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If you remember, Google was caught overriding Apple Safari browser privacy settings back in February, 2012. Now, after nine months the tech giant has a preliminary deal in place with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to pay a $22.5 million fine for this whole breach. This fine could be the largest penalty on a single company by FTC. Even though it won’t be a big blow for Google which draws in this sort of cash in around just five hours, but it does cast an impact over the company in terms of legal arguments and practices. ...

Since Larry Page took over as Google’s CEO, the company is continuing its shutdown process of not so actively used products as part of Spring cleanup. Today, the company announced that it is going to shutdown few more products including Google Video, iGoogle, Google Mini and more combining to more than 30 products. [Credit] In an official blog post, Google posted that it is going to close Google Mini, Google Talk Chatback, Google Video, iGoogle, Symbian Search App. This is the new list of closure from the giant which add to the following that killed off in recent months - ...

Here is the single post where you can find all the information that Google announced at Google I/O 2012 event for the past two days. We’ve gathered all the biggest highlights of Day 1 & 2 in this single post, including the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Nexus 7 Tablet, Google Glasses, and more! Whether you’re a fan of Android, Google products, or just good tech geek, Google I/O has it all. If you missed the announcements or are just plain curious about what Google showed off at Google I/O 2012, read on. ...

Yesterday, Google released ‘Chrome for iOS’ and its already in Apple’s top charts downloads. This browser brings all of the awesome features especially the user interface, Google account sync, Incognito mode, etc. Clearly, its much better browser than iOS’s default Safari browser. Unfortunately, there is no option to set Chrome as default in your iOS device. This means by clicking any link will launch Safari by default and there is no such option to change. But, there is already a tweak which allows you to set Google Chrome as default browser on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. ...

On June 6, 2012, the world will change and its forever. Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by tomorrow on World IPV6 launch day. To remind about this launch, Google posted a video of Vint Cerf who is called Father of the Internet and also a Chief Internet Evangelist at Google where he discusses the next version of IPV6 and why we need it. ...

Google Indonesia has created an awesome and pretty sweet Chrome experiment that tells the story of Ramayana in an interactive visualization in a digital way. The story is the same classic Sanskrit epic but the characters Ram, Sita, Ravan and Hanuman use modern Google tools like Google Talk, Maps, G+, Docs, Weather, Gmail, Product search and other Google tools in this showcase. As the story goes on, Jatayu even writes a blog! ...

Ever wondering if you’d be better off working for Apple or for Google? Who pays better? Apple or Google? Who gets paid more: designers or engineers? What is the average salary of employees at these companies? A job at either of these tech giants isn’t guaranteed to make you rich, but they do pay their talent fairly well, especially their engineers and designers. Here’s a list of some of the most common positions within Apple and Google, along with their average salary, in ranking order. Business Insider compiled this list in a post from the salary data of Glassdoor, a free jobs and career community that offers the world an inside look at jobs and companies. ...

Its not a joke! Yahoo! is all set to launch a new browser tonight at 9PM PT. The new browser is called as Axis. Yahoo describes Axis as “a new mobile and desktop browsing search experience.” There are two parts to Axis: a browser extension and a standalone iOS app. Yahoo offers versions of the Axis extension for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox (along with Internet Explorer 9 for Windows); the iOS app is universal. ...

Google+ now allows you to live broadcast your video on air and simultaneously on YouTube with just few simple steps. You can stream your content publicly on your Google+ profile, your YouTube channel and also on your blog/website. The feature is called Hangouts On Air, which has been available to selected users for a while, but is only now being released for general use. The ability to use Hangouts On Air will be rolling out to everyone over the next few weeks. You can also plan to stream your content like birthday, marriage or other occasions. As of now, this will broadcast publicly everything. ...

 Its cloud storage everywhere! You have your files, pictures, videos on your home or office computer that you would like to access from other locations on different devices while on the go. Or you want to maintain a copy of all your data on somewhere on the Internet as a backup so that you can quickly access them from anywhere. This is where the cloud storage is useful. Dropbox has been the leading cloud storage vendor from long time but this may change soon as the software giants Microsoft and Google entered the market with the launch of SkyDrive and Google Drive (it just launched yesterday) respectively. ...