade Commission said it lacked a legal ...
Tags: US regulators, probe, Google, search results