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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.

Google is nearing a deal to pay US$22.5 million to settle charges related to its surreptitious bypassing of the privacy settings of millions of Apple users, reports “The Wall Street Journal” (http://macte.ch/bzOmw), quoting unnamed “officials briefed on the settlement terms.”

The fine is expected to be the largest penalty ever levied on a single company by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. It offers the latest sign of the FTC’s stepped-up approach to policing online privacy violations, coming just six months after “The Wall Street Journal” reported on Google’s practices.