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So Google+ notifies me…

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Just saw this in Chrome (on Windows):

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At least I was notified, via the Google+ Notifications Chrome extension, that I will now be notifying Google about more of my Chrome activities (and, in fairness, I could have clicked “Cancel,” in which case I assume I would have seen the warning every few days; I could also uninstall the extension, of course, but I assume Google already has most of the related data anyway…)

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February 1st, 2012 | Category: Google, Privacy | Leave a comment

Google Defends New Privacy Policy – WSJ.com

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Read the WSJ article and then revisit FTC settlement gives Facebook leverage over competitors (Washington Post), for an interesting juxtaposition; also see Google Targets Rival Facebook With Tough New Privacy Policies (Daily Beast/Dan Lyons) 

Google said the changes could improve people’s experience using some of its services. But the company has also indicated to outsiders that the changes may help boost its online-advertising business, which generated nearly $40 billion in revenue last year.

Google said that it isn’t collecting new kinds of information about people and that the policy essentially consolidates dozens of policies that were already in effect for individual Google services. But it added that if… Continue reading: Google Defends New Privacy Policy – WSJ.com

February 1st, 2012 | Category: Advertising, Facebook, Google, Technology and government | Leave a comment

Google Politics & Elections – Google+ – Presidential hangout now on YouTube Missed today’s hangout…

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An impressive use of technology to facilitate constructive political discourse

Missed today’s hangout with President +Barack Obama? Watch the full video below and let us know what you think.

Your Interview with the President – 2012

Google Politics & Elections – Google+ – Presidential hangout now on YouTube Missed today’s hangout…

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January 31st, 2012 | Category: Google, Technology and politics | Leave a comment

Google Reincarnates Dead Paper Mill as Data Center of Future | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

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Sign of the times

Google’s Finland data center is the ultimate metaphor for the Internet Age (Photos: Google)

Joe Kava found himself on the southern coast of Finland, sending robotic cameras down an underground tunnel that stretched into the Baltic Sea. It’s not quite what he expected when he joined Google to run its data centers.

In February of 2009, Google paid about $52 million for an abandoned paper mill in Hamina, Finland, after deciding that the 56-year-old building was the ideal place to build one of the massive computing facilities that serve up its myriad online services…. Continue reading: Google Reincarnates Dead Paper Mill as Data Center of Future | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

January 30th, 2012 | Category: Google, Newspaper 2.0, Print | Leave a comment

Will Google have to start a patent war to get $9bn of value from Motorola? | Technology | guardian.co.uk

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From a GOOG/MMI reality check

The really profitable bit of the business is the "Home" division, which makes set-top boxes, but has been bumping along at around $900m revenues for the past year. It actually makes money – only around $60m per quarter, but at least it’s profit, compared to the consistent losses in the mobile business, which has only made a profit in two of the past nine quarters. Even so, it would take 75 years for the Home business’s profit to make back the money Google paid for the business.

In other words, in purely financial terms, MMI is a dog.

Faced with all that, it looks increasingly… Continue reading: Will Google have to start a patent war to get $9bn of value from Motorola? | Technology | guardian.co.uk

January 30th, 2012 | Category: Google, Motorola | Leave a comment
 
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