In the latest shot fired in Google's ongoing battle with Microsoft, Google announced today that it's taking this fight to the streets. Literally.

It's been a nasty week for iPhone users. Apple has buckled to pressure from AT&T and denied Google's Voice application from the App Store: a nifty service that helps you consolidate phones and manage your voicemail online.

Now this is ridiculous. Not only did Apple pull all the unofficial Google Voice apps out of the App Store for an absurd reason, now they expect the developers of those apps to fund refunds out of their own pockets..

Right about now, Apple probably wishes it had never rejected Google Voice and related apps from the iPhone. Or maybe it was AT&T who rejected the apps. Nobody really knows. But the FCC launched an investigation last night to find out, sending letters to all three companies (Apple, AT&T, and Google)...

Hackers have taken revenge on the music industry after Romanias first convicted file-sharer was given a heavy fine. The industry said they had selected the individual at random, but hackers responded rather less randomly by causing the music industry website to blocked as malicious by both Google and Firefox.

Its been a long and confusing week for Kevin Duerr, thanks to Apples stubborn belief that its perfectly fine to conduct business as if you are high-level government officials from a particularly snarky banana republic.

After Starbucks announced that its Wi-Fi HotSpots would be available for iPhone users, B&N has announced complimentary Wi-Fi for any customer that visits a Barnes & Noble bookstore nationwide. All customers can freely download and preview any of the over 700,000 eBook titles with hundreds of thousands of public domain titles available from Google.

GV Mobile developer Sean Kovacs relays a phone call he had with Apple where he was notified of his app being removed from the iTunes store for duplicating built-in iPhone features -- an app that was originally and purportedly approved by Phil Schiller himself.

Google is leaving reader privacy behind. Without strong privacy protections, all of your browsing and reading history may be collected, tracked, and turned over to the government or third parties without your knowledge or consent.