How To: Escape From Google’s Clutches, Once and For All

Interesting article from GIZMODO from my friend Marshall Sponder (via GoogleBuzz)
So you’re fed up with Google, and you’ve got a litany of reasons. You don’t even have to explain—I’m just here to help you crawl out from under the shadow of the big G, step by step.
You don’t have to be ready to commit to [...]

Juliette Powell: Digital Literacy–Not Just For Kids Anymore!

Interesting HuffPo article from our good friend author and digital media strategist, Juliette Powell
What happens if someone posts an unflattering, or worse, a scandalous or compromising picture of you on Facebook? What are your rights? That’s a sensitivity that we need to start nurturing by training our kids — and our employees — to use [...]

Google to offer high speed broadband: in nyc?

I received the following email from my friend Richard Reisman
I am sending this to MITEF-NYC board and to NYTech, NYEW, and various others who might have the resources/networks to respond to the RFI to get this service in trial in NYC.
This seems like something where a multi-group effort is desirable, and maybe an NYC [...]

The New AOL or shall I say Aol. coming tomorrow!

Interesting article from CNNMoney
The new AOL faces a tough fight
The former dial-up giant is being split off from Time Warner in its latest attempt at a comeback. This time, it may work.
By David Goldman, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Last Updated: December 9, 2009: 9:56 AM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — AOL begins a new chapter Thursday, a day [...]

Inside The Mind of Google on CNBC

Interesting program on CNBC this week: “Inside the Mind of Google”
CNBC ORIGINAL TAKES A RARE LOOK AT THE MOST POWERFUL AND SUCCESSFUL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY IN THE WORLD
One-Hour Documentary Reported by CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo Premieres on Thursday, December 3rd at 9PM ET/PT
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., November 20, 2009-It’s the window to our modern world…a high-tech economic juggernaut [...]

So, Do You Need to Develop an Android App Too Now?

With next weeks launch of the Verizon “Droid” smartphone, based on the Google Mobile 2.0 platform it now appears as though everyone who has been developing apps for the iPhone now need to consider the Droid. My good buddy, Eric Bader, is an expert in the field of mobile marketing and was quoted in an [...]

LA: The First Googletown?

This makes sense…
from the L.A. Times
Los Angeles adopts Google e-mail system for 30,000 city employees
October 27, 2009 | 2:18 pm
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously today to outsource its e-mail system to Google Inc., making it the largest city in the nation to make the move and handing the Web search giant a [...]

WSJ NEWS ALERT: Google’s Schmidt Quits Apple’s Board

News Alert from The Wall Street Journal
Sponsored by NASDAQ OMX
Apple announced that Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, is resigning from Apple’s board, a position he has held since August 2006.
In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that “as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as [...]

Google launches frontal attack on Microsoft

Excellent article from the “Financial Times” today regarding the new Google “Chrome” operating system set to launch in 2010
By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco
Published: July 9 2009
If it was anyone but Google, the announcement that a new Linux-based operating system was being developed for PCs would have been greeted with a collective online yawn yesterday.

Time Warner to split off AOL

from CNNMoney
Time Warner CEO Bewkes calls separation ‘best outcome’ for both companies.
By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Last Updated: May 28, 2009: 5:02 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Time Warner unveiled plans Thursday to spin off AOL as an independent company, an end to the massive media marriage formed in January 2001.
“We believe that a separation [...]

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