Three Google executives were convicted of privacy violations Wednesday in Milan, Italy. The Google executives involved in the lawsuit are: Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, and the now retired Chief Financial Officer George Reyes....
According to Google Trends, Google's online search monitoring system, the most popular Super Bowl Ad at the moment is the Dockers Free Pants Super Bowl Commercial Ad. That might have something to do with the fact that the commercial has a bunch of guys walking around in their underwear. What...
Many consider Google to be the most powerful company in the world. In many parts of the globe, Google basically controls the way information flows. Given Google's importance to the modern economy, it should come as no surprise that the United States federal government would view an attack against...
It's amazing how major brands allow themselves to fall from grace. Whether it's Microsoft releasing a consumer-unfriendly operating system, a company like Old Spice not paying its bills on time, or a company like Toyota having to suspend sales of 8 car models, there's just something about the...
Google AdSense is Google’s advertising program that was officially unveiled to the public in 2003. Google, in this program, would act as the middleman, providing a service for both a large number of advertisers and also an equally large number of web sites. Google AdSense works quite simply....
A googleganger is a creative description for a person who researches his name in Google’s search engine and finding one or more people who have the same name. Inputting one’s name and running a search on one’s name in Google is the origin of the practice that has led to the creation of the word...
Google believes it should be able to offer its product Google Voice without molestation by regulations that apply to traditional telephone companies, simply because Google is a free Internet application. AT & T certainly does not think so, and it seems that at least some congressional...
Tech bloggers are nervous at the prospect of Google and Microsoft gaining real time access to the thoughts of Twitterers, but it's pretty apparent that Twitter has already been licensing the data to certain smaller startups all along. Twitter is in "advanced talks" with both Google and Yahoo. This...
Today Google is using A Standard 128 Bar Code for its logo. It's because its the 57th Anniversary of the patent that was issued on the original bar code. Every few days, Google is changing its logo to commemorate important events in history. Last week was the birthday of Gandhi, today it's all...
Today's Google logo is a bar code, that says "Google" in Code 128 which is a standard way of encoding strings of ASCII characters in a barcode. Today marks the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed a patent in October 1949, and...
