A group of Indian Publishers have moved to Newyork district Court against Google Book Settlement’s (GBS 2.0) and filed allegation of copyright violation against Internet Gaint.
Siddharth Arya, the legal counsel for IRRO(The Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation ) said ” Google has scanned millions of books of Indian authors without taking any kind of permission from the author which is a clearattempt to turn copyright law on its head,”
The IRRO is an organisation owned by authors and publishers which include Star Publications Pvt. Ltd., Abhinav Publications, Daya Publication House …

Google India Internet Bus has reached Jaipur today. The Google Internet Bus Project is to educate the people in villages and far flung areas about the Internet and how they can use it to make their lives easier.
The Bus has covered villages of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh, before starting its journey in Rajasthan yesterday. The bus would remain in Rajasthan for 30 days and would cover 10 cities in Rajasthan – Jaipur, Kota, Ajmer, Beawer, Bhilwara, Udaipur, Pali, Jodhpur, Bikaner and …

Internet Giant Google has created a buzz by making an announcement, that it could quit China after hackers broke in to Google China and tried to access the email accounts of Human Right Activists of China.
China is the biggest Internet Market in the world with more that 350 million users and search revenue of more than $1 billion. China is one of those marketing where Google is not the leading search engine. Google only have 30% market share of search engine market in china whereas its main competitor Baidu has …

Chinese Search Engine Baidu Was Hacked on Tuesday By an Iranian Groups of Hackers around 10:30 a.m. local time (9:30 p.m. Monday EST).
The group of Hackers, Who call themselves Iranian Cyber Army defaced the Homepage of .com version of Baidu by the banner of Iranian Cyber army filled with Logos of various Iran groups and slogan in Farsi.
Below a sentence in Farsi read, “In reaction to the US authorities’ intervention in Iran’s internal affairs. This is a warning,”
This group had also hacked Popular web 2.0 service Twitter Last month …

France President Nicolas Sarkozy Has asked its government officials to find out the ways to Tax Online Gaints like Google,Yahoo, Facebook and others for the revenues they generate by showing online ads in France.
According to report from France Governement, The money which would be collected from this tax could be used to fund legal alternatives for buying books, films and music on the internet. Currently, Web companies like Google are only being taxed in US where their headquarters are located for all revenues generated worldwide.
According to sources, …

According to New Deal between Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, Bing would be the default search engine and MSN.com would be the Default homepage on all HP Laptops and PCs worldwide for the time span of three years.
The Earlier Partnership only covered the consumer PCs sold in the United States and Canada, and was effective for 12 months but the extended deal would cover both business and consumer computers worldwide for three years.
This Partnership would help Microsoft to increase the Market Share of its Search Engine Bing, Which was launched …

Search Engine Giant Google Efforts to acquire yelp went in vain when Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman backed off at the last moment and declined 500 Million offer from Google.
Earlier, Both Parties were ready for Deal and were working on final details for acquisition. This acquisition was very Important for Google and Google was going to use data of Yelp for building out its own directory of yellow pages and using it to improve Google maps and local business Search Results.
Those who are not aware, Yelp is the Largest …

A French Court imposed fine of 300,000 euros on Google in Copyright Case in Which Google was found Guilty for violated French copyright law in digitizing books of French Publisher
The Paris Civil Court stated that Google has violated Copyright Law by scanning complete books of French Author.
Judge of Paris Civil Court asked Google to pay amount of 300,000 euros to French Publisher Herve de La Martiniere that decided to take Google to court for digitising its books without first seeking legal permission to do so.
In addition …