By Jacqui Cheng
An Italian court has convicted three former Google executives of violations to Italy’s privacy code early Wednesday morning. The decision comes after months of back and forth on the case, all of which began with a video uploaded by some delinquent teenagers of themselves beating on a classmate with Down Syndrome. [...]

No matter how good a service is it can always use a few tweaks, and Flickr is no different.
The 15 add-ons we’ve gathered below for Firefox will help with everything from navigation to uploading, accessing Flickr in countries that block the service, and much more. Take a look and you’re bound to find an extension [...]

YouTube is still the undisputed king of video sharing on the web, so it only makes sense that there would be a slew of tricks and tools for it. From Adobe AIR applications that let you download videos to Firefox extensions that protect you from RickRolls, and much more, here are over 100 tools and [...]

Google says it will not “voluntarily” comply with the government’s request that it censor YouTube videos in accordance with broad “refused classification” (RC) content rules.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy referred to Google’s censorship on behalf of the Chinese and Thai governments in making his case for the company to impose censorship locally.
Google warns this would lead [...]

Google says it will set up a new test network in some communities that will give its customers internet access 100 times faster than the system currently available in most of the United States.
Google officials say the experimental system will be deployed in small areas of the United States and serve 50,000-500,000 customers.
Company officials at [...]

by Michael Muchmore
Google lobbed a salvo at Facebook on Tuesday, adding Google Buzz, a new social networking capability to its popular Gmail Web e-mail service. Though Google Buzz is somewhat integrated with Twitter, along with a few other services – Flickr and Picasa, most notably – there’s no integration with the social network of [...]

By Stephen Shankland – CNN Tech
Who could resist the months of hype that paved the way for Apple’s iPad debut last week? Apparently not Google, which has shown its interest in tablet computing with its browser-based Chrome OS.
On Monday, Glen Murphy, a user interface designer for Google’s Chrome browser and the Chrome operating system based [...]

The US Department of Justice has said that it is still not satisfied with a deal that would allow search giant Google to build a vast digital library.
It said the plan failed to address antitrust and copyright concerns.
It echoes objections by online retailer Amazon, which has said that Google’s plan to scan and distribute millions [...]