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Gideon Sundback celebrated in a Google doodle

Gideon Sundback celebrated with an interactive zipper Google doodle on the search engine’s homepage. Photograph: Screengrab Google’s latest doodle, a giant zipper running down the centre of the search engine’s homepage, marks the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer most commonly associated with the development of the fastening device that revolutionised the clothing [...]

Oracle Vs. Google, Week One

ReutersOracle’s chief executive, Larry Ellison, center right, is pictured being questioned by Google’s lawyer Robert Van Nest during the second day of trial. It was Larry vs. Larry as two powerful chief executives of two of the most successful tech companies squared off in court in person. The rare appearance of two chiefs squaring off [...]

Google ‘entertainment device’ in the works: report

Google will reportedly soon jump into the consumer electronics market with a “home entertainment device,” according to the Wall Street Journal. The fabled device will first work as a wireless music streaming unit, but could later be updated for other purposes. Currently, Google does not make any electronics of its own. Of course, the Internet [...]

Big Brother? Google’s new privacy policy creates one massive database of your most private info

  Don’t bother trying to opt out — you can’t Ever since George Orwell wrote his novel 1984 over sixty years ago, people have been on the look out for the all-knowing Big Brother. But few would have expected the role of Big Brother to be assumed by search giant Google, but a new privacy policy has people wondering [...]

Google TV Gliding into Europe in 2012

EDINBURGH – Google Inc. reportedly will begin to launch his own TV service in Europe, early 2012. This is expressed by Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt as reported by Reuters on Sunday (28/08/2011). Google TV service, which lets users access the Web and television content through a browser on the TV screen, has actually been introduced [...]

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