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The “tech war” between companies is not only about tablets, smpartphones or computers, it's also about social networks. Microsoft, which is working on a safest Windows 8 for children, has launched its own social site, called So.cl.

Google Chrome is the Web's most used browser and, according to the web traffic analysis tool Statcounter, the leadership beating Internet Explorer (IE) took place last week.

The firm’s latest illustrations show that Chrome’s line of usage overtook IE’s for the first week ever, with Firefox, Safari and Opera completing the top five respectively.

Iran's Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast,  threatened to take legal action against Google for dropping the name Persian Gulf from its Google Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and Arab states nameless.

Ramin Mehmanparast also said, “one of the seditionist acts taken as part of the soft war against the Iranian nation has been Google's shameless act to drop the name 'Persian Gulf'”. "We have put on our agenda to make an official complaint", he added.

Facebook Inc has augmented the price range in Silicon Valley's biggest-ever initial public offering to raise more than $12 billion, giving the No.1 social network a valuation potentially exceeding $100 billion.

The social networking, which announced on 11 May its new App Center, raised the price target range to between $34 and $38 per share in response to strong demand, from $28 to $35.

Four technological giants are fighting to conquer the OLED television’s throne. This group of fighters is composed by the Japanese companies Sony Corp and Panasonic Corp, and the Korean firms Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.

After days of deliberation, a court ruled that Google has infringed the intellectual property in the Java programming language, Oracle's property, despite it gave reasons explaining that it was legally allowed.

However, the jury couldn't define which actions of the company involve a “fair use” of these programming tools. The fair use question is crucial to determining damages.

Cloud computing or “the cloud” as it is known, has become big news over the last year or so. But, despite all the references published on media, there are still some doubts of its security and benefits.

First of all, we should know that cloud computing is a metaphor to describe the internet. Users can access to all the computing services offered by different suppliers in the cloud, depending on their requirements. The information is stored permanently on internet servers, and is sent to client’s caches, such as desktops, laptops or mobiles.

Joaquín Almunia, vice president of the European Commission responsible for competition policy, said EU regulators are in no rush to decide on any antitrust charges against Google.

"We are not yet there. This is a complex case. We are not in a hurry. We are very serious (about the investigation)," Almunia told Reuters on the Conference on Card, Internet and Mobile Payments, in Brussels the 4 May.

According to ancient Greek mythology, Lethe, better known as Oblivion, was a river deity, daughter of Ungratefulness, who flowed in the underworld Hades. People believed that when the dead reached Hades they were forced to drink Lethe’s waters to erase any memory of their previous life. Today, after more than two and half millennia, whether forgetfulness is a blessing or a curse is still discussed as part of a debate on what is broadly known as the right to be forgotten or right to oblivion in the digital world.

Google has been under increased scrutiny because of its privacy practices, and it spent a record $5 million on lobbying Congress between January and March of this year.

This sum is a 240% increase from the amount it spent during the same quarter in 2011, and a 30% more than the last quarter of 2011.

The first-quarter expenses for political persuasion are by far the highest that Google Inc. has rung up for any three-month period since the company opened a lobbying office in Washington seven years ago.

Google’s online storage service, Google Drive, is finally out with the expected 5 gigabytes of free storage.

According to Google, this memory users can make this capacity bigger. For 25 GB, they have to pay $2.49 per month; for 100GB, $4.99 per month; or even 1TB for $49.99 per month. Companies can increase the memory in a maximum of 16TB.

Google Drive has launched to compete directly with other storage services in the “cloud” computing. Dropbox, SkyDrive and Box are leading the market at this moment.

The informal corporate slogan of Google, “Don't be evil”, was adopted by the company as a work-base and a way to communicate a message to their competitors.

“Not be evil” refers to all the actions that, sometimes, companies make to obtain short-term benefits, disregarding users interests. The motto works like a baseline for honest decision-making that disassociates Google from any and all cheating.