By Greg Mills
Dear readers, I have been busy writing a textbook on the process of invention using the new Apple App “iBooks Author” and have been spreading my tech articles around with various publishers. When I read things about Apple that bug me, I sit down a write about it … therapy of sorts. When that happens, my friends at MacNews and MacTech lend me a soap box to express my views.
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Consumer Watchdog (http://www.ConsumerWatchdog.org) — a non-partisan public interest organization with offices in Santa Monica, CA and Washington, D.C — says it welcomes reports confirming that the Federal Trade Commission and European regulators are investigating Google for violating the online privacy choices of consumers using the Safari web browser on Apple computers, iPhones and iPads.
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According to a “Bloomberg” report (http://macte.ch/XWNV0), the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has subpoenaed Apple as part of its antitrust probe of Google, seeking info on how the computer maker uses the search engine on the iPhone and iPad.
The agency’s request for documents includes the agreements that made Google the preferred search engine on Apple’s mobile devices, according to the article quoting unnamed “people familiar with the matter.” Google rivals such as Microsoft have criticized these agreements as anticompetitive.
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The original Apple evangelist and entrepreneur, Guy Kawasaki, has a new book: “What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of US” (http://www.guykawasaki.com/what-the-plus/). The US$2.99 ebook is available on iTunes and for the Kindle.
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The U.S. Circuit Judge overseeing the patent dispute between Apple and Motorola Mobility has ordered the latter to provide the former with details of Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition as well as information about the development of Android, reports “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com).
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