Google has launched a new wireless cell phone service Project Fi that switches between Wi-Fi and cellular networks and will be hosted through Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon. Project Fi will work across multiple networks and seamlessly pick any of the networks that give the fastest and Continue Reading
The European Union has charged Google with market abuse in online shopping. It is said that Google is promoting its own shopping comparison services over its rival products. The commission has claimed that Google gave more importance to its own ads which in turn results to an abuse of its dominant position in search. Moving […]Continue Reading
The Turkish court has threatened to ban Google unless it removes al its links to images of a hostage being held at gunpoint. The images shown were those of a prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz with a gun being held on his head by a masked attacker. The gunmen who took Mr. Kiraz as hostage are […]Continue Reading
Google just got sued by a resident of Sevastopol in Crimea, a region which acceded to Russia from Ukraine last year. Sevastopol’s Leninsky district court accepted the claim given by Dmitry Mishin who stated that the internet giant incorrectly implemented the US president’s executive order when it suspended certain services in Sevastopol. Mishin demands restoration […]Continue Reading
Google services are being disrupted in China ahead of this week’s 25th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, a censorship watchdog said on Monday.GreatFire.org said in a blog post that the government appeared to have begun targeting Google Inc’s main search engine and Gmail, among many other Continue Reading
While political alliances are yet to firm up for 2014 polls, the Election Commission (EC) has already entered a key partnership with US-based internet giant, Google, to help it manage online voter registration and facilitation services ahead of the democratic exercise. Over the next six months, Google will offer EC its resources, including its search […]Continue Reading
Google’s India’s Year End Zeitgeist report revealed that the city of Mana is amongst the favorites of the Indian net surfers this year as it turns out that it is the most Googled for city in 2013 beating. Events such as Dilsukhnagar twin blasts which killed 17 people and injured more than a 100, the […]Continue Reading