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By Jane, on May 7th, 2012% 
Google is again facing a new case, but this time they are not defending it, instead they are ready to pay the penalty.
The Mountain View, California-based Google is said to be negotiating with the FTC regarding the penalty or how much they have to pay for breaching the Safari Internet browser that Apple Inc. made, according to a person who is knowledgeable about the matter.
The fine could possibly reach over $10 million dollars, according to the person, who refused to be acknowledged for the reason that negotiations are private. The penalty will be the very . . . → Read More: FTC Fines Google for Breaching Safari
By Jane, on May 5th, 2012% 
A federal court in San Francisco reported it had came to a partial judgement in the lawsuit filed by Oracle accusing the internet giant, Google, of taking their technology without permission for the well-known Android smartphone. Still in the process of coming to a certain decision, the hearing will continue in the future for further investigations and the jury was sent home.
In the lawsuit, Oracle says Android operating system of Google replicated components of the Java programming language created by Sun Microsystems, a company acquired by Oracle in January 2010 for $7 billion. The lawsuit states . . . → Read More: Oracle Against Google Lawsuit; Partial Verdict
By Jane, on May 1st, 2012% 
Once again, Google is facing another lawsuit because of the Auto-complete feature.
Many French anti-discrimination agencies filed a lawsuit against the popular search engine for apparently proclaiming unpermitted and systematic associations involving celebrities along with their “Jewishness” by Google’s auto-complete feature, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
SOS Racisme, a French anti-racist NGO, as well as several anti-racism organizations are scheduled for a hearing on Wednesday for a lawsuit which claims that Google is “overseeing the creation of what is probably the biggest Jewish file in history” with auto-complete suggestion feature that connect well-known individuals, for instance . . . → Read More: Google Once Again Sued for Auto-complete Feature
By Jane, on April 25th, 2012% 
Tuesday – Mozilla launched an update for the latest version of Firefox 12, which comes with “silent updates” – a feature that updates the browser without prompting or bothering the user anymore – among other improvements.
Mozilla first assured silent update feature for the Firefox 13, however the feature makes its way into the latest release today.
“Firefox simplifies the update process for Windows users by removing the user account control dialog (UAC) pop-up while maintaining the security of your system,” according to a blogpost from Mozilla. “Once a user gives explicit permission to Firefox on their . . . → Read More: Firefox 12 with Silent Update Feature from Latest Release of Mozilla
By Jane, on April 24th, 2012% 
A couple of news appeared today saying that the social network giant, Facebook, spent aroun $550 million to acquire 650 patents held by Microsoft. The purchase came after what appeared to be and even larger acquisition of IBM for 750 patents for an undisclosed amount.
It appears that the IBM patents that Facebook bought are not really important to the social network giant as the ones once held by AOL that Facebook purchased from Microsoft today.
In the amended S-1 of Facebook, which it filed with the Security and Exchange Commission today, the company stated that they . . . → Read More: Facebook Spent $83 Million for IBM Patent Acquisition
By Jane, on April 23rd, 2012% 
For some who logs in to Facebook using their phones running on Android, you should now update the app to version 1.9 and enjoy the new features that it brings.
To begin with, there’s a handful of performance related enhancements which have improved the feel of the interface and also have made it much less laggy. It is now faster and smoother. Should your smartphone hasn’t received the update option yet, you may manually navigate to the official Facebook app through the Google Play Store and click or rather press update.
Some improvements include:
Users can now . . . → Read More: Facebook Update for Android Running Smartphones
By Jane, on April 18th, 2012% 
Users of Google’s Gmail service once again stumbled on some errors preventing them from accessing their email accounts on Tuesday afternoon but as soon as the search engine giant received the report, it was fixed right away.
“The problem with Google Mail should be resolved,” according to Google in a note on its Apps Status Dashboard. “Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.”
The search engine giant first identified the issue around 12:40 p.m. EST, stating that . . . → Read More: Gmail Service Interruption Now Resolved
By Jane, on April 16th, 2012% 
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is seeks to fine the search engine giant Google Inc. $25,000 because of not cooperating with the investigation into the company’s gathered personal data through wireless networks.
Google impeded and delayed the probe for a couple of months, which involved, SMS, e-mail, as well as other private information obtained in association with Google’s Street View location service, based on an FCC filing on April 13.
Having a market value reaching $203.5 billion, Google protected its intervention with the agency.
“We worked in good faith to answer the FCC’s questions throughout the inquiry, and we’re . . . → Read More: FCC Fines Google $25,000 for Not Cooperating to Investigation
By Jane, on March 27th, 2012% 
Once again, the internet giant – Google – is facing a lawsuit, but not against a company or another search engine but a Japanese man claiming to be defamed by the search engine.
A Japanese found out that if he searched his name into Google search engine, a lot more than 10,000 various suggestions appeared because of this autocomplete feature. This feature is apparently connecting his identify to illegal and criminal acts. He contacted Google regarding this matter but the internet giant declined to his request to remove many of these autocomplete suggestions, the Japanses . . . → Read More: Japanese Man Sues Google for Autocomplete Feature
By Jane, on March 19th, 2012% 
As internet browsers keep on competing for the top position in the web browser market, Mozilla released an update to Firefox recently to include a new element.
Reported earlier this week by Mozilla on their official blog, Firefox 11 released to people and added an upgrade to the add-on syncing tool.
Although Firefox has presented syncing of bookmarks, preferences, open tabs, page history, and passwords between pc’s when linked with one account, Firefox users still needs to download again the add-ons on other computers. But if Firefox 11 is installed on a new . . . → Read More: Mozilla Rolls Out Thunderbird 11 and Firefox 11
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