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Cyberattacks on e-mail accounts of Chinese human right activists may force Google to quit China

donal brown January 13, 2010

Google may yet be forced to abandon the lucrative Chinese market after it gained access by agreeing to remove banned topics from its site. Hackers are attempting to invade the Gmail accounts of human rights activists along with the accounts of at least 20 large companies in the finance, technology, media and chemical sectors. -DB The New York Times January 13, 2010 By Andrew Jacobs and Miguel Helft BEIJING – Google, facing an assault by hackers

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Women’s group sues Google for bloggers’ defamation

donal brown December 31, 2009

The National Association of Professional Women is suing Google and three other Web sites for publishing bloggers’ statements that say the organization is a scam. -DB Courthouse News Service December 31, 2009 By Barbara Leonard MINEOLA, N.Y. – The National Association of Professional Women claims Google and three other Web sites defamed it by allowing bloggers to publish defamatory statements that call the organization a “scam.” The NAPW says Google hosts at least four blogs

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Google’s Fast Flip attempts to make reading news faster for public and more profitable for news outlets

donal brown September 16, 2009

Google is creating a news hub that allows viewers to read dozens of news articles quickly. They plan to share revenues with news providers from the ads that surround the articles. -DB The New York Times September 15, 2009 By Miguel Helft SAN FRANCISCO — Google, long seen as an enemy by many in the news industry, is making a bold attempt to be seen as a friend with a new service it hopes will make

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Blogger of venomous insults sues Google for outing her

donal brown August 28, 2009

Legal experts think that a fashion student’s suit against Google has little chance of success. She had anonymously called a model a “shank” and was subsequently identified by Google. -DB San Francisco Chronicle August 28, 2009 By James Temple The blogger who anonymously tarred a fashion model as a “skank” before being outed by Google Inc. under court order generated considerable public outrage when she announced plans to sue the company for $15 million, but few

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Los Angeles plans to shift records from software to Google

donal brown July 21, 2009

The Los Angeles City Council will decide whether to shift e-mails and other public records from its antiquated records retention software to a Google service which experts say could improve public access. The police department is concerned that sensitive arrest records would not be secure in the event of the shift. -DB Los Angeles Times July 17, 2009 By David Zahniser and Phil Willon Frustrated by a slow and antiquated computer system, the city of Los

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