BEIJING: Google on Friday said Beijing has renewed the license it needs to continue operating a website in China, securing the search giant’s foothold in the country’s fast-growing Internet market despite tensions over censorship. The renewal of the license to provide Internet content had been in doubt due to the rocky relations between Google and [...]
Productivity likely took a precipitous drop on Friday as office workers discovered an animated, playable version of Pac-Man in Google’s logo on its home search page. The company unveiled the logo, a Pac-Man maze oriented around the word “Google,” on Friday morning to commemorate the game’s 30th anniversary. Pac-Man, developed by Namco and released in [...]
(CNN) — Microsoft made a major leap skywards this week with the release of a cloud-based version of its Office software to businesses called Office Web Apps. But can it dominate cloud-based computing or will new giants emerge? Microsoft’s new product launch counters what many tech commentators thought the preeminent software company would never do. [...]
Google Inc.’s effort to offer Internet access at speeds 100 times faster than those available today raises the bar for U.S. cable and phone companies as the government readies a national broadband plan. “They’ve just defined the new minimum,” said Reed Hundt, who was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 to 1997 and [...]
Acer Inc., the world’s No. 2 computer vendor, said stronger-than-expected sales of its Google Inc. Android phone, named Liquid, have led to shortages of the device. “Liquid is doing much better than our expectation,” Gianfranco Lanci, president of the Taipei-based company, said in an interview yesterday. “This is why we’re a little bit short of [...]
