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U.S. regulators will require Google to pay a civil penalty of US$22.5 million to settle charges that it bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple’s Safari browser, reports “Reuters,” quoting two unnamed “people familiar with the matter.”

Members of the Federal Trade Commission voted to approve a consent decree that will allow Google to settle the agency’s investigation but admit no liability, the article adds. An official announcement is expected within days, according to the “Reuters” sources. You can read more at http://macte.ch/u9r55 .

Google wants several Apple iPhone patents to be considered industry standards. Yeah, good luck with that.



According to a “T3” report, Google has appealed to have a selection of Apple-held telecommunication patents that are utilized in the iPhone to be made standardized systems due to their generic nature and industry wide use. In a letter to the US Senate Judiciary Committee, Google’s counsel Kent Walker has raised concerns over a selection of Apple’s proprietary technologies and put forward the idea that such tech sound be standardised and made freely accessible to all.

Google has acquired Sparrow, the company behind the popular iOS and OS X email client, reports “TechCrunch” (http://macte.ch/QCvi2). Sparrow CEO will be joining Google’s Gmail team “to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google.”

Sparrow says its applications will continue to be available for the time being. However, “TechCrunch” says that, according to an email the company sent to its users, there won’t see any updates to the apps anytime soon.