Chinese Government Intervenes in China Unicom over Unfair iPhone Selling Rules

Chinese Government has just reprimanded the China’s second largest mobile phone provider, China Unicom, which is the only authorized operator of iPhone in the area, over unfair rules introduced as recent as last month.

China Unicom is the exclusive cellular company in mainland China allowed to sell the Apple iPhone. Taking advantage of this liberty, The Next Web reported in November, that China Unicom has astonishingly threatened to freeze the accounts of iPhone owners who removed their SIM cards from their phones.  This step is taken with the intention to neutralize the recently developed frequent customer practice of signing up with China Unicom to buy iPhone, and later cutting down their existing China Mobile SIM cards to use in their iPhones.  China Mobile, another SIM provider, has lately been encouraging its subscribers to do this by providing a free SIM cutting service and a telephone hotline to help users switch between different networks.

Google Confesses Trespassing Private Property While Gathering Data for Google Maps

After a long procedure and fatigue, Google finally confessed that it is actually guilty of trespassing in Pennsylvania family’s property in order to acquire data for its street view service. As a consequence Google will now have to pay a penalty of $1 to Aaron and Christine Boring, who sued Google in 2008, expecting to seek penalty for damages done on trespassing charges.

It was in 2008, When the Google View car entered and photographed the private property of the Borings in Pittsburgh, and they charged Google Inc. of invasion of privacy, negligence, unjust enrichment and trespassing, however the photo was still published later in Google Maps.

Google’s Social Project May Be Codenamed As ‘Emerald Sea’

Not long ago, Google confessed that they are delaying the introduction of social networking project, as they failed to meet its original target of launching in 2010, whereas they didn’t even provide any reviewed date to look forward to. Although regardless of the secretiveness and lack of complete announcements, as happens with every big upcoming project, some bits and pieces of the internal procedure and outline of we should expect are leaking out one after another.