Google acted again Tuesday to ensure that will be a dominant player in the increasingly important mobile market. It clearly wants to avoid what happened to other tech…
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Google is still the 800-pound gorilla
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What’s Google’s next plan for mobile?
Tuesday is a big day for those trying to figure out just what Google is planning for the increasingly important mobile phone market.
The Internet giant has…
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Google’s privacy PR meaningless until CEO Schmidt gets it
Last Friday Google’s Christine Chen, posted an article about the Internet giant’s approach to privacy, complete with a set of 20 slides, but such efforts are nothing but empty public relations gestures until CEO Eric Schmidt demonstrates he gets it.
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Comparing Democratic, GOP fundraisers
Both the Democratic and Republican Senate campaign committees are holding big fundraisers — the Democrats today at Google headquarters and the Republicans on Monday and Tuesday at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC. Consumer Watchdog objected to the Democratic event.
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Will City of L.A. jump into Google’s cloud?
I spent all afternoon Monday waiting at the LA City Council Budget Committee to give the Council members my two minutes on why Google’s proposal to put the City’s computing into its cloud could be dangerous. In a nutshell: Security,…
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DC Dispatch: The week in review
Things got busy fast this week in DC as Congress returned from the month-long summer break.
Finance committee chair Sen. Max Baucus released his long-awaited health reform proposal on Tuesday after months of closed-door meetings…
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Following the money in L.A.’s proposed Google email deal
L.A. City council is wrestling with a proposal to shift the city’s 30,000 email users and other computer applications to a system provided by Google. Anytime a deal like this is under consideration, it’s worth checking the money trail. I examined records kept by the Los Angeles Ethics Commission to see who paid what to whom.
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Google seeks spinmeisters
Internet giant Google is seeking communications personnel to get its story out to the world and counter what it calls negative press.
According to an …
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L.A. Council committee signs off on Google email plan with caveats
The Los Angeles City Council’s Information Technology and General Services (ITGS) Committee on Tuesday
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Tough questions needed on Google email plan for L.A.
A Los Angeles City Council committee on Tuesday takes up a …