Screw Google, yeah!

More Chapters from the Bad vs. Bad vs. Bad contests:

"Microsoft is at the center of a group of companies who see Google as a threat to them in some combination of business and policy," said a source familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to avoid retribution. "The effort is designed make Google look like the big high-tech bad guy here."

The meetings have occurred as frequently as once a week, sources with knowledge of the meetings say.

Read all of this "Räubergeschichte" at Daily Finance.

Apple too, walks el Sendero Luminoso

Apple: “In addition, the iPhone user’s entire Contacts database is transferred to Google’s servers, and we have yet to obtain any assurances from Google that this data will only be used in appropriate ways. These factors present several new issues and questions to us that we are still pondering at this time.”

Reality: Complete fabrication, way beyond misleading. The Google Voice app can access the iPhone’s contacts database, like thousands of other iPhone apps. But the Google Voice app never syncs the contacts database to their own servers. There is no option for users to do this. However, Apple offers the ability to sync iPhone contacts with Google via iTunes. So not only is Apple’s statement untrue, but they also provide this exact feature themselves via their own service.

Den Rest gibt es in "The Truth: What’s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC" auf Techcrunch.

Die Google Antwort auf die entsprechende FCC-Anfrage wurde auf ScribD nicht mit allen Einzelantworten (confidential) veröffentlicht.