A significant majority of Americans are troubled by recent revelations that Google's Street View cars gathered communications from home WiFi networks, and they want stronger legal protection to preserve their online privacy, according to a national opinion poll released today by Consum...

Search engine optimization is an absolute must for any business. It’s a low cost way of generating sales and in building credibility. Quite simply, SEO has been the single most effective new small business marketing tool to come out within the last 15 years. However, SEO does pose ce...

Google said Friday and China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology confirmed Sunday that the company’s Internet Content Providers (ICP) license to operate a web site inside the country has been renewed for another year. The Wall Street Journal quoted a dissident as saying t...

The European Commission’s new antitrust czar Joaquin Almunia indicated Wednesday that Google may face a full-blown investigation into charges brought a few months ago by Microsoft, British price comparer Foundem and French legal search engine ejustice.fr alleging that Google had demote...

The Chinese government has yet to decide whether to renew Google’s Internet Content Providers (ICP) license to operate a web site inside the country. It’s been a week now since the license expired and Google submitted paperwork proposing to scotch the regime’s censorship with an int...

Google's quixotic and poorly executed attempt to do business in China on its terms rather than the Chinese government's has suffered another serious setback. Google's Internet Content Providers (ICP) license to run google.cn expired on Wednesday and the Communist regime told the compa...

Google, in its attempt to challenge Microsoft’s PC dominance, has moved up the market entrance of its cloud-based Chrome operating system from 2011 to late fall, less than six months from now according to reports out of the Computex show in Taiwan quoting Sundar Pichai, the Google VP i...

Google is reportedly ripping out whatever Windows desktop infrastructure it had at its Googleplex headquarters because of the IP-stealing hack it suffered late last year that caused it to move out of Red China proper and set up an uncensored Chinese search shop in Hong Kong. The Fi...

HP said first thing Tuesday morning that it will cut another 9,000 jobs over the next three years, take a billion dollars in restructuring charges, invest another billion dollars in its EDS-swollen services business and hire 6,000 people in sales and delivery. The job losses, part o...

Consumer Watchdog on Wednesday called on the state attorneys general to investigate Google's WiSpy snooping in their respective states to determine what state laws were broken. "While the activity is likely a violation of federal laws, we believe there is a good possibility it also ...

Google Tuesday released what it called a stable release of the Chrome browser for both Linux and the Mac. It’s the first peek at the Linux and Mac widgetry out of beta, finally catching it up to the Microsoft-harrying version of Chrome for Windows. The Tuesday release of all three ...

Google, the self-proclaimed "don't-be-evil" company, is following the classic corporate evil-doer's playbook as it attempts to quell worldwide outrage over the WiSpy scandal, Consumer Watchdog said today. The Internet giant's new report claiming that it generated $54 billion in econ...

A licensing outfit called MonkeyMedia endowed with a 100 patents created by its founder Eric Bear has sued Apple in the Western District of Texas charging that the Mac OS X and Safari browser infringe three patents collectively known as the Seamless Contraction patent family. The IP co...

Google says its YouTube property, five-years-old on Monday, is getting upwards of two billion views a day, up from one billion in October and “nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major US television networks combined.” It also has the second most popular search engine in...

The nonpartisan, nonprofit public interest group is launching Inside Google to educate the public and opinion leaders about Google's dangerous dominance over the Internet, computing and consumers' online lives. Inside Google's blog is authored by experienced consumer advocates and jou...

Having alienated carriers like Sprint and Verizon by trying to sell its Android-based Nexus One phone direct to the consumer from its google.com/phone online store - Google's attempt to change the traditional cell phone sales model - it's killing the four-month-old store, describing it...

Google said Tuesday that it means to buy Norway's publicly traded VoIP codec house Global IP Solutions Holding AB (GIPS) for $68.2 million cash, a move that could put it in contention with Skype not to mention the telecom companies that are selling its phones. The deal, which repres...

The Federal Trade Commission, supported by members of Congress, Microsoft and public interest groups, may object to Google’s proposed $750 million acquisition of AdMob, the mobile advertising start-up. Bloomberg said that the FTC’s staff is recommending that the agency file an antitr...

Google lost market share in China in the first quarter after it threatened to stop censoring its search results. According to Beijing-based Analysys International it went from 35.6% to 30.9% while rival Baidu went from 58.4% to 64%, picking up most of the difference. Whether this is th...

Google, which has got more secrets than the CIA, has just bought that mystery outfit Agnilux that the PA Semi guys who didn't fit into Apple - or picked up their winnings from Apple's $278 million 2008 acquisition of PA and moved on to the next crap game- are supposed to have started. ...

Three weeks ago Opera was beside itself because its downloads had more than doubled and in some European countries tripled, a factor laid mostly to the advent of the antitrust-required Microsoft ballot screen that’s forcing choice on European IE users. Now it’s complaining (again) to...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has told the Federal Communications Commission that it can’t make broadband providers treat all the Internet content and services traveling over their networks the same. Comcast, the big cable company, challenged the FCC’s right ...

Google is apparently staring down the muzzle of a Federal Trade Commission investigation of its proposed $750 million AdMob acquisition. Bloomberg says the agency is taking sworn statements from Google, its competitors and advertisers, suggesting that the regulator could turn it to cin...

Consumer Watchdog filed a Freedom of Information Act request today with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy seeking copies of email between Internet Policy chief Andrew McLaughlin and his former employer, Google Inc. The nonpartisan, nonprofit consumer group mad...

Having failed to persuade Red China to let it operate in the country unfettered by self-censorship – like the smart money figured would happen – Google today made good on its January 12 threat and stopped censoring its Chinese site. Instead it’s redirecting the traffic to servers in Ho...

Five days ago, to celebrate the relaunch of their nearly four year old social shopping site, dealspl.us announced plans to reward one lucky Twitter user with a brand new car. By simply retweeting a special message by April 5th, 2010, users would be entered to win a new Ford Focus. Sinc...

Tim Bray declined Oracle's offer, in the wake of the Oracle-Sun acquisition, to remain an employee in the newly merged Sunacle/Orasun. And has joined instead what he calls the "No-Evil Zone," a.k.a. Google. As he succinctly expresses it, on his blog dated Monday March 15, his first ...

Google's reportedly admitting that it's met somebody that's bigger, tougher and even more dominance-minded than it is, namely the Chinese government, which isn't going to let a little thing like Google leaving the country come between it and a censored Internet. Whatever talks Googl...

“Soon” is the timetable for Google and China to come to terms over censorship, according to what CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters Wednesday at a media conference in Abu Dhabi, a country also known to black out news on occasion. Schmidt said Google was in active negotiations with the Chi...

Microsoft only started distributing its newfangled Ballot Screen last week to give Europeans an antitrust-correcting choice of browsers when Opera claimed it was already seeing a tripling of its downloads in western Europe and Poland because of the thing and then Mozilla told the New Y...

The European Commission figures over 100 million (doubtlessly utterly confused) European Windows users will be exposed to the browser-bearing Ballot Screen that Microsoft is being made to circulate offering alternatives to Internet Explorer to settle the EC’s latest antitrust action. ...

Microsoft has done unto Google what Google and its CEO Eric Schmidt did unto Microsoft – in fact Eric did it at least twice – before Google he was CEO of Novell – and that’s to complain to the regulators – sometimes unsolicited, sometimes because it was asked. Google’s public respons...

Local business listing give the local business and the small business the opportunity to tap into the local consumers that they rely on for their revenues. Local business listings are showing up on the first page of search results as well as on mobile search when the local consumer is ...

The European Commission has opened an investigation of Google after receiving complaints of anticompetitive treatment from three European Internet companies, at least two of which are connected to Microsoft, as Google is quick to point out. The sites accuse Google of unfair ranking...

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and IEEE, the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology, on Friday announced they are j...

On2 Technologies on Wednesday announced that its stockholders approved the merger of On2 with a wholly owned subsidiary of Google Inc. at its Reconvened Special Meeting held earlier today. On2 stockholders holding in excess of a majority of the outstanding shares of On2 Common Stock...

Alan Moran on Wednesday launched F5 Networks "new media" topic on Ulitzer. Alane Moran is the Sr. Director of Corporate Communications at F5 Networks. Through her interaction with industry pundits, journalists and partners around the globe, Alane works to convey F5’s unique value pr...

Comodo has announced its new Internet browser, Comodo Dragon. Like Google Chrome, Comodo Dragon is constructed on the open-source Chromium Project browser. Dragon's enhancements increase security and protect user privacy. Comodo Dragon offers a new feature for Internet users. Websites ...

Google Buzz "new media" topic launched on Monday on Ulitzer. Google Buzz is a social integration and messaging tool by Google, designed to integrate into the company's web-based email program, Gmail. Shared links and messages show up in the user's inbox. Buzz focuses on integrating ...

Risking the fire-breathing wrath of Apple, Opera plans to preview an unsanctioned version of its browser for the iPhone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. Cautiously, it’s not going to show it off to just anybody, only partners and the press. How Apple will react in d...