CBS talks about liberal Internet Companies. Google, Facebook, AOL
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Microsoft Corp., which owns Hotmail, has given 53 percent of its campaign donations to Democrats since 1990, and 46 percent to Republicans. Time Warner (home of AOL) has given 72 percent to Democrats, while Google's PAC has given about $103,000 to Democrats and $72,000 to Republicans in the 2010 campaign cycle. (The company's employees give largely to Democrats.) |
House Dems Block White House Witness in Google Email Breach
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| House Dems Block White House Witness in Google Email Breach By Alana Goodman Created 07/23/2010 - 15:00 The effort by House Republicans to investigate email practices at the White House hit a wall yesterday, when a motion to subpoena the White House deputy chief technology officer was blocked by Democrats during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing. Subcommittee Ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-NC) demanded a recorded vote on a motion to subpoena White House technology officer Beth Noveck, after saying that the absence of a White House witness “undermines the purposes of the hearing and prevents us from doing our job... |
Google's Government Conundrum (The Greed of Google Consumes Us All)
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| ...On the one front, Google is heading a major coalition lobbying for so-called "Net Neutrality" rules to regulate the Internet for the first time in history. The effort would essentially turn private Internet service providers (ISPs) into public utilities, by giving the Federal Communications Commission vague authority to dictate how ISPs manage their networks that comprise the Internet. A win would solidify Google’s powerful place in the market while undercutting ISPs; it would give Google permission to continue “free-riding” across ISPs networks with the government’s blessing. Yet, Google now finds itself in the unusual position of fighting back against the... |
Geology Picture of the Week Extra: GoogleEarth searcher finds pristine impact crater in Egypt
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| The header link goes to the article on space.com. Basic story is that an Italian guy who sounds like a hobbyist (former curator of a science museum) found the feature while tooling around on GoogleEarth. Since it's in the remote desert, it's hardly changed since impact -- even has ejecta rays. There's a problem here; most models indicate that an object the likely size of this object should disintegrate in the atmosphere. This one obviously didn't. Abstract in Science magazine (you'd have to pay to read the whole thing) The Kamil Crater in Egypt Fresh crater in Egypt -- increases... |
Google loses out in Chinese search engine market
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| Google’s share of the Chinese search engine market fell in the second quarter while the US Internet giant was embroiled in a public battle with Beijing over censorship, a research firm said on Wednesday. |
Top Secret America grows out of control
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| The top secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work. These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by the Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending... |
Apple's Biggest Fear
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| Apple's Biggest Fear By: David Sterman Staff Writer StreetAuthority Published: July 13, 2010 In the land of consumer technology, it's hard to stay as the king of the hill. Two decades ago, Sony (NYSE: SNE) ruled the roost, with its hot-selling Walkmans and Trinitron TVs. About a decade ago, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) looked poised to dominate the global cell phone market, and more recently, Motorola's (NYSE: MOT) RAZR set that company up for a long-term run as a consumer favorite. All those companies can now be seen in Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) rear-view mirror. With each passing year, Apple's brand only... |
Why Google loves Democrats so much
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| After donating just $250 in the year 2000, Google’s employees have been handing out cash hand over fist, almost exclusively to Democrats. In the 2008 election cycle, Schmidt campaigned actively for candidate Barack Obama from very early in primaries. Schmidt and his Google colleagues donated over $800,000 to Obama’s war chest, making the company one of his top-five contributors. The Democratic giving bias at Google has continued in the 2010 cycle. This year according to data gathered from the website OpenSecrets.org, Google employees have donated over $270,000 to Democrats and liberal campaign groups. They’ve given just $45,000 to Republicans and... |
A Man Who Took Life's Business Lemons and Made His Own Business Lemonade
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| After getting frustrated out of the lemons his problems gave him, David Miller made his own corporate lemonade. Due to the frustration of always having to call technical support to solve his own frequent hardware problems, he started taking the initiative to educate himself. |
Net neutrality comes back to haunt Google
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| Google has become the main advocate in Washington for a set of regulations to prevent internet service providers favouring particular companies’ traffic. However, that campaign, over what is known as “net neutrality”, has handed a gift to its own detractors. This year, “search neutrality” has become the rallying cry of activists who believe that Google has too much power to decide which internet sites are granted the attention that comes with a high search ranking, and which are consigned to outer darkness. After regulating the “pipes” of the internet with net neutrality, says Frank Pasquale, a professor at Seton Hall... |
Issa eyes Google in investigating White House e-mail abuses (WH Aides using GMail)
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| Top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, is broadening the scope of his investigation into technology-related ethics and legal problems for the White House to include Google – a company in possession of personal e-mails of many White House aides. In a July 9 letter, Issa asks Google to outline how it is storing the personal e-mails of key Obama administration officials and how the Mountain View, Calif., company plans to respond to federal subpoenas. Republicans are threatening to take control of the House in November’s midterm elections, which would give Issa the authority to demand Google hand... |
Vanity: Swastika on my Freerepublic URL window
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| A tiny swastika appears on my "URL window" when I'm on Freerepublic. |
Google's Street View 'snoops' on Congress members
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| Google's popular Street View project may have collected personal information of members of Congress, including some involved in national security issues. The claim was made by leading advocacy group, Consumer Watchdog which wants Congress to hold hearings into what data Google's Street View possesses. |
Google Today?
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| What's up with that mono-brow lady on Google today? Anyone have any idea who that is? |
A Google Tribute - July 7 (they don't give up)
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| Today is the birthday of Frida Kahlo, born in Mexico on 6 July 1907, and Google USA has decorated its homepage in honour of this socialist feminist icon. Quite right too. Kahlo was one of the most fascinating portraitists of the 20th century. Her subject was herself, but her character, adventures, sufferings and talent made her more than worthy of her own scrutiny. |
Google to Pay Homosexual Staff More than Heterosexual Employees
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A news release from Google says that the mega-search engine company will begin paying its homosexual employees more than their heterosexual counterparts.Citing a tax law that says health insurance benefits paid to civil partners of homosexual employees are considered taxable income, while benefits provided to married spouses are not taxed, Google announced it will rectify the tax "discrimination" against homosexuals by paying them the difference.On average an extra $1,069 per year will be given to homosexuals, according to a NY Times report.The company said on its blog Thursday, that it will be “grossing-up imputed taxes... |
Google plans to pay gay employees more (Not a joke!)
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| Google is set to begin covering a cost that gay and lesbian employees must pay when their partners receive domestic partner health benefits, according to a report in the New York Times. The cost is largely to compensate these workers for an extra tax that heterosexual married couples do not pay. The increase will be retroactive to the beginning of the year, the newspaper said. Google is not the first large company to make up for the extra tax, the Times reported, adding that Google’s move could inspire its Silicon Valley competitors to follow suit, as they compete for the... |
Android Also Gives Google Remote App Installation Power
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| The remote-wipe capability that Google recently invoked to remove a harmless application from some Android phones isn't the only remote control feature that the company built into its mobile OS. It turns out that Android also includes a feature that enables Google to remotely install apps on users' phones as well. Jon Oberheide, the security researcher who developed the application that Google remotely removed from Android phones, noticed during his research that the Android OS includes a feature called INSTALL_ASSET that allows Google to remotely install applications on users' phones. "I don't know what design decision they based that on.... |
Schwarzenegger Flexes Muscle for Moscow, While Obama Ignores Warnings from Russian Dissidents
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| "SCHWARZENEGGER FLEXES MUSCLE FOR MOSCOW, WHILE OBAMA IGNORES WARNINGS FROM RUSSIAN DISSIDENTS" International News Analysis Today June 29, 2010 By Toby Westerman SNIPPET: "California governor, and former film superhero, Arnold Schwarzenegger has pledged to lead a trade mission to Russia and assist "in any way possible" Russia's drive to develop its own high tech "Silicon Valley." U.S. president Barack Obama has also promised his backing in facilitating the flow of U.S. technology to Russia. The eager participation of Schwarzenegger and Obama in exporting U.S. technological capabilities came during Russian president Dmitry Medvedev's three day visit (June 22-24) to the United... |
Al Qaeda in Gaza on YouTube
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| SNIPPET: "The guy who uploaded it seems to think that he's a cyber-hacker for Allah, too." |
Google’s mismanagement of the Android Market
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| Google’s mismanagement of the Android Market Earlier this week, CNET ran an article critical of the permission model of the Android Market. Google’s response to the criticism was that “each Android app must get users’ permission to access sensitive information”. While this is technically true, one should not need a PhD in Computer Science to use a smartphone. How is a consumer supposed to know exactly what the permission “act as an account authenticator” means? The CNET opinion piece “Is Google far too much in love with engineering?” is quite relevant here.Google does far too little curation of the Android... |
Google bomb in the Obama administration (Conflict of Interest w/Hussein and Google)
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| We have learned of an apparent conflict of interest for a senior Obama administration official already in hot water over questions about his communications with his former employer. Andrew Mclaughlin is the Deputy Chief Technology Officer for the Office of Science & Technology Policy at the White House. His prior job was as the top lobbyist for Google. Last week, Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government reported that privacy flaws in Google Buzz’s social networking tool exposed McLaughlin’s Buzz account to the public. Breitbart’s analysis showed that McLaughlin’s Gmail included more than two dozen senior lobbyists and lawyers from Google with whom... |
Pakistan watches Google, other sites for blasphemy
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan will start monitoring seven major websites, including Google, Yahoo and Amazon, for sacrilegious content, while blocking 17 other, lesser-known sites it deems offensive to Muslims, an official said Friday. The moves follow a temporary ban imposed on Facebook in May that drew both praise and condemnation in a country that has long struggled to figure out how strict a version of Islam it should follow. |
Mystery surrounds 'horse-boy' on Google Street View
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| Mystery surrounds a man wearing a horse's head who has been captured on Google's Street View in Aberdeen. The man - who has become known as "horse-boy" - can be seen in the Hardgate area of the city. The sighting has become a popular attraction on Google's service, which offers a photographic map of streets. The man is wearing dark trousers, a purple shirt - and a brown and white horse's head. Dozens of BBC news website users have e-mailed from across Europe to say they know who horse boy is. Others have sent in images of the mystery horse-head... |
Google's YouTube wins Viacom copyright case
Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:47:41 PM
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| Google has won a landmark ruling as a judge threw out a $1bn lawsuit brought by Viacom accusing the internet giant of allowing copyrighted material on its YouTube service without permission. Viacom had accused Google of "massive intentional copyright infringement". But the Manhattan judge said Google and YouTube could not be held liable merely for having a "general awareness" that videos might be posted illegally. Media conglomerate Viacom said it planned to appeal against the decision. Google called the ruling "an important victory". 'Safe harbour' Viacom had claimed that "tens of thousands of videos" based on its copyrighted works had... |
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