The early criticism of Google Glass—that it's for arseholes, that it will lead to a dystopian Panoptican nightmare—is mostly well-founded. But what everyone has glossed over in their opening salvos is, I think, the most immediate and obvious problem Google Glass will precipitate: Once these things stop being a rich-guy novelty and start actually hitting the streets, the rise in creepshots is going to be worse than any we've ever seen before. Read More >>
Over the last week, Google has been migrating web albums for its online photo service Picasa over to Google+. No you didn't get any warning, and yes, it's sneaky—if not exactly unexpected. Read More >>
Featured comment by RogB:
"Don't use Picasa, but I can't even leave rating/feedback on Google Play apps now without a G+ account. Really annoying. I don't have a FB account and ..." More »
Google just put out JAM, for Chrome, which is basically Garage Band for your browser. It's pretty cool! And after today there's basically zero chance you're ever going to think about it again. Read More >>
Featured comment by Cloudfire:
"I think that's it, Google are a lot more flash with it, they make a much bigger deal of it and publicise it a lot more.
It makes it look like it's ..." More »
Google revealed a lot at Google I/O: a shimmering tablet at a good price, a sci-fi home theater orb, seriously sophisticated search, and Jelly Beans. It also revealed an unsettling lack of human understanding. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"Meh, I don't lose sleep over Mr Biddle's opinions any more than I do over those of the mad woman who sometimes comes down our street abusing people at..." More »
At one point, Google was proud to offer up its search results and services without any sponsored content. That seems to be changing in a pretty aggressive way, though. Google is apparently compensated by the vendors that appear in its Flight Search and Hotel Finder vertical search engines. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jon D:
"If I use google rather than typing in a whole URL manually, for the screwfix website or something like that, I'll often click on the sponsored link be..." More »
After a week of deliberations a jury has returned a verdict in the patent portion of the Google-Android fight to the death. Google is innocent — it did not infringe on two of Oracle's patents with Android. Read More >>
In what was meant to have been a peace-keeping move, Google may have inadvertently brought upon itself the wrath of Iran in its entirety. And now the otherwise mighty corporation is facing one rather intimidating lawsuit. Read More >>
Featured comment by Chazmer:
"surely Google has no servers in Iran.. and Iran is planning to ditch our little version of the net.. couldn't Google just give Iran the finger and ren..." More »
After the jury returned a partial verdict in the copyright phase of the Google-Oracle trial -- unable to decide whether Google's recreation of the Java platform constituted "fair use" of Oracle's copyright -- the trial has now entered the patent phase, where the same jury will seek to decide whether Google infringed on Oracle's patents. Read More >>
Featured comment by g3f:
"It is all just going through the motions now, the copyright issue was the big one, and that is still very much undecided. Its not even so much the 'fa..." More »
The verdict is in for the Oracle vs. Google trial on whether Java was used improperly in the development of Android. The answer? Yes, sort of. Read More >>
Featured comment by g3f:
"From Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/):
Google won everything but the one issue that the judge has to decide anyway, the API SSO issue. The jury fo..." More »
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