Microsoft has filed an antitrust complaint against Motorola Mobility with the European Commission on grounds that it is unfairly leveraging its patents, it announced on a company blog today.
The move comes hot on the heels of Apple’s decision last …
The repercussions keep rolling in from the Wall Street Journal’s expose that detailed how Google was bypassing the default privacy settings on Apple’s Safari browser in order to place tracking cookies that followed users around the web. Matthew Soble, an …
Microsoft has gone after Google before in ads attacking its search and Gmail products, but today the big M has launched a new off-kilter commercial showing off Google Apps’ biggest weaknesses.
The video, titled “Googlighting,” portrays the Google Apps productivity …
Fluent, a new email client created by three ex-Google employees, makes your inbox look like a mix of Facebook and Twitter.
We get it, going through hundreds of emails is not nearly as exciting as commenting on your friends’ statuses …
Microsoft is leveraging an outcry over Google’s approach to privacy to smear its rival in the press. It released a blog post yesterday that claimed to have fresh findings about how Google circumvents privacy protections in Internet Explorer to place …
Google is working on a possible password-managing tool for future versions of its Chrome browser. ArsTechnica found details of the interesting project on the Chromium Project site.
Much like the popular 1Password software from AgileBits, the Chrome feature would generate, …
Microsoft published a post on its Internet Explorer Engineering Team blog today calling out Google for bypassing Internet Explorer’s privacy settings.
Last Friday, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that Google has been bypassing privacy settings set by users …
Using your hands is so 2010. Voice-activated controls may be on the way for Google TV, according to a patent filed by the company last year that was recently discovered.
Patently Apple has found a filing by Google that lays …
Google is preparing to build a huge antenna farm in Iowa, just a few hundred miles from Kansas City, where the company is rolling out its high-speed Internet project, Google Fiber.
The search company, which lately has been focusing on …
Google has acquired what’s left of Cuil, a once-promising search startup that closed up shop about a year and a half ago.
The startup, which was founded by two former Googlers and an IBM employee, has relinquished control of its …
New York-based startup MightyMeeting has its sights on boosting mobile productivity in the enterprise. In keeping with the growing trend of using tablets to do work, MightyMeeting is unveiling a collaboration app called MightyTeams for the iPad and Android tablets.…
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Apple is making a big deal about how its newly-announced Mountain Lion operating system comes with built-in iCloud syncing and storage. But if you cut through the deafening hype, iCloud is still a woefully limited solution that most consumers and …
Welcome to another edition of yellow journalism with Julia Angwin of The Wall Street Journal. The reporter who brought you the “What They Know” series has caught Google with its pants down. The WSJ found that Google managed to …
Google’s long-rumored cloud storage solution, Drive, has been spotted on one user’s account. Not surprisingly, it looks about the same as Google Docs and a handful of the company’s other online services.
A reader forwarded the above screenshot to Geekwire, …
We’re one step closer to widespread availability of self-driving cars — at least, if you live in Nevada.
The state passed regulations for self-driving cars today that were approved by insurance companies, car manufacturers, police, and others, reports Physorg. The …
Apple is no stranger to the patent wars, and today it actually won two disputes in Germany against Motorola Mobility for its “slide to unlock” patent.
It is a familiar tale: one company is mad at the other for infringing …
Sensing slow momentum with Ice Cream Sandwich and a growing push for Microsoft’s Windows 8, Google might launch Android 5.0, a.k.a. Jelly Bean, in the second quarter of 2012, according to Taiwanese publication DigiTimes.
Based on its previous launches, it …
Facebook will soon begin rolling out verified accounts for high-profile members with large numbers of subscribers, and it will give verified users the option of a pseudonym for their name.
Verified accounts were first introduced on Twitter in 2009 and …
While Google maintains its dominance in search, despite big efforts by Yahoo and Microsoft, there appears to be room for young upstarts to grow. DuckDuckGo has doubled its traffic from 500,000 searches a day in December of 2011 to 1 …
Google has reopened its Google Wallet prepaid card option, after shutting it down due to two security vulnerabilities that let someone in possession of your phone access your prepaid funds even if you’d cleared all of your data from the …
