Google and Skype face India ban

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Following tough action against Blackberry, security forces in India turn their attention to Google and Skype.

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Google’s Gmail offers free calls

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Google is taking on net phone firms like Skype by offering free and cheap calls from its web-based e-mail service, Gmail.

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Google boss warns on social media

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Eric Schmidt says people will change their names to distance themselves from embarrassing content on the net.

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Spain investigates Google wi-fi

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Spain becomes the latest country to launch an investigation into the collection of sensitive wi-fi data by Google Street View cars.

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Net neutrality protest at Google

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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.

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Android ‘voice action’ launches

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As Android phones become best sellers in the US, Google launches new voice command feature in latest challenge to competitors

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Vodafone backs down in Android row

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Phone giant Vodafone has backed down in a row with customers over software updates for some Google Android handsets.

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Virus writers hit Android phones

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A malicious application that racks up premium rate charges on phones running Google’s Android operating system is found.

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Police raid Google Korea offices

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South Korean police raid Google’s Seoul office on suspicion the company had illegally collected users personal information.

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Google and Verizon map ‘open net’

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Google and Verizon outline a joint proposal for an open internet but critics fear it could lead to a two-tier service.

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Google signals the end for Wave

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Google will stop developing Wave, a product which the company said would transform the way people communicate online.

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RIM launches touchscreen Torch

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Blackberry launches a touchscreen mobile in an effort to challenge devices from Apple and those running Google Android software.

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Android phone shipments explode

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Shipments of Google’s Android mobile operating system have rocketed by 886% in the last year, figures suggest.

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Google cleared of wi-fi snooping

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No “significant” personal data was grabbed by Google when it snooped on wi-fi networks, says the UK data protection office.

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Google pressed on wi-fi snooping

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The names of the Google engineers who wrote the code that scooped up data from wi-fi networks are being demanded by US states.

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Google images top 1bn page views

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For Google a picture is worth more than a thousand words – it is worth one billion page views a day, claims the firm.

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Google debuts Android code tools

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Google has released a suite of tools that let non-programmers create applications for Android smartphones.

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China renews Google web licence

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China renews Google’s licence to operate in China, the internet giant says, ending a long-running stand-off between the two.

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Google acts to fix YouTube flaw

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YouTube is targeted by hackers who used the site to bombard people with fake pop-up messages and links to adult sites.

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Google moves into travel market

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Google pays $700m for travel technology firm that provides flight price and travel data across the globe.

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Google in ‘new approach’ on China

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Google announces a “new approach” in China as it battles with Beijing over the censorship of internet search results.

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Pakistan in web ‘blasphemy’ hunt

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Pakistan is to monitor seven leading websites including Google and Yahoo for content it considers offensive to Muslims.

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UK police to investigate Google

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The UK police will investigate Google as part of an increasing number of investigations over its data breaches.

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French quiz Google on wi-fi data

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An early look at wi-fi data ‘accidentally’ gathered by Google in 30 countries suggests it contains sensitive information.

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A.G. Seeks to Determine Whether Data Collection of Michigan Wi-Fi Locations Violated State Privacy Laws

Google accused of criminal intent

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The search firm will likely face prosecution for collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks, says Privacy International.

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Australia orders probe of Google

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Australia orders an investigation of Google for possible breach of privacy while taking pictures for its Street View service.

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Google close to handing over data

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The search giant says it is close to resolving issues that prevented it from passing data it gathered to German authorities.

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