Google argues UK privacy laws do not apply to it
The company is facing a landmark group legal action by Britons angry over the way it circumvented settings on the iPhone to track their web usage. Google has already been fined a record $ 22.5m (£14.4m) by authorities in the United States over the practice.
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Google patents 'pay-per-gaze' eye-tracking that could measure emotional …
Advertisers spend heaps of cash on branding, bannering, and product-placing. But does anyone really look at those ads? Google could be betting that advertisers will pay to know whether consumers are actually looking at their billboards, magazine …
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Google total eclipse sees 40 percent drop in Internet traffic
You couldn't even Google it. Worldwide Internet traffic reportedly plunged by about 40 percent Friday night, when many of the tech titan's services, including its trademark search engine, went dark for between 1 and 5 minutes. "That's huge," Simon …
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Fashion industry embracing Google Glass more than any other vertical?
zdnet-google-glass-vogue-september-issue. For an ultra-nerdy piece of gadgetry that has spawned some awfully geeky Tumblrs, one of the most highbrow (not to mention elitist) industries is arguably embracing Google Glass more than the rest. That would …
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Google, Microsoft outages: Two different outlooks?
I have no adoration toward any of them, but if there's one thing that's hard not to admit, it's that most of Google's tend to work a little better than anyone else's. Which made me wonder how last week might have proved that point. Microsoft's Outlook …
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