FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Backs Net Neutrality

During a speech at the Brookings Institute on Monday,…

Google Defends Plan to Digitize Books

Google defended its book digitization program to Congress yesterday. David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer at Google, expressed Google’s plans as an open platform that will work to help independent bookstores and will work with publishers and device manufacturers.

In a statement Google said, “In this open platform, readers can find and purchase digital books from any bookstore and read them on any device,…

Google Opposed for Internet Library by Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo

Google, which acquired the rights to create an online library in 2008 as the outcome of a lawsuit against them for copyright infringement at the cost of $125 Million, is being taken on by the Open Book Alliance. Google aims to use the rights to create an online Book Rights Registry

Although it is not yet official, Microsoft and Yahoo have confirmed, and Amazon is also expected, to join the…

NCSA Board of Directors Welcomes Google

Eric Davis, head of anti-malvertising is representing Google on the National Cyber Security Alliance’s (NCSA) board of directors. Davis, who has spent 15 years in the marketing and consumer education industries, is a leader at Google in creating policies and procedures to protect the company’s network, products and customers. He said, “For Google, there is no higher priority than the safety and security of our users…We look forward to…