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Google accuses Apple of ‘hostile, organised campaign against Android’

by Kenny Hemphill on 4 August 2011 in News

Google has attacked Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle for imposing what it calls a patent ‘tax’ on Android customers.

In a post on the Official Google Blog, David Drummond, the company’s senior vice president and chief legal officer, said that Android’s success had ‘yielded something else: a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.’

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Google takes on Facebook by offering users more control

by Kenny Hemphill on 29 June 2011 in News

Google has unveiled the latest weapon in its battle with Facebook, a social networking tool called Google+. The new tool is designed to provide users with more control over how they share information with friends than its rival.

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Apple and Google to attend Senate hearing on mobile privacy

by Kenny Hemphill on 26 April 2011 in News

Apple and Google will answer questions about the way their mobile operating systems collect user data at a Senate sub-committee hearing on 10 May. Entitled ‘Protecting Your Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy,’ the meeting will be chaired by Democratic senator, Al Franken.

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YouTube takes step towards HTML 5 video with WebM uploads

by Kenny Hemphill on 20 April 2011 in News
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Google has announced that all new uploads to YouTube will be transcoded in the WebM format. In a blog post yesterday, YouTube software engineer James Zen explained that ‘We’ve already transcoded videos that make up 99% of views on the site or nearly 30% of all videos into WebM.’

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Is Android shutting up shop?

by Kenny Hemphill on 15 April 2011 in Analysis

You may have noticed that the iPad 2 became available outside the US recently. Apparently there were one or two people milling around outside Apple retail stores waiting for it to go on sale at 5pm one Friday afternoon. Despite the huge, pent-up demand for Apple’s latest tablet, however, it enters a world very different [...]

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Google bans itself from own search engine results after complaint

by Kenny Hemphill on 9 March 2011 in News

Google has banned one of its own properties from the results on its search engine. On Monday Google acquired British financial comparison site BeatThatQuote.com for a reported £37.7 million. On Tuesday, following a complaint from search engine optimisation company, SEOBook, the site was penalised and dropped out of site in Google’s search engine rankings.

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