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Ten companies, including several tech vendors, will support the open identity initiative, a pilot programme designed to help US residents more easily engage in open government, the companies announced today.
More than two dozen authors and publishers have filed an objection to a proposed settlement that would allow Google to digitise and sell millions of books, saying that the agreement ignores important privacy rights of readers and writers.
As the European Union examines a US deal between Google and publishers, the company made concessions oyesterday designed to address concerns its book digitisation project has raised in Europe.
A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors will give huge new advantages to students, minorities and disabled people, supporters said Thursday.
A worldwide outage of Google's Gmail online e-mail system on Tuesday was caused by a traffic jam on its servers, according to Google's official Gmail blog.
Google's Gmail e-mail service is currently down for a majority of its tens of millions of users, the company acknowledged Tuesday afternoon.
The Android Market probably produces less than US$5 million a month, despite a recent report that issued that estimate, one successful application developer says.
The latest worldwide statistics for search engine queries don't paint a pretty picture for Google competitors.
If Google digitizes the world's books, how will it keep track of what you read?
The developer of one of the Google Voice-related applications yanked from the iPhone App Store last month isn't buying Apple Inc.'s explanation to the Federal Communications Commission.
Google's Search Appliance can now be used to search documents stored on Salesforce.com, the company said on Wednesday on its enterprise blog.
Microsoft, Amazon.com and Yahoo plan to join a consortium to fight a proposed settlement Google has made with authors and publishers over its Google Book Search service, according to a report published in The New York Times.
Google has added a social-networking component to its iGoogle personalized home page service that will allow users to do things like share YouTube videos, play Scrabble and maintain joint to-do lists.
Google has reached an agreement to buy video compression technology vendor On2 Technologies in a stock deal worth about US$106.5 million, the companies announced.