Tagged: Google
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Google pleads the First – wants removal of gagging order on data requests News
19.06.2013 Citing the First Amendment, Google has petitioned the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national US security requests. In the... -
Google invests US$7m in bid to eradicate child abuse imagery online News
17.06.2013 Internet giant Google is to step up its efforts to eradicate child abuse imagery online and is investing US$5m as well as supporting organisations in the frontline fighting this...Categories: Web, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Search Engines, Search, Legal, Investments, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Apple reveals US law agencies made up to 5,000 data requests News
17.06.2013 In the fallout over revelations of the PRISM programme, technology giant Apple has said it does not provide any government agency direct access to its servers and revealed it... -
Weekend news round-up: Snoopgate fallout continues; Saudi Arabia to ban Whatsapp News
17.06.2013 The fallout over Edward Snowden’s leakage of sensitive information about US intelligence surveillance of the internet continues and tech giants are taking it upon themselves to... -
Google doodle celebrates Father’s Day in the form of storytelling slot machine News
16.06.2013 Google has unleashed another fantastic interactive doodle especially to mark Father’s Day. The interactive doodle on the Google homepage works by hitting the second ‘o’ in...Categories: Search Engines, Search, Multimedia, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Google to embark on epic Bloomsday ramble across the world News
14.06.2013 Internet giant Google is to mark Bloomsday this Sunday – the celebration of the day in James Joyce’s Ulysses when Leopold Bloom and Nora Barnacle sauntered through South Dublin... -
Google acquires sat-nav app Waze News
11.06.2013 Internet search giant Google has confirmed its acquisition of sat-nav smartphone app Waze. Terms of the purchase have not been disclosed. -
The technology business week: EU to give consumers powers to sue tech giants, digital products to generate most media income News
17.06.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Apps, Deals Done, Digital Media, Financial, Games/Entertainment, Internet, Legal, Mergers & Acquisitions, R&D -
First look: IDA Ireland's new global advertising campaign (video) News
13.06.2013 IDA Ireland, Ireland’s agency responsible for attracting major digital giants such as Twitter, Google and Facebook, is about to kickstart a global advertising campaign that... -
EU Commissioner Reding to take US to task over PRISM in Dublin this week News
12.06.2013 Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner, has added her voice to the chorus of questions directed towards the US Attorney General over revelations surrounding PRISM, the US... -
Google asks US govt to report full scale of NSA data requests News
12.06.2013 In a letter to the US Attorney General and the FBI, Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond has asked the US government to publicly reveal the full scale and volume of... -
Google vs Facebook internships (infographic) News
12.06.2013 Google and Facebook offer interns the kind of perks full-time employees at other companies would envy, a new infographic that compares internships at the two tech giants suggests. -
EU to give consumers powers to sue tech giants in anti-trust cases News
11.06.2013 A new proposal published today by the European Commission aims to give consumers the power to pursue legal actions against tech giants and cartels found to be behaving in an... -
Maurice Sendak’s 85th birthday and artwork celebrated in animated doodle News
10.06.2013 Cherished children’s writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak would have been 85 today and, to celebrate, Google has turned its homepage into an animated doodle based on some of... -
Weekend News Round-up: US cyber spying whistle-blower revealed; is Snapchat worth US$1bn? News
10.06.2013 The weekend’s tech news agenda was dominated by the fallout of the massive revelations around how US intelligence agencies have been spying on the servers of the top internet...Categories: Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Business Intelligence, Apps -
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg denies knowledge of PRISM News
08.06.2013 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed claims that the social networking platform cooperated with US intelligence bodies like the National Security Agency (NSA) in allowing... -
Nokia navigates toward a living and breathing interactive Big Data world map News
07.06.2013 Mobile phone maker Nokia is employing Big Data technologies to reinvent the map and develop a living and breathing interactive mapping system for cars and mobile devices that...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, R&D, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Digital Media, Digital Business, Data Management, Data Centre -
US intelligence mines data from nine internet giants, including Google and Facebook News
07.06.2013 Just a day after reports surfaced that the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US interpreted the Patriot Act in such a way as to seek phone records of millions of US citizens...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Internet, Data Centre, Computers, CommunicationsTags: YouTube, Skype, AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, National Security Agency, FBI, Barack Obama, Cyber security, -
Google to power Finnish data centre using wind energy News
05.06.2013 Google has signed a power purchase agreement with Swedish wind farm developer O2 that will see the search giant buy wind energy for 10 years to power its data centre in Finland. -
Google quickly updates policy to shut down porn apps for Glass News
04.06.2013 A change to Google’s Glass developer policy means that apps containing sexually explicit content are now prohibited – right when the first of such apps had launched on the...