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Following tough action against Blackberry, security forces in India turn their attention to Google and Skype.
Following tough action against Blackberry, security forces in India turn their attention to Google and Skype.
Google is taking on net phone firms like Skype by offering free and cheap calls from its web-based e-mail service, Gmail.
Eric Schmidt says people will change their names to distance themselves from embarrassing content on the net.
Spain becomes the latest country to launch an investigation into the collection of sensitive wi-fi data by Google Street View cars.
About 100 protesters march on Google’s headquarters to denounce its open internet plan and urge it to honour its “don’t be evil” motto.
As Android phones become best sellers in the US, Google launches new voice command feature in latest challenge to competitors
Phone giant Vodafone has backed down in a row with customers over software updates for some Google Android handsets.
A malicious application that racks up premium rate charges on phones running Google’s Android operating system is found.
South Korean police raid Google’s Seoul office on suspicion the company had illegally collected users personal information.
Google and Verizon outline a joint proposal for an open internet but critics fear it could lead to a two-tier service.
Google will stop developing Wave, a product which the company said would transform the way people communicate online.
Blackberry launches a touchscreen mobile in an effort to challenge devices from Apple and those running Google Android software.
Shipments of Google’s Android mobile operating system have rocketed by 886% in the last year, figures suggest.
No “significant” personal data was grabbed by Google when it snooped on wi-fi networks, says the UK data protection office.
The names of the Google engineers who wrote the code that scooped up data from wi-fi networks are being demanded by US states.
For Google a picture is worth more than a thousand words – it is worth one billion page views a day, claims the firm.
Google has released a suite of tools that let non-programmers create applications for Android smartphones.
China renews Google’s licence to operate in China, the internet giant says, ending a long-running stand-off between the two.
YouTube is targeted by hackers who used the site to bombard people with fake pop-up messages and links to adult sites.
Google pays $700m for travel technology firm that provides flight price and travel data across the globe.
Google announces a “new approach” in China as it battles with Beijing over the censorship of internet search results.
Pakistan is to monitor seven leading websites including Google and Yahoo for content it considers offensive to Muslims.
The UK police will investigate Google as part of an increasing number of investigations over its data breaches.
An early look at wi-fi data ‘accidentally’ gathered by Google in 30 countries suggests it contains sensitive information.
A.G. Seeks to Determine Whether Data Collection of Michigan Wi-Fi Locations Violated State Privacy Laws
The search firm will likely face prosecution for collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks, says Privacy International.
Australia orders an investigation of Google for possible breach of privacy while taking pictures for its Street View service.
The search giant says it is close to resolving issues that prevented it from passing data it gathered to German authorities.