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Randy Faris/Corbis The US Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge from a group of authors who claim Google Books violates their copyright. The New York-based trade group The Authors' Guild and several individual authors have been fighting Google Books since 2005, when it first brought the matter to the Supreme Court. In 2013, a US Circuit Judge dismissed the case, arguing that the service fell under fair use.In October of last year, the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the 2013 ruling. The judges noted that the books were not available in their entirety, and were therefore not a reasonable substitute for the original books. "The price of this short-term public benefit may well be ...

Bill Campbell -- mentor to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Google co-founder Larry Page and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey -- died Monday. "Bill Campbell passed peacefully in his sleep after a long battle with cancer," his family said in a statement. "The family appreciates all the love and support but asks for privacy at this time."Word of his passing has already started to draw tributes from notable tech executives on Facebook and Twitter."Will greatly miss friend and mentor Bill Campbell. Coach," AOL's Tim Armstrong wrote on Twitter.Dick Costolo, former CEO of Twitter, also commented about the "horrible" news of Campbell's passing. "Called me on my last day at Twitter & had both the fuiest & most insightf...

EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is determined to put consumers ahead of big companies. Thierry Troel/Corbis The European Union's watchdog arm is as worried as ever that Google's preinstalled apps on Android phones sway consumers away from alteatives.Margrethe Vestager, the EU's competition commissioner, voiced her conce Monday that Google and other enormous tech companies such as Amazon are stifling iovation. She also reiterated her commitment to putting consumers' needs first, having cracked down on Google earlier this decade for favoring its own shopping service in Inteet search results.Phones that run on Google's Android software come straight out of the box with a defined ...

Google knows you have goals, and it wants to help you find time to achieve them, whether it's exercising, spending time with family or developing a skill. The Web giant on Tuesday introduced a new assistive feature to Google Calendar that help you find time in your busy schedule for your desired activity. After asking a few simple questions about what type of goal you have and how often and what time you want to attempt them, Google looks at your schedule to find the best time window and pencils it into your calendar. If a conflict comes up, Google isn't going to let you off the hook. Goals will automatically reschedule your activity if it identifies a time conflict with your goal. You can a...

Speak a command on your Android Phone, and Google's Voice Access will comply. Google Need to use your Android phone but your hands are tied up? A new voice feature from Google can help. Voice Access, currently in beta status, allows you to move around the screen, jump to other screens and open apps through your voice. You can utter specific commands, such as "Open Chrome" or "Go home." Voice Access also places numbers next to icons and other objects on a screen. So you can say the number associated with an item to access it. Smartphones play a vital role in helping people communicate, find information and manage their lives, all with a few taps. But people with disabilities can sometimes fee...

Enlarge ImageGoogle Fiber boosters in Kansas City weren't short on signage. Marguerite Reardon/CNET Google has axed the free option for Fiber users in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2011, Kansas City was the first area Google delivered the high-speed, fiber-optic broadband service. Available in only a few cities in the United States still, Google Fiber offers speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps, aka gi...

Police said they helped Google security after a threat Friday. Brooks Kraft/Corbis Police "assisted" Google security at the company's corporate campus in Mountain View, Califoia, after a threat Friday, according to a tweet from the Mountain View Police Department. The police said there were no injuries. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

When you operate the most widely used email service in the world, you'd better be really, really careful with April Fools' jokes that change how it works. That's what Google leaed when it placed a joke "drop the mic" button right next to Gmail's regular "send" button as an April 1 gag. The joke button would insert into the email message an animation of a character from the movie "Minions" dropping a microphone -- a gesture to show you've gotten the last word in an exchange -- and then would mute the email conversation. Mute is a longtime feature of Gmail that hides conversations you don't want to follow and prevents future responses from showing up in your inbox. Google removed the joke butt...

When you operate the most widely used email service in the world, you'd better be really, really careful with April Fools' jokes that change how it works. That's what Google leaed when it placed a joke "drop the mic" button right next to Gmail's regular "send" button as an April 1 gag. The joke button would insert into the email message an animation of a character from the movie "Minions" dropping a microphone -- a gesture to show you've gotten the last word in an exchange -- and then would mute the email conversation. Mute is a longtime feature of Gmail that hides conversations you don't want to follow and prevents future responses from showing up in your inbox. Google removed the joke butt...

We're finally getting a clearer picture of whether people are giving BlackBerry another chance. And things don't look good.BlackBerry said Friday that it sold 600,000 phones in its fiscal fourth quarter, well below Wall Street's expectations of 850,000 and also below the 700,000 units it sold in the preceding quarter.Until now, things had been a little murky. BlackBerry's first Android-powered phone, the Priv, went on sale in November, but it worked with only a few carriers, such as AT&T in the US. T-Mobile began selling the phone in January, and Verizon added it earlier this month. Sprint still isn't selling it. Beyond token comments by CEO John Chen, like things are "quite positive" and "s...

Enlarge ImageGoogle's new virtual-reality app, Inside Abbey Road, lets you be the Starr. Google On any given day, the area near the zebra crossing outside London's Abbey Road Studios is chockablock full of tourists waiting in tu to re-create the...

Enlarge ImageGoogle's new virtual-reality app, Inside Abbey Road, lets you be the Starr. Google On any given day, the area near the zebra crossing outside London's Abbey Road Studios is chockablock full of tourists waiting in tu to re-create the iconic cover shot of the Beatles album named for the studios. Now...

Google has been asked by the federal govement to help it break into Android phones. Thai La Apple isn't the only company the govement has tapped for help getting data from phones. The feds have asked both Google and Apple to help it break into smartphones at least 63 times, according to data published Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. About 90 percent of the requests were directed toward Apple, while 10 percent involved requests for Google to unlock phones ruing its Android mobile operating system, the ACLU said. Apple's tangles with the FBI are well-known, thanks to a high-profile battle over data on an iPhone 5C used by a shooter in December's San Beardino, Califoia, attack....

Google has been asked by the federal govement to help it break into Android phones. Thai La Apple isn't the only company the govement has tapped for help getting data from smartphones.The feds have asked both Google and Apple to help it break into smartphones at least 63 times, according to data published Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. About 90 percent of request were directed toward Apple, while 10 percent involved requests for Google to unlock phones ruing its Android mobile operating system, the ACLU said. Apple's tangles with the FBI are well-known, thanks to a high-profile battle over data used by a shooter in November's San Beardino, Califoia, attack. In that case, th...

Google is adding home phone service to a bundle of services that also includes ultra fast broadband.Fiber Phone includes a Fiber Phone box that works with the phones you already own. Handset not included.On Tuesday the company aounced Fiber Phone, a service that will be sold alongside its 1Gbps broadband service and its video offering in cities where Google has deployed its all-fiber network. The service comes at a time when Google faces competition from traditional broadband providers, like AT&T and Comcast, which are also delivering ultra high-speed services. It also comes amid steady declines in landline subscriptions as consumers forgo traditional phone service for mobile devices. As of ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageNot a good thing to come home to. WFAA-TV screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The motto of Billy L. Nabors Demolition, a Seagoville, Texas, company that razes buildings, says it all."...

RoadshowAuto TechGoogle Self-Driving Car boss sees increased need for dealerships in an autonomous future In an autonomous future, when your car drives itself and your commute becomes 25 minutes of nap time, it's easy to imagine cars being wholly self-sufficient. They'll never need service, never break down and never need to go back to the dealership. Not so, says John Krafcik, CEO of the Google Self-Driving Car Project. Speaking at the 2016 J.D. Power Automotive Forum, taking place ahead of the New York Inteational Auto Show, Krafcik broke down some of the many implications of fully autonomous cars. That is, cars that rely on no human input in getting from point A to point B. Among the many...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Could it be? Could it? Azpawnbroker/eBay I'd almost forgotten about Google Glass.I walk freely along the streets, not wondering whether some weird-looking individual making an ugly spectacle of himself is going to invade my space in a self-righteous way.Yes, I'd heard there was going to be a new version, for enterprise use. I supposed, though, that this would just appear in context. Instead, here's a pawnbroker on eBay selling something he claims is a "very gently used" black Google Glass. It bears something of a resemblance to the Google Glass Enterprise Edition...

Google's Project Fi mobile service can save you big bucks, especially if you're traveling inteationally. But it might not be a good fit for everyone. In this edition of Ask Maggie I explain the ins and outs of Project Fi, Google's wireless service that runs off of the Sprint and T-Mobile networks. I also highlight why some people might want to think twice before ditching their old carrier to join Google's mobile revolution.Dear Maggie,I'm plaing a trip abroad this summer. I read your Ask Maggie column last week that offered advice on how to take your cell phone inteational without spending an arm and a leg. I saw some comments after the story about Google's Project Fi as an inexpensive altea...

Google's Project Fi mobile service can save you big bucks, especially if you're traveling inteationally. But it might not be a good fit for everyone. In this edition of Ask Maggie I explain the ins and outs of Project Fi, Google's wireless service that runs off of the Sprint and T-Mobile networks. I also highlight why some people might want to think twice before ditching their old carrier to join Google's mobile revolution.Dear Maggie,I'm plaing a trip abroad this summer. I read your Ask Maggie column last week that offered advice on how to take your cell phone inteational without spending an arm and a leg. I saw some comments after the story about Google's Project Fi as an inexpensive altea...