An admission that Google’s StreetView cars were gathering private information from WiFi networks shows the company’s lack of concern for privacy and the need for government inspection of the data the company is collecting and storing, “Consumer Watchdog” (http://www.consumerwatchdog.org) says.
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SMEStorage (http://www.smestorage.com/), a multi-cloud data access provider, has released the second beta of a Mac Cloud Drive that enables up to 10 commercial storage providers to be accessed directly from a virtual drive in Mac Leopard and Snow Leopard Operating Systems.
Read MoreA decision due this week on whether to prevent Google from purchasing the AdMob advertising network has been postponed because of complications created by Apple’s aggressive foray into online advertising, according to a report in the “New York Times” (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/technology/12google.html).
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The Apple-Google competition just gets more interesting. Google has purchased startup firm Agnilux, a San Jose company founded by a number of defectors from P.A. Semi, the chip company Apple bought in 2008, according to a “peHUB” report (http://www.pehub.com/69556/google-buys-stealth-hardware-startup-agnilux/).
On April 22, 2008, it was made public that Apple had agreed to buy a boutique microprocessor design company called PA Semi for US$278 million. The company was known for its design of sophisticated, low-power chips.
Read MoreIt’s April Fools day, and if you didn’t catch it yet … Google has renamed itself “Topeka”. Why? If you didn’t catch it on the news a while back, Google is looking for communities to do experimental deployment of 1GB Fiber networks at a competitive price for consumers. Over 1100 cities applied, many with some creative video appeals on YouTube (see Westlake Village’s 2 minute video as an example at http://youtube.com/watch?v=rw1f4UJOd2E).
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