Google has announced that it has been working on a wearable smart contact lens that can measure a person’s blood sugar levels from the moisture on their eyeball.
Google has agreed to remove an image of a California man’s dead son from its satellite view in Google Maps.
Search engine companies have agreed to blocking 100,000 search terms related to child abuse to make such images harder to find online.
A French court has ordered Google to remove nine photographs of ex-Formula One boss Max Mosley participating in a Nazi-themed sex orgy from its index, ruling that the images breach his privacy.
About a year and a half ago, we wrote about “Rockstar Consortium,” a shell company set up by Apple and Microsoft (and a few other companies), in which they placed many of the patents they received when they outbid Google to get Nortel’s patents. We noted at the time that one of the reasons regulators let Apple, Microsoft, RIM and others team up to buy these patents without it being an antitrust concern was that they promised that all the patents would be able to be licensed on “reasonable terms.” Except… once they handed them off to Rockstar, that company’s CEO, John Veschi, noted that this promise “does not apply to us.”