Google faces privacy investigation in Canada
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has started an investigation into Google's collection of data from unsecured wireless networks, the office said in a statement on Tuesday.
Data protection authorities in France, Italy, and Germany are already investigating Google's Street View service, after the company said last month that its camera cars mistakenly collected data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks while compiling images of city streets for its Google Maps site.
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AT&T announces tethering details and new plans for iPhone, iPad
AT&T on Wednesday announced significant changes to the company's U.S. wireless data plans that will affect how much iPhone and iPad users pay for mobile Internet access. The company also provided new details about iPhone data tethering for customers in the U.S.
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AMD shields Fusion demo from Intel's spies
Advanced Micro Devices gave reporters a first look at its upcoming Fusion processors on Wednesday in a demonstration calculated to reveal as few specifics about the chips as possible, lest the information fall into the hands of rival Intel.
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Security researchers to demo malicious rootkit for Google Android
Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious "rootkit" program they've written for Google's Android phone next month at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas.
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Intel expects first Moorestown phones in early 2011
Intel expects the first phones based on its Moorestown platform to be available early next year, and tablet PCs before that, it said Wednesday.
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Microsoft counters report of Google's dumping Windows
On the heels of a report that Google will phase out Windows in its workplace over security concerns, Microsoft on Tuesday stood up for its operating system.
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Google refutes criticism about Android fragmentation
An Android engineering team member earlier this week lashed out at critics who spread fears of fragmentation in the Android mobile phone market
In a blog post, Dan Morrill, a member of the engineering team for the Google-led Android project, also detailed efforts to ensure compatibility on the Android software platform, which was unveiled in November 2007 and now features more than 60 models.
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Google Chrome OS slated for fourth-quarter release
Google plans to release its Chrome operating system late this year, initially targeting laptop users, the head of the project said Wednesday.
The Chrome OS "will be offered to users in the fourth quarter," said Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, during a speech at the Computex electronics exhibition in Taipei.
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Project aims to halve cost of a data center
The island partly responsible for slashing the cost of personal computers has set its sights on the cloud, seeking to halve the price of the massive data centers required for the growing world of online services.
Taiwan's publicly funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) aims to create standards for building data centers inside 20-foot (6.1-meter) shipping containers, an idea popularized by Sun Microsystems in 2006 with its Project Blackbox.
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Google's security excuse for dumping Windows is bogus, say analysts
If a report is accurate and Google is urging its workers to dump Windows because of security concerns, the company's rationale is bogus and disingenuous, analysts said today.
The experts were reacting to a story published Monday on the Financial Times' Web site that cited several unnamed Google employees who said the company is phasing out the use of Microsoft's Windows operating system because of security concerns.
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Nvidia CEO: Hardware makers choose Android for tablet OS
Hardware makers will unite behind Google's Android as the primary operating system for tablet computers, according to Nvidia's CEO.
Tablets are shaping up to be one of the highlights of the annual Computex show in Taipei, where hardware makers are showing off their latest products and prototypes. Most manufacturers are expected to show off tablets, with some designed to run Android and others Windows. But Windows isn't the best choice for a tablet, said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at Nvidia.
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Bing gives Microsoft search credibilty -- and pushes Google
A year after Microsoft launched Bing, the product has returned Microsoft to credibility in the search market, and appears to have prompted renewed innovation at Google.
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WSO2 debuts cloud platform for apps
WSO2 is debuting on Tuesday an enterprise open source cloud platform, WSO2 Stratos, for application deployments.
Billed as a hosted platform-as-a-service offering, Stratos enables IT professionals to deploy applications and services on private or public clouds. Capabilities are featured for portal, enterprise service bus, and application server capabilities, WSO2 said. Identity management and governance are provided also.
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