Google recently released an interesting set of data showing that mobile phone owners are mostly using which Android operating system. Gingerbread (and in particular versions Android versions 2.3.3 – 2.3.7) make up a dominant 58.6 percent of handsets while its latest flavour — Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) — accounts for one percent of phones. The data was taken...
In an ongoing tug-of-war between Microsoft and Google over Google’s new single policy – the software giant today (PT) makes its “Gmail Man” video official in privacy fight against Google. Microsoft has first announced that the Redmond-based computing giant will be placing a series of ads in the US press this week, as it seeks to “remind people of the alternatives.”...
A French commercial court on Tuesday slapped a fine of 500,000 euros (approximately $660,000) on Google France. The complaint was lodged by Bottin Cartographes against search engine giant French division – Google France and against the parent company Google Inc. on account of providing free web mapping services to some businesses. “This is the end of a two-year...
Yesterday, Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President, Corporate Communications at Microsoft, has announced that the Redmond-based computing giant will be placing a series of ads in the US press this week, as it seeks to “remind people of the alternatives.” The alternatives he is pointed in the post against the Google’s “one big policy” – merging Google’s all 60 different policies into one, resulting into a single big product. Google has responded back in its blog post “Busting myths about our approach to privacy.” The...
Carpathia Hosting – the Virginia based company that has leased servers to the Megauplad today in collaboration with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) has started a new website, megaretrieval.com, to collect the stories of legitimate users who want access to their current-inaccessible files stored with accused Megaupload. “The Electronic Frontier Foundation...
Google Finance – since its launch in 2006 made a premier mark for all those who are seeking real-time stock quotes and information. Google’s division provided users’ with the tools to monitor market changes, manager their portfolios, and make better investment decisions. The Google Finance Team announced that it would be adding the same real-time technology for the London Stock Exchange (LON), Deutsche Börse (FRA), and Borsa Italiana (BIT), to better track economic and financial developments in Europe. The team first introduced...
Internet search engine giant Google has reportedly fired its Kenya country manager, Olga Arara-Kimani over a recent data poaching scandal. Mocality had conducted a sting operation that revealed Google employees had been undermining its business in the country by accessing the database and contacting clients – claiming to work with Mocality. South African site News.com reported the news of Arara-Kimani’s termination on Tuesday morning. The company apologised, but also stated that it would investigate the conduct of its Kenyan unit...
Google made an announcement earlier that within a month’s period, is gearing up to change its current privacy policy – merging its all 60 different product policies into one, resulting into a one single big product. Once you opt-in you can’t stop using all Google products Pointing on this which results into a series of storms of question including the group...
Marketing analysis firm eMarketer reported the rise in search ad spending with Google as the major player in the market. The firm estimates search spending will rise 27% to $19.51 billion. By 2016, search ad spending will approach $30 billion, following slower but consistent growth between now and then. Google’s revenues, among the top four search sites, grow most...
The content sharing site Megaupload which was down by feds earlier this month by feds on the account of copyright infringement – there is no way the company can pay to Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc to store its users’ data. Earlier the data on the site could be erased as soon as Thursday, February 2. The site contains millions of...
