Eric Schmidt --- Net Neutrality

This is a letter from Eric Schmidt pleading with the American public to get involved in the debate and vote over net neutrality.  It will be interesting to see what happens if net neutrality doesn...

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Eric Schmidt Doesn't Like his Own Philandering

Eric Schmidt has sent out the legal hounds to get his mistress to take down her blog. Apparently her blogging spilled over into his privacy bubble.Reminder: this is the same man who said: "If you have...

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Wil Shipley on Apple's Patent Claims against HTC

Here Wil Shipley is commenting on Apple's decision to sue HTC, the cell phone maker who uses Google's operating system, Android for infringement of a number of patents. Some of the back story here is...

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Prior Art on the Google PageRank Patent?

Here's an article about how a historian of ideas at the University of Udine in Italy has found a forerunner to the PageRank algorithm by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. This is just an example of how dodgy...

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Google Buzz Already has Privacy Problems

Google Buzz is Google's latest attempt to jump into the social networking game after the failure of Orkut in most of the world. It is run out of Gmail and, apparently, it does a lot of automatic "follows...

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Google's DNS Proposal

This is worth passing along:Google Wants to See Client Addresses in DNS QueriesWhat is this, why should you care? DNS stands for Domain Name System. The Domain Name System is what translates internet...

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Fun Fact Coming From the Google China Story

Why only subject lines? If the attackers could get access to subject lines, why couldn't they access entire e-mails? Apparently because the hackers infiltrated automated systems set up to provide such...

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Google reviewing China Policy

Good on ya, Google! It seems that they haven't  moved completely to the dark side ;-) .

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Productivity hints, tips, hacks and tricks for graduate students and professors

Consolidate email accounts All of my email accounts forward into GMail, so I have one place to check, and I don't miss emails. Through IMAP, I keep all of my emails synchronized with my iPhone...

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