Google has been ordered to pay €500,000 to Bottin Cartographes, a French company that filed a lawsuit against Google France after it began providing its free Google Maps services to customers. Google is also responsible for paying an additional €15,000 in fees. The court found Google “guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application,” Economic Times said Thursday. ”We proved the illegality of [Google's] strategy to remove its competitors… the court recognized the unfair and abusive character of the methods used and allocated Bottin Cartographes all it claimed,” Botton Cartographes lawyer Jean-David Scemmama said. “This is the first time Google has been convicted for its Google Maps application.” Google said it will appeal the decision. “We remain convinced that
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Google to pay €500,000 fine to French cartographer in Google Maps case
February 3rd, 2012 
Todd Haselton 
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Tags: Botton Cartographes, damages, fine, france, google, Google Maps, lawsuit, Legal, maps, Services 
No Comments »GSM Galaxy Nexus on AT&T can use Google Wallet, Verizon version still lacking
February 2nd, 2012 Jake Smith The Sprint version of the Galaxy Nexus is the only variant to officially see Google Wallet. However, a new report from Droid-Life said the GSM Galaxy Nexus with an AT&T SIM card can download and access Google Wallet from the Android Market, which is a sigh of relief for many users. As you can see in the [...]
Posted in News Tags: Android, Android Market, google, Google Wallet, GoogleWallet, Sprint Nextel, verizon wireless No Comments »French Court Finds Google Guilty Of Abusing Market Dominance With Google Maps, Orders To Pay Up €515,000
February 2nd, 2012 Eric Ravenscraft Let this be a lesson to all major tech companies: if you have a ton of users and you want to enter a new market, you’d better charge some kind of arbitrary fee, lest you end up in trouble with the French judicial system. Google is feeling that sting th…
Android and iOS see continued growth in Q4 as BlackBerry, Windows and Symbian slide
February 2nd, 2012 Todd Haselton ComScore released its most recent U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share report for the three-month period ending in December, 2011. The research firm found that Samsung remained the top mobile phone vendor in the fourth quarter with a 25.3% market share — the same share as it held in the third quarter. LG’s market share dropped 0.6 percentage points to a 20% share for second place followed by Motorola, which fell 0.5 percentage points to 13.3%. Apple had the fourth largest share with a 12.4% market share, up 2.2 percentage points, and RIM fell 0.4 points to a 6.7% share. Read on for more. Android remains the most used smartphone operating system in the United States with a 47.3% share of the
Posted in News Tags: Android, Apple, blackberry os, comScore, December 2011, google, iOS, LG, market share, microsoft, Mobile, motorola, report, RIM, Samsung, symbian No Comments »Google introduces ‘Bouncer’ security system to keep malware out of the Android Market
February 2nd, 2012 Dan Graziano Google announced on Thursday that the company has begun to take a more active approach to keeping malware out of the Android Market. The search giant is using a new service called “Bouncer” to search through the Market for potential malware. Bouncer will scan new applications, ones already in the Market, and developer accounts for known malware, spyware, trojans and misbehaving apps. The service has been running for some time and between the first and second halves of 2011, the company reports a 40% decrease in the number of potentially-malicious downloads from the Android Market. The drop comes as security companies have been reporting that instances of malicious applications are on the rise. Google also said Android is designed to prevent
Posted in News Tags: Android, Android Market, Apps, bouncer, google, malware, Mobile, security No Comments »Google rolling out Android 3.2 to Google TVs, making way for Ice Cream Sandwich soon
February 2nd, 2012 Jake Smith Google is continuing its push on Google TV by rolling out Android 3.2 to Sony’s Google TV while the update to the Logitech Revue is on its way, GigaOm pointed out. The 3.2 update is not too major, but it does bring some nice updates, such as: Google TVs now boast hardware acceleration, HTTP live streaming [...]
Posted in News Tags: Android, Android version history, Blu-ray Disc, google, Google Chrome, GoogleTV, HTTP Live Streaming, sony No Comments »Google Brings In The Muscle: Meet Bouncer, The Market’s Anti-Malware Machine – And It’s Already At Work
February 2nd, 2012 Aaron Gingrich As Android has grown from a small hobbyists OS to the mainstream-conquering behemoth it is today, so has the amount of malware directed towards it. A large chunk of the problem comes from malicious apps that make it into the Android Market – often time…
Posted in News Tags: Android, anti, app, Applications, Apps/Games, bouncer, google, malware, Market, security, virus No Comments »comScore: Android market share still expanding, approaching 50 percent of US smartphone use
February 2nd, 2012 Jake Smith Research firm comScore is out with its latest numbers for the month of December, giving us a glimpse at the current United States mobile market. The report indicates that mobile sales are up-and-rising for the holiday month. comScore found that Google’s Android is leading with a 47.3-percent OS market share (rising 2.5 points), which brings the company close [...]
Android Market security addressed by Google’s new Bouncer
February 2nd, 2012 Jerry Hildenbrand Today Google unveiled a new tool to fight malware in the Android Market, appropriately named Bouncer. Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Engineering for Android made the announcement on the Google Mobile blog, and it seems to address most concerns users …
Posted in News Tags: Android, bouncer, google, malware, scanning, server side, smartphone, Smartphones, tablet, Tablets No Comments »Android Market security addressed by Google’s new Bouncer
February 2nd, 2012 Jerry Hildenbrand Today Google unveiled a new tool to fight malware in the Android Market, appropriately named Bouncer. Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Engineering for Android made the announcement on the Google Mobile blog, and it seems to address most concerns users …
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