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The Electronic Privacy Information Center has written to the Federal Trade Commission to look into new features in Google’s search engine. The FTC is already looking into whether Google is breaching antitrust regulations by overly favoring its own products in Google searches. In December, Google signed a consent order with the FTC to settle the Commission’s investigation of Google Buzz, a social network it rolled out in 2010.
A few short months after killing off its Streak 5 and Streak 7 tablets, Dell is apparently discussing plans to make a comeback to the tablet market later this year. The company’s Chief Commercial Officer Steve Felice said that Dell has been lying low and learning from competitors’ mistakes.
A recent report has once again stirred up rumors that Google is planning a tablet of its very own, a product line that could be akin to the company’s series of Nexus Android smartphones. The tablet could debut sometime in March or April of this year, according to the report, and it will be priced to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which retails for $199.
Cisco has reportedly stopped selling its Umi home videoconferencing system. The decision marks the end of a short life for the product, which was launched just over a year ago in October 2010. It’s yet another move by Cisco to reduce its presence in the consumer market, where the company has had difficulty making headway.
Apple will hold an event in New York at the end of the month at which it will make some sort of media-related announcement, according to a recent report. Whatever news Apple shares at the event, it may relate heavily with advertising or publishing, because Eddy Cue is said to be involved. Cue’s in charge of several of Apple’s media units, including the iTunes Store, iBookstore and the company’s iAds platform.