US states sue Google over app store
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 08 July 2021 11:52

US states sue Google over app store


Tame Apple Press rejoices

Thirty-seven US state and district attorneys general sued Google alleging that it bought off competitors and used restrictive contracts to unlawfully maintain a monopoly for its app store on Android phones.

Apple loves Google really
Published in Cloud
Friday, 02 July 2021 11:29

Apple loves Google really


Particularly on the cloud 

Apple executives have taken swipes at Google in the past over its privacy practices. But the iPhone maker trusts Google enough so that over the past year it has dramatically increased the amount of Apple user data it stores in Google's cloud

Former Googlers come up with a paid for search engine
Published in News


No wait, they might have something

Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan helped turn Google into an ad giant but now they are offering a paid-for search engine.

Google delays third party cookie phase out
Published in News


A year later than planned 

Google is announcing today that it is delaying its plans to phase out third party cookies in the Chrome browser until 2023, a year or so later than originally planned.

Google-paid politician angry that Microsoft is not a bad guy
Published in News


Wants Vole dragged into antitrust hot water

Republican politician Jim Jordan, who takes home lots of campaign funds from Google is apparently furious that Microsoft does not appear to be involved in any antitrust hot water.

Google moves to AMD on cloud
Published in News
Friday, 18 June 2021 11:24

Google moves to AMD on cloud


Cloud’s not too sexy for Milan

Google will offer cloud computing services based on AMD's newest data centre chip, Milan in a move likely to intensify AMD's push to grab market share from rival Intel.

Google wants to increase Linux security
Published in News


Moving to Rust

Google said it's funding a project to increase Linux security by writing parts of the operating system's core in Rust.

Google promises to remove third party cookies from Chrome
Published in News


At least in the UK

The UK’s competition regulator said on Friday it had secured commitments from Google about the tech giant's proposal to remove third party cookies from its Chrome browser.

Tech giants face tougher US laws
Published in News
Friday, 11 June 2021 11:22

Tech giants face tougher US laws


Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google subject to five bills

House Democrats are set to introduce a package of five bills as soon as this week that would prohibit tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google from discriminating against rivals or buying potential competitors.

Google comes up with a new way of chip floorplanning
Published in PC Hardware


Fung Sui for chips

Google boffins have come up with a new way of designing the physical layout of a computer chip.