Google Inc. (GOOG) asked a U.S. judge overseeing the government’s lawsuit seeking to stop AT&T Inc. (T) from buying T-Mobile USA Inc. for a chance to contest the disclosure of its confidential data in the case.
Google has fixed 32 security vulnerabilities in its popular Chrome Web browser and in process released a shiny, updated version of Chrome.
Chrome version 14 was rolled out on Sept. 16, and updated to address security flaws in the previous version of the browser, which an attacker could use to perform several exploits against users, including spoofing URLs and injecting malicious code on infected systems, Google wrote on its Chrome blog.
South Korea's national spy agency has admitted that it monitored a Google Inc.'s Gmail account of a citizen accused of violating the national security law, a local newspaper reported Friday.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) received a court approval to monitor the Gmail account of Kim Hyung-geun, 52, to collect email evidences regarding his allegedly pro-North Korean activities, the Hankyoreh daily reported, citing a document filed with the Constitutional Court.
Google has announced the availability of Chrome 14 in the stable channel of Chrome releases. Chrome 14 supports the W3C-proposed Web Audio API, a high level JavaScript API for manipulating audio in web applications; examples shown by Google include a Drum Machine, four oscillator synth and a WebGL analyser and visualiser.
A federal judge threw out a small part of Oracle's Java lawsuit against Google on Thursday but allowed the bulk of the case to proceed.
Oracle sued Google last year, arguing that Google had violated its Java intellectual property by writing its own version of the Java virtual machine, called Dalvik.
The intellectual property landscape in the mobile industry has posed some challenges for Google's Android platform, pushing the company to seek patents to help defend Android against litigation from other major players. In addition to Google's landmark $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola, it turns out that the search giant has quietly been seeking out other sources of IP.
On its European Public Policy Blog, Google has announced that it is to provide an option for wireless access point owners to opt-out from Google's location services. The location of private Wi-Fi systems is used by Google, and other operators, as one means to help estimate a phone user's location for the delivery of some services. However, many data protection authorities in Europe have objected to the practice and Google's move is in response to these objections.
EU adoption of cloud services is being held back by inconsistent approaches to security in the laws of member states, Google has told the European Commission. The company’s submission is part of a public consultation that will help to shape future EU policy on a range of issues raised by cloud services, such as security and data protection.
A pair of security researchers have created their own version of the notorious Firesheep plugin to expose a data leak in the world's favourite search engine.
The proof-of-concept plugin exploits the use of unencrypted cookies by Google's Web History feature.
Armed with new patents transferred from Google, HTC has filed a new lawsuit against Apple and amended two previous legal complaints.
HTC filed the new lawsuit against Apple Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. HTC accuses Apple of infringing four patents in a range of products and services including Macintosh computers, iPhones, iPods, iPads, iTunes, MobileMe and iCloud.
