18 February 2013 Last updated at 12:19 ET Regulators spent nine months investigating Google’s data collection practices EU watchdogs plan to take action against Google by this summer over the web giant’s current privacy policy, French privacy regulator CNIL has said. Since March, Google has been combining data from across its sites to potentially better … Continued
EU regulators unsatisfied with Google’s response to privacy policy concerns
European Union regulators weren’t exactly content with Google after it rolled up most of its privacy policies into a monolithic document early last year, and it doesn’t seem like that’s about to change. After giving Page and Co. four months to respond to 12 recommendations regarding its new policy, French regulator CNIL has come to … Continued
EU regulators unsatisfied with Google’s response to privacy policy concerns
European Union regulators weren’t exactly content with Google after it rolled up most of its privacy policies into a monolithic document early last year, and it doesn’t seem like that’s about to change. After giving Page and Co. four months to respond to 12 recommendations regarding its new policy, French regulator CNIL has come to … Continued
Google challenges Russia video ban
13 February 2013 Last updated at 13:32 ET YouTube has had to block several clips from being accessible in Russia Google has filed an appeal with a Russian court challenging the country’s inclusion of a YouTube video on an official blacklist. The clip shows a woman using make-up and a razor blade to make it … Continued
Switched On: Battling for the Bronze
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. More Info Windows Phone 7.8 hands-on Nokia is hooked on Windows Phone, now has to pay for it Editorial: Betting on BlackBerry (or hoping) Apple and Google, the latter riding on a Samsung partnership, continue to play an escalating game of units versus … Continued
Google aiming to build $82 million aircraft facility at SJC, probably launch more Project Glass demos from it
It’s no secret that Google has an interest in the automotive industry, but over the years the popular search engine has also managed to amass quite the collection of aircrafts. So much in fact, the company is in the process of inking an $82 million construction deal that would bring its fleet to Mineta San … Continued
Google patent application reveals Glass-like device with bone-conduction audio
As we’ve heard before, Google’s Glass project features are “still in flux” — could one be a bone-conduction speaker? It very well may, at least according to a US patent application published today. The gadget, described as a “wearable computing device with indirect bone-conduction speaker,” appears to be similar in structure to Glass. It includes … Continued
Google adds ARM support to Chrome’s Native Client
Google’s Native Client endowed x86 machines with the ability to run apps compiled from C and C++ right inside Chrome in 2011, and now ARM devices are finally getting their time to shine. Mountain View’s latest Native Client SDK adds support for ARM hardware, and tweaking existing Native Client apps to run on the architecture … Continued









