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Websites everywhere dark in protest of US anti-piracy legislation

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:24:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com By William New (republished with permission from Geneva-based Intellectual Property Watch) In an unprecedented action suggesting intellectual property rights have bumped up against an access threshold, thousands of websites have gone “dark” today in protest against two draft anti-piracy and counterfeiting bills in the US Congress that the protestors say would harm freedoms online. The [...]

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Tech wars warming up vs when companies had clear profiles

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:16:48 +0000

GenevaLunch.com This editorial has been moved to the Editor’s Notepad blog, where it was originally intended to sit (apologies for the early morning confusion).

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Google gets new annual license in China

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:34:17 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Google’s license to operate in mainland China has been renewed for a year. The company has lost market share since it started re-directing traffic to its Hong Kong operations after it was unable to resolve its spat with the Chinese government over censorship. The Chinese license nevertheless allows it to pick up [...]

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Google’s Linux woes could have widespread impact

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:48:19 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Google’s latest legal faceoff, in the state of Texas, has resulted in a relatively small fine of $5 million for the search engine giant, but the ramifications of the case could be huge, reports Geneva-based IP Watch. The company was sued in 2009 by Bedrock Computer Technologies, “a firm that has [...]

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Google has bad week with China, France

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:34:17 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Google is having a bad-air week with France fining it $100,000 for Google Street Views and China purportedly disrupting the company’s G-mail service in some areas. France’s CNIL, the data privacy watchdog, 21 March handed Google a €100,000 fine for capturing private data from wifi systems while its Google Street Views photographed European sites from [...]

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Libya’s Internet activity: zero in past 24 hours

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:16:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Peter Barron, a Google director, says that Internet activity in Libya in the past 24 hours has been “exactly zero”, citing the difficulty protestors there face trying to use the same kind of tools that protestors have recently used elsewhere in the Middle East to topple dictators. Libya’s Internet access has [...]

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2,149 people to read Don Quijote on Youtube

Sean Ecker — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:06:50 +0000

GenevaLunch.com 2,149 Spanish-speaking people from around the world will read “Don Quijote de la Mancha”, the 17th century masterpiece by Miguel de Cervantes, in its entirety on Youtube. The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE in its Spanish initials) will kick off a project today 30 September in an agreement with Google, owners of Youtube. The novel is [...]

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Mouse movements give shopping clues

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:09:32 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Debate grows over how much web site owners should tell visitors about information gleaned Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – The news that Google and the CIA are teaming up to predict the future based on what we’re already doing online has prompted yet another media debate over privacy and how much information is spilled by our [...]

Bye-bye Windows, says Google

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:14:53 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Google is phasing out internal use of Microsoft Windows, reports the Financial Times, based on information from the search engine company’s staff. Google reportedly began to make the change, for security reasons, in January, after it experienced problems with hacking from China. The staff of 10,000 is being moved towards other operating systems, notably Mac [...]

Gov’t data requests unveiled by Google

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:28:34 +0000

GenevaLunch.com San Francisco, California, USA (GenevaLunch) – Brazil is the leader, with the US close behind, for requests to Google by governments for data on users or censorship, figures released by the company Tuesday 20 April show. Brazil made 3,663 user data requests while the US made 3,580 between 1 July and 31 December 2009. Figures [...]

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