But Google is laying the foundation for new, gigabit-based applications that haven't yet been invented.
Chrome moved past Firefox, an offering by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that Google has helped support, according to the website analytics company StatCounter.
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When we spoke to the Electronic Frontier Foundation about Google Drive's terms of service, the EFF found little about them that was more suspicious than in any other similar cloud service.
Panelists representing Google, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, online retailer Newegg, electronics manufacturer Voxx and Home Automation, Inc. shared horror stories of defending against frivolous patent infringement lawsuits.
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Rebecca Jeschke of the digital rights advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Google's recognition of the problem is encouraging, but that the company has a long way to go in deflecting future privacy concerns.
Google's engineers contribute code to Firefox and pay the foundation a share of advertising when people search Google in the browser's toolbar.
Some of Google's marquee names on the business side have been given new chores to keep them happy: Sheryl Sandberg, who developed Google's ad business, now also helps run its charitable foundation, while whiz salesman Omid Kordestani is heading Google's international expansion.
Investors include Foundation Capital, Google Ventures, and Playdom founder Rick Thomson.
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Earlier this summer The Brin Wojcicki Foundation, started by Google Co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife, donated to The Michael J.
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Others in this space include Pixazza, which is backed by August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures, Shasta Ventures, and Foundation Capital.
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Google ( GOOG - news - people )'s philanthropic arm, Google.org, and the Skoll Foundation to expand his virus-hunting work into new countries.
The self-driving car will making the whole driving experience much more pleasurable, predicted Brad Templeton, the former chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation who has worked extensively with Google on their self-driving car.
An open-source project (whose code can be altered by anybody), Firefox comes from a foundation, across the street from Google's offices, that happens to be based on the remnants of the old Netscape.
She is a strategy consultant who has worked with clients including Google, Yale University, and the Ford Foundation.
Google CEO Larry Page goobristically aspires for Google to be the Internet world and default web foundation to which all other platforms must adapt.
The latter is possible only because Google.org is purposely not structured as a typical foundation.
She is a strategy consultant who has worked with clients including Google, the National Park Service, and the Ford Foundation.
Google is also working with Adobe and Mozilla, the foundation behind the open-source Firefox Web browser to rework how third party technologies, such as Flash, are built into browsers, Upson wrote.
Much has been written about the tug-of-war between Apple and Google in the mobile space, yet two companies provide the foundation for most mobile products: ARM and Qualcomm.
The fact that Google, the industry's new giant, sits on a foundation of open-source code buried the idea that it was not powerful or reliable enough for heavy-duty use.
Partly in response to the resulting interest in online privacy and campaigns by groups like Access Now and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to universalize Web encryption, companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter have all added SSL capabilities.
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And Google co-founder Page has joined the board of the X Prize Foundation, which is now planning a series of new contests to encourage research and development.
The website Chilling Effects, a collaboration between a number of US law schools and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, publishes the notices, and is still visible via Google Search.
What ultimately pushed the Internet cause over the top in the piracy battle was supporting fire from nonprofit groups like the foundation behind Wikipedia, which says it didn't coordinate with Google or other companies.
But they will factor heavily into any settlement terms struck by Google and Viacom, says Fred von Lohmann, senior attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
That nonprofit Wikipedia found itself on the same side of the issue as Google and other big tech companies was coincidence, adds Geoff Brigham, general counsel for Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
Microsoft and Google were early adopters of the scheme, and took seats on the board of the Open ID Foundation in 2007.
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