After U. S. District Judge William Alsup sternly rebuked Oracle for going on a "fishing expedition" for damages that were apparently beyond the standard sum for copyright infringement, Oracle has now gone for broke in its high-profile Java lawsuit against Google.

Making an all-or-next-to-nothing bet in its legal scuffle with Google, Oracle said in a Tuesday statement that in case Judge Alsup says in his verdict that the Java APIs are not subject to copyright, the company will withdraw its claim for extensive damages from Google for violating copyrights pertaining to other Java components.

Popular search engine Google never misses a chance to celebrate a special occasion. On Sunday, Google posted a special animated doodle to commemorate Mother's Day.

The special doodle featured two young `Os' rushing towards their mother `g' to give her a flower. Once clicked, the search giant used to take the user to a search results page Mother's Day.

The search results page threw light on the origin of the Mother's Day, and other fascinating facts about the holiday.

With the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) giving its approval to the US' first autonomous vehicle license to Google on Monday, the roads in the state will apparently have Google's self-driven cars running on them.

Close on the heels of Google CEO Larry Page's recent statement - in an open letter posted on his Google+ page on Thursday - that the fledgling Google+ social network now boasts over 100 million `active' users, new Experian Hitwise statistics have revealed that there was a 27 percent increase in the number of visits to Google+ between February and March.

According to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report citing information shared by Verizon Communications CEO Lowell McAdam, the carrier has plans underway to offer an "integrated" wireless video service by the end of this year; making it possible for pay-TV subscribers to view some content on their mobile devices.

Google has been asked to answer a list of sixty-nine questions about its ads and privacy policies as French regulators want to determine if the mobile devices and apps running on Google's Android platform violate European privacy rules.

The Financial Times reported that French privacy watchdog called CNIL is concerned that the Internet search giant's controversial new privacy policy breaches European privacy rules.

According to the paper, CNIL has asked Google to answer its questions by 5th of April this year.

In a recent confirmation of reports that Regina Dugan - the director of Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) - has been hired by Google, the Internet search giant said in a released statement that one of Pentagon's most tech-forward leaders was indeed heading to a new job at the company.

Despite the fact that Google has yet to disclose the role which Dugan will take on at the company, it did mention in the statement that that the company was "thrilled" that Dugan was "joining the team" at Google.

With the present-day data-guzzling smartphones and tablets creating exasperating digital traffic jams, largely because of the ever-increasing downloads, Google and other bigwig tech companies are now competing with one another on the `speed' front - each looking to outdo the other and emerge the quickest!

The tech companies' latest quest for speed is apparently a result of the discovery by Google engineers that Internet users apparently search less if they have to wait for even a few seconds for their computer to respond to their click on a website or a tap on the keyboard.

Google+, Internet search giant Google's social networking service that aims to challenge Facebook, will have 400 million users by the end of 2012, Ancestry. com's founder Paul B. Allen estimated.

According to Allen, who describes himself Google+'s informal statistician, Google+ is gaining around 625,000 new users per day and thus will be able to finish 2012 with 400 million users.

Announcing his estimates, Allen wrote in a blog post, "There is no question that the number of new users signing up for Google+ each day has accelerated markedly in the past several weeks."

Google's latest TV commercial aims to highlight the benefits of `Hangouts', the groups video service within the Internet search giant's social networking platform Google Plus.

The Muppet-promoted commercial tries to convince that Hangouts service is not only for business purposes; rather it has plenty of everyday uses for family and friends also.

In the commercial, the Muppets are making use of Google Plus for an unrehearsed band session, rocking out to a cover of the Queen and David Bowie teamwork, "Under Pressure," through Hangout.