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A U.S. district court has ruled against Google in a trademark suit over the sale of the terms Geico and Geico Direct in Google's AdWords service. In April 2004 Google had changed a previous AdWords policy that stopped the sale of other companies’ words and phrase, and this policy was quickly attacked legally by Geico. The ruling follows an earlier judgement in December that had favored Google. The most recent ruling, however, found that Geico had “established a likelihood of confusion” and that there had been a breach of the insurance firm’s trade mark rights “solely with regard to those sponsored links that use GEICO's trade marks in their headings or text." The matter is not completely over, as the two parties now have 30 days to settle their differences, or failing that, go to trial. "Geico will continue to aggressively enforce its tr... (more)

The World's Youngest "Google Entrepreneur" Is One Month Old

"Google KAI: Our Lovely Boy was born on September, 12th 2005 in Kalmar, Sweden," says the newly created Website which opens up with "Ads by Goooooogle" above the fold and the page follows with baby Google Kai's photos at the Google-Kai.com Website. The Website text continues: "Google KAI is Lebanese Swedish GOOGLE KAI has Ordered his new T-shirt, it will be posted when he will wear it. Some People calling or writing to us saying why? he will get tough school life...etc.... my answer is absolutley not if he is using Google Search engine and he is building new idea with his frien... (more)

Google Chrome Comes Out of a Comic Book

Philipp Lenssen at the “Google Blogoscoped” blog broke the story on September 1, 2008 that Google is launching an open source browser called Google Chrome. Lennsen writes: “Today there was a comic book in my mail, sent by Google and drawn by no less than Scott McCloud, creator of the classic Understanding Comics. Within the 38 pages, which I’ve scanned and put up, in very readable format Google gives the technical details into a project of theirs: an open source browser called Google Chrome. The book points to www.google.com/chrome, but I can’t see anything live there yet.” ... (more)

Bob Muglia Named President of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business

Bob Muglia, a 21-year veteran at Microsoft, was named president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business (STB), a group he previously served as senior vice president. As head of the Server and Tools Business, Muglia, 49, is in charge of delivering on the vision of Dynamic IT, Microsoft's effort to help IT pros and developers create optimized and agile infrastructures that align to changing business needs. Muglia is responsible for developing and marketing Microsoft's infrastructure and developer software. The Server and Tools business portfolio includes Microsoft Windows Server... (more)

Human Error Causes One Hour's Google Search Chaos

"Our apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled," wrote Google Search VP Marissa Mayer yesterday, in a blogged explanation of the unfortunate fact than most Google searches conducted between 6:30AM-7:25AM PST on Saturday morning returned a message "This site may harm your computer" beside each and every search result. "This was clearly an error," Mayer added, "and we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users." Google works with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to come up with criteria ... (more)