A group of Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives called on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Google Inc’s ability to block calls to rural telephone exchanges.
A federal judge set a Nov. 9 deadline Wednesday for submission of a revised agreement in the battle over Google Inc.’s effort to get digital rights to millions of out-of-print books. Then the debate over the fairness of the plan will resume.
Lawyers on both sides are poised to continue their court battle over Google Inc.’s effort to get digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.
Verizon Wireless said on Tuesday it will sell two mobile phones with Google Inc’s Android operating system this year, part of a partnership that could boost Google’s efforts to challenge Apple Inc in the fast-growing smartphone market.
Google Inc is in the early stages of looking at ways to write software that would fully integrate plug-in hybrid vehicles to the power grid, minimize strain on the grid and help utilities manage vehicle charging load.
Google Inc’s voice service is an “online software tool” and should not be regulated, a Google lawyer told Reuters on Friday.
Google Inc expects to buy one small company a month as it rekindles its acquisition engine and moves beyond the worst phase of the global recession, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview on Wednesday.
Google Inc’s online news site experienced service disruptions for roughly two hours on Tuesday, in the second major outage to affect the company in a month.
The U.S. Justice Department advised a federal judge Friday that a proposed legal settlement giving Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books threatens to thwart competition and drive up prices unless it’s revised.
Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.
