Oracle's suit against Google Relevant Products/Services  for the use of Java in its Android portable operating system continues to reverberate through the open-source movement. In the newest development, Google has declined to participate in the upcoming JavaOne conference, an event formerly hosted by Java creator Sun Microsystems and now run by Sun's new owner, Oracle.

Google Relevant Products/Services moved into Skype territory this week with a new VoIP service that works from the Gmail interface. Now the search Relevant Products/Services giant is throwing down the real-time gauntlet with a new service that hopes to one-up both Bing and Twitter.

One million calls in 24 hours. That's Google Relevant Products/Services's story with its just-introduced Gmail phone-calling feature. Google sent a message via Twitter announcing the near-immediate milestone and thanking people for trying the feature.

Lately I've been feeling very self-conscious when talking on the phone in public, and it's not because I'm worried about strangers listening in on my private conversations.

Rather, it's because the cell phone I'm using -- the just-released Dell Streak -- is actually a touch-screen tablet device that makes some of the clunkiest handsets from the late '90s look diminutive by comparison.

Like few other people on the planet, Google Relevant Products/Services's Ben Gomes knows what interests the world.

Gomes is the engineer in charge of improving what you see when you Google. From one of the most important but little-known offices in the Googleplex in Mountain View, Gomes is responsible for shaping the automatic suggestions users get as they begin typing a query, and the few lines of text and links they get back, which Google calls "the snippet." He sees the digital torrent of Google's 1 billion daily search Relevant Products/Services queries.

Ever thought twice about posting a party picture on Facebook, fearing it could someday hurt your chance at a dream job?

A new German law is supposed to solve the problem by making it illegal for prospective employers to spy on applicants' private postings.

Motorola, maker of the top-selling Android-based smartphone, Droid, is investing in the Google Relevant Products/Services  operating system's future by buying a company that will make it easier to develop Android applications. Schaumberg, Ill.-based Motorola is believed to have paid $20 million to buy 280 North.

With the beta of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 scheduled for release on Sept. 15, a new document from Microsoft Russia has surfaced that indicates the user interface and other details. The Russian-language document, called 5 New Opportunities IE9, was online only briefly, although it's currently available in the Bing search Relevant Products/Services cache.

Should Skype be worried? Google Relevant Products/Services  just invaded its territory with a new service that brings Voice over Internet Protocol to Gmail and links it to the Google Voice app. All this means users can make telephone calls from the Gmail interface.

Cellmania says it has become part of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion under undisclosed terms. Cellmania is "bringing their expertise in application storefront development to the BlackBerry platform," a company spokesperson said Wednesday. "However, RIM is not providing any further comment at this time."

At Yahoo search Relevant Products/Services, the buck stops with Bing. Yahoo has officially transitioned its search back end to Microsoft's Bing platform.

The announcement is the first major move in the 10-year deal Microsoft and Yahoo inked after the companies failed to execute a merger agreement. Forged just 13 months ago, the 10-year search partnership will see Microsoft's Bing technology powering Yahoo search and Yahoo will become the worldwide sales arm for both companies' premium search advertisers.

From now on, "a Dell" can also refer to a smartphone. On Tuesday, the computer maker started selling its first smartphone in the U.S., the Aero.

The new device utilizes Google Relevant Products/Services's open-source Android operating system, has a 3.5-inch 640x360 touchscreen with pinch-to-zoom functionality, and is available for $99 with a two-year AT&T contract, or $299 by itself.

It's no longer such a strange scenario. Work on a project begins on one person's computer before it's sent on via email for other people to weigh in and make changes.

"This can lead to duplication and someone ends up doing the work twice, which can make agreement difficult," says Herbert Braun of c't, a German computer magazine.

Google Relevant Products/Services is moving to improve its search Relevant Products/Services  engine with new acquisitions and new test features that could help it ward off its emerging competitor Bing. On Friday, Google acquired Like.com, a startup search engine that combines computer vision and machine learning to deliver shopping search results.

It's riskier than ever to get on the Internet. Cybercriminals use tricks to get you to click on infectious Web links in e-mail, social-network postings and even search Relevant Products/Services engine results.

Simply navigating to a well-known, legitimate Web site can result in what's known as a "drive-by download," the stealthy installing of a computer infection onto your PC's hard drive.

Things are heating up in the mobile Relevant Products/Services-ad world. As Research In Motion searches for an acquisition in the emerging space, Apple is putting the kibosh on the mobile-ad company it purchased earlier this year.

Apple purchased Quattro Wireless in January for $275 million. That buy came on the heels of Google Relevant Products/Services's announced plan to scoop up AdMob for $750 million last November. Fast forward nearly a year, and not much has changed in the mobile-ad space from a practical standpoint.

Although Google Relevant Products/Services  pulled the plug on consumer sales of its pioneering Nexus One in May, a "substantial" quantity of the Android-based smartphones has been snapped up by registered application developers in the past two weeks. In fact, Google said Thursday that the mobile Relevant Products/Services device is selling so well that the Nexus One is currently unavailable.

As a satirical performer on TV's Saturday Night Live and elsewhere, Al Franken has been an active user of the First Amendment. On Thursday, the now-Senator Franken told a public hearing in his home state of Minnesota that "Net neutrality is the First Amendment issue of our time."

While Franken was speaking, it appears that a group of Internet service providers were meeting in private -- sparking another controversy -- to discuss their approach to an open Internet.

Still on top but losing market share to Google Relevant Products/Services and Apple, Finland-based handset maker Nokia will acquire a U.S. mobile Relevant Products/Services-analytics company to study how consumers use its phones. The data Relevant Products/Services  from privately held Motally, which has only eight employees, may help attract developers and publishers for Qt, Symbian, MeeGo and Java applications that can enhance Nokia phones and make them more competitive.

A page on Facebook is a must-have marketing tool for every business. But there are advantages to building a social media page outside of Facebook's walls.

For small, new companies, drawing friends and fans outside your personal group of Facebook friends can be difficult. And those who do "like" the page may not see the company's updates on his or her news feed, because Facebook uses a formula that only shows updates from 250 friends and pages that the user interacts with the most.

Google Relevant Products/Services  Inc. said Thursday it would double the amount of time Germans have to opt out of having their homes shown in its "Street View" feature, which has sparked a fierce public debate over privacy concerns.

Germans will now have eight weeks, instead of four, to request images of their homes be deleted, Philipp Schindler, Google's vice president for Northern and Central Europe said in a statement.

The more phones that hit the market using Google Relevant Products/Services's Android operating software, the harder it is for each offering to stand out from the black-and-silver crowd.

Samsung is the latest company trying to turn heads, hoping consumers will snatch up its new Galaxy S smart phones, which are both attractive on the surface and well-appointed under the hood.

As it watches Android and Apple eat away at its smartphone market share, Research In Motion is looking for ways to win the attention of consumers and developers. RIM reportedly hopes to attract developers with a yet-to-be purchased mobile Relevant Products/Services-ad network that would pull in application makers and potentially bring consumers with them.

A business consultant wants a court to force YouTube and owner Google Relevant Products/Services to unmask a cyber cipher who posted what she says are unauthorized videos of her and online comments that hurt her reputation.

What do a public relations firm in Boston, a digital shop in Minneapolis, and an ad agency in Albuquerque have in common? A small client in St. Louis. At first glance, relying on three businesses for specialized marketing services might seem odd, but it's not.

India may ask Google Relevant Products/Services  and Skype for greater access to encrypted information once it resolves security concerns with BlackBerrys, which are now under threat of a ban, according to a government document and two people familiar with the discussions.

Instead of fighting over the TV remote control, Verizon FIOS customers in the same household will soon be able to access the fiber-optic provider's shows via Wi-Fi on a tablet device so they can watch in different rooms.

Worried that your Facebook postings could someday catch up with you? No problem, says Google Relevant Products/Services CEO Eric Schmidt. Just change your name.

That's a possible solution the executive suggested in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal. "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," he told the newspaper. In fact, he suggested, someday every young person will be entitled to automatically change his or her name upon reaching adulthood because of the embarrassing online history left over from their youth.

Even as Yahoo tries to reinvent itself and Microsoft's Bing tries to define itself, Google Relevant Products/Services remains the clear search Relevant Products/Services  champ. That's the takeaway from the new monthly survey by comScore, which puts Google's market share at 65.8 percent in July, with Yahoo remaining in second place at 17.1 percent and Bing third at 11 percent.

As Google Relevant Products/Services  Android-powered smartphones catch up with Apple's iPhone, rumors are again swirling about a Google tablet that would square off with Apple's iPad in the holiday shopping season. News reports are pointing to a tablet based on Google's Chrome operating system that would launch on Black Friday.

The long-prophesied age of mobile ads is upon us. But it's not Research In Motion or Motorola dominating the landscape -- it's Apple, which didn't even have a mobile device when pundits were proclaiming that mobile ads would one day drive millions in ad sales.

Rather than expanding on a proposal from two large companies with a vested interest in the outcome, formal FCC action is needed, said Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), and Mike Doyle (D-Penn.).

Apple's iPad may have the tablet field to itself at the moment, but a variety of competitors are lacing up their shoes. Within the next few months, tablets are expected from Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, ASUS, LG Electronics, Research In Motion, Dell and others. But they better move fast, since there are reports that Apple is planning a smaller seven-inch iPad 2 for release as early as Christmas.

Google Relevant Products/Services  isn't the only company making cash acquisitions to compete in the next round of the Web 2.0 battle. Facebook just made another acquisition.

According to D: All Things Digital, the social-networking giant scooped up Chai Labs for about $10 million in what appears to be a talent acquisition more than a technology acquisition. But Facebook could leverage both as it positions against a possible Google social-media attack.

In the growing firmament of the tablets category, there will soon be a new Galaxy. According to information based on a firmware update for the not-yet-released P1000 Galaxy Tab tablet computer from Samsung, the new device could become one of the challengers to the undisputed king of tablets, Apple's iPad.

Amid a storm of opposition from consumer groups and some Internet-based companies for its joint proposal with Verizon Wireless on how to handle Net neutrality, Google Relevant Products/Services is now defending its position. On Thursday, the search Relevant Products/Services giant sought to shoot down what it described as six "myths" about the proposal.

Oracle announced Thursday that it has sued Google Relevant Products/Services  for patent and copyright infringements relating to the use of Java in Google's open-source Android operating system. "In developing Android," Oracle said, "Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property," adding that the lawsuit "seeks appropriate remedies."

In the next five years outsourcing as we know it will disappear. The legion of Indian service providers will be sidelined or absorbed. U.S. and European companies that pioneered this corner of the high tech industry will suffer similar fates if they don't wake up. Who will emerge as the new leaders? Google Relevant Products/Services and Amazon.com, brands that we associate with search Relevant Products/Services and retail, will become better known for outsourcing.

If your Android phone already seems more like a personal assistant, wait until you have the ability to give it orders. Google Relevant Products/Services's Android 2.2 now features Voice Search with Voice Actions, an app that enables smartphones to set reminders and alarms, take dictation for and send e-mails or texts, browse the Internet, get directions, or search Relevant Products/Services for music.