According to a recent revelation by the French National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties (CNIL), European data protection officials will summon Internet search giant's representatives over concerns about the company's controversial user data-collection mechanism.

In a statement which implies that the US recording industry is disappointed with Google anti-piracy efforts, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has recently said that there has thus far been "no evidence" to show that the Internet search giant has effectively executed any plans to demote sites that feature pirated content.

The NBC Today Show has revealed that a Russian woman - Marina Voinova – recently got the shock of her life when, while using the Street View feature to search for an address, she spotted her fiancé with another woman!

Wellington-based security firm Dimension Data has recently revealed that its Security-Assessment division has found two "significant" vulnerabilities, in the Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and Windows XP systems, which can enable remote parties to gain complete control of a target computer.

According to a recent statement by France's privacy watchdog, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL), Internet search giant's failure to respond to the recommendations which 27 EU regulators unanimously adopted last October may result in the initiation of "a coordinated repressive action" against the company before this summer.

Sometime over this past weekend, the Google Reader service - Google's Web-based RSS feed reader - reportedly went haywire for several users, who inundated the Google Reader forum with complaints about intermittent service.

In a Friday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Internet search giant Google announced that its Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, will likely dispose off nearly 42 percent of his stake in the company, amounting to a total of 3.2 million Class A shares.

On Wednesday, Internet search giant Google released a Google Maps update which augments the company's records about ski resort maps; providing information about 38 new ski resorts in the US and Canada.