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Google Inc. has agreed to pay a record US$22.5 million civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it misrepresented to users of Apple’s Safari Internet browser that it would not place tracking “cookies” or serve targeted ads to those users, violating an earlier privacy settlement between the company and the FTC.

In addition to the civil penalty, the order also requires Google to disable all the tracking cookies it had said it would not place on consumers’ computers.  

Apple and Google have joined rival investor groups hoping to nab Kodak’s patent portfolio. The groups are offering warm-up bids of between $150-$250 million, reports “The Register” (http://macte.ch/Cgu28).

Kodak plans to sell its patents as part of a bankruptcy reorganization in New York. However, Apple claims it owns 10 of the patents in Kodak’s portfolio.

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.