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T he Canadian Supreme Court has put Google on its heels, ruling that search results must be scrubbed clean all over the globe. In a case that had one company asking that Google remove search results of a rival, the courts ruled that those results must be banished the world over, not just Canada. It’s an odd precedent, and one that could have a lasting snowball effect. It goes like this: One company is trying to stop another from selling network devices, claiming they are using stolen trade information. Part of that lawsuit insists Google remove links to the Defendants 300+ websites, where they’re selling the devices. Pretty thorough for the Plaintiff, but the Supreme Court has taken it a step further. The highest court has granted a temporary injunction, saying that within 14 days, Google must remove links to the company’s sites. Not only must they do so for Canada, but the court has ruled that Google must do so in every country. The links will have disappeared from se

Amazon's new smartphone, the Fire Phone, hits stores July 25. Preorders started June 18. At the phone's launch event, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that the company tried to build a phone that was extremely innovative and different. There are some major features that set it apart right off the bat, including its "dynamic perspective" effects, which make images feel 3-D, its motion-sensing capabilities, and Firefly, its visual search engine.  Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions. Amazon shows off its dynamic perspective feature right from the lock screen. When you tilt the phone, you see the balloons from slightly different angles so they feel 3-D. Although you can use any picture you want as a lock screen, the Fire ships with more than a dozen custom images that will take advantage of dynamic perspective. The Fire also shows off dynamic perspective working tog

BANGALORE : Mozilla is reportedly planning on launching a Smartphone costing as low as $25 for the Indian markets according to the inputs on the Wall Street journal. The company has announced a tie-up with the Indian OEMs like the Intex and Spice to bring its Firefox OS phones, reports Times Of India. Mozilla will work with the Chinese chipset manufacturer Spreadtrum, to develop the chipsets which will cost low and let the handset manufacturers to keep the price of the Smartphone cheap. There is no word on the specifications of the phone as yet, but the company says the phone will be available in India sometime this year. "Intex is excited to announce its association with Mozilla which will enable us to develop unparalleled smart devices on the latest Firefox OS platform”, said Mr. Sanjay Kumar Kalirona, Business Head, Mobile, Intex Technologies."The platform will give us an edge in upgrading buyers from feature phones to Smartphones while making it affordable for the

WASHINGTON : MIT researchers have developed a new technology that tracks how your private data is used online. Researchers in the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are developing a protocol they call "HTTP with Accountability," or HTTPA, which will automatically monitor the transmission of private data and allow the data owner to examine how it's being used. At the IEEE's Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust next month in Toronto, Oshani Seneviratne, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, and Lalana Kagal, a principal research scientist at CSAIL, will present a paper that gives an overview of HTTPA. With HTTPA, each item of private data would be assigned its own uniform resource identifier (URI) that would convert the Web from, essentially, a collection of searchable text files into a giant database. Remote access to

The quickest way to keep up on the World Cup may be Google. People in the U.S. searching for countries playing in the World Cup will see, at the top of the results, links to highlight videos from the country’s most recent match. Clicking takes users to the website of ESPN, the exclusive domestic English-language broadcaster of the world’s premier soccer tournament. The first-of-its-kind partnership between ESPN and Google gives Google  an edge among competitors  Yahoo  and  Bing on World Cup searches. All three search engines are trying to make it easy to get the latest scores and scheduling details by typing in a country’s name or even just “World Cup.” But watching the early-round games, most of which are in the afternoon or early evening in the U.S., is difficult for those without access to ESPN. Watching the highlights doesn’t require any television subscription, and ESPN said that the highlight clips will show up on search results “as they happen.” “As befits th

WASHINGTON: Since the report about stored passwords just a URL away on its Chrome web browser, Google has reportedly decided to hide users' credentials in a bid to increase secure browsing. The search giant has built Chromium for OS X , which includes an option that requires users to authenticate with their computer's system password before it will allow access to the list of stored passwords. According to The Verge, the site earlier allowed access to the passwords by navigating to chrome://Settings/Passwords in the browser and showed up all of the login/password data a user saved on Chrome. The company suggests that users should lock their systems when not using it so as to save it from any vulnerability of being exploited, the report added.