Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Android devices potentially vulnerable to data leaks

Millions of smartphones that uses Android software promoted by Google are susceptible to leak data to criminals looking to launch an impersonation attack, according to a team of security experts at the University of Ulm in Germany.
The Daily Mail reported that the security experts’ team found that hackers can tap into the transfer of information [...]

Microsoft-Google battle heats up in Court

The Chief Executive of Microsoft vowed to “kill Google” in an expletive-laden tirade against the firm, as per US court documents filed by Google.
This claim was made in a sworn statement by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft employee who quit for Google in 2004.
From News.BBC.co.uk:

In his sworn statement, Mr Lucovsky – a key Windows architect [...]

Online Advertising hits new high

The Internet climb ahead of newspapers for advertising revenue for the first time, according to PricewaterhouseCooper’s annual report for the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
The annual report revealed that advertisers spent $26 billion in 2010 on online marketing.
From Gigaom.com:

Search continued to be the most popular buy — bringing in more than $12 billion in revenue and accounting [...]

300 engineers to be hired by Google

Google Inc, the global Internet search giant, has announced hiring plans for 300 people to strengthen Hyderabad as its largest cloud computing research and development centre in the world and double its engineering headcount in India.
Google is planning to recruit 300 engineers in a couple of years for increasing its presence in India with emphasis [...]

Officials Question Google

Google is now being questioned for its trust and loyalty it gives to the website owners. The issue is about the way Google deals with the users and the other the website owners to make money. As one of the biggest search engine optimization site, Google needs to be trustworthy enough especially to the online [...]

Secure Gmail Passwords

Google now holds a good record to keep people’s email accounts secure enough with the codes and the new technology. It has now kept a two step code action where a secure password is sent to the mobile phones before logging on the computers.
From timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

Google is making it tougher for computer hackers and other imposters [...]

Angstro acquired by Google

Angstro, a startup that sorts news and information across social networks such as Facebook, has been acquired by Google Inc. according to a spokesman for the leading web search provider.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has announced partnerships with Facebook and Twitter for offering real time search results.
From Economictimes.indiatimes.com:
Palo Alto-based Angstro has developed applications to find [...]

Bing and Wolfram Alpha – New Search Engines

If you think that Google and Yahoo are the only two most-searched of all search engines, it is time for you to know about Bing and Wolfram Alpha. This YouTube video is a must-see for every marketing executive and business owner striving for marketing on the web besides attaining more value out of efforts and [...]

US lawmakers fear of privacy laws by Google

Three US lawmakers have expressed concerns tat Google Inc may have violated U.S. privacy laws and want to know much of personal data was collected by the company by its project to photograph streets across the country and how this data will be used.
California Republican Rep. Joe Barton, California Democrat Henry Waxman and Massachusetts Democrat [...]