For over a year, Google has been the target of U.S. and European antitrust investigations, but now the search company has fired back. In a report commissioned by Google and released today, two acclaimed antitrust experts dismiss Google’s critics’ claims as lacking any compelling legal or economic argument for a government antitrust case.
What Does the Chicago School Teach About Internet Search and the Antitrust Treatment of Google? is the work of Judge Robert Bork and Professor …

According to Info Marketing Experts.com, spam mail traffic has fallen by just over 25%. The primary reason appears to be drastic improvements in both technology and filtering systems.
Global spam traffic has dropped by just over 25% in the last 2 years. This fall reported by Symantec showed that the main reason for the huge drop in spam has been due to changes and improvements in technology.
Despite inbound spam traffic increasing – India exceeded the US spam output by 1% (9.3% – 8.3%) …

Motorola Mobility, acquired by Google in May 2012, has closed the deal to purchase Ukrainian IT company Viewdle, which offers face, object, and gesture recognition technology products, allowing, among other features, an automated photo tagging.
Reportedly, Google paid USD 30-45 million for the venture and could use face recognition technology in its Picasa service, as well as for Android devices.
This purchase confirms the great IT potential of Ukraine, as well as high professionalism and …

The government of Iran announced a local replacement to Google and G-mail in light of the ban on the e-mail service, which was caused by an anti-islam movie.
This decision by some Iranian officials has been criticized by the local media. Gmail was blocked last week in the country, but the parent search engine Google remains unblocked.
The anti-islam movie which was produced in the United States was found by a court to be distributed by YouTube, owned by

By making one of the small changes that make our lives easier, Google announced today the open standard support for CardDAV, allowing easy synchronization of contacts with any operating system compatible with it. CardDAV joins CalDAV, which offers the same service for calendars, and iMAP.
Users wishing until now to synchronize mobile devices could choose a detour by using Exchange ActiveSync protocol.

 
For example, iOS users who otherwise are the main target audience of the new CardDAV …

The head of Google Brazil, Fabio Jose Silva Coelho, was arrested for refusing to remove YouTube videos that are claimed to be insulting a mayoral candidate.
This arrest warrant was issued by a regional electoral tribunal judge last week. Google appealed this week but was rejected by another

Google launched a doodle in its 14th birthday, last September 27, showing a cake with 14 candles, and below that, portions of a chocolate cake that form the word “Google.”
Below the doodle are fourteen candles that tally the number of years that Google has been around to help us navigate the world wide web easier.
Clicking the doodle takes a visitor to the search engine results page for the word

Kaspersky has found three spyware related to Flame malware threats said to use “sophisticated encryption methods”.
The security firm says it exposed three new unfriendly programs while studying several Command and Control (C&C) servers used by creators of Flame malware.
“Sophisticated encryption methods were utilised so that no one, but the attackers, could obtain the data uploaded from infected machines,” read Kaspersky’s statement.
“The analysis of the …

Google said that they will not take down the anti-Islam movie even if White House requested it. The video found in YouTube, called “Innocence of Muslims,” has caused brutal protests in several Arab nations as it portrayed hate towards Islam and its founder Muhammad.
Google said that the video does not violate its rule against hate speech because the video was against Islam and not the Muslim people. However, the video is banned in places such as Indonesia and India where local laws have …

US citizens who had fallen victim for a work-from-home scam that took advantage on the Google name will receive refunds courtesy of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
The committee will distribute over 90,000 refund checks worth about $2.3 million to Americans who fell for the fraudulent scheme and charged with hidden costs.
The FTC classified the names Google Money Tree, Google Pro and Google Treasure Chest as scams operated without consent and any relation to the search giant.

People …