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Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives
Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.
Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices
Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.
Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices
This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »August 04, 2006 — CIO —
Google has struck a licensing agreement with The Associated Press that grants the search engine company permission to use the wire service’s material in a broader manner than it currently does.
The news comes as Google is embroiled in litigation with another global wire service, Agence France Presse, which is suing Google for including its material in the Google News search and aggregation website.
That case centers on the inclusion of Agence France Presse text snippets, photo thumbnails and headlines linked to articles in external websites. Google News aggregates links to online articles and accompanying photos from about 4,500 news outlets.
Agence France Presse maintains that the practice amounts to copyright violation because Google hasn’t licensed the material it is using. Google counters that it is protected by the fair-use principle, which allows for limited use of copyright material. Google also argues that copyright law doesn’t protect headlines, text snippets and thumbnail images.
The licensing agreement with The Associated Press is intended to let Google use original content for future features and products, and it doesn’t affect the current use of AP material in Google News, a Google spokeswoman said via e-mail on Thursday.
"We are very excited about the innovative new products we will build with full access to this [Associated Press] content," she wrote. "Google News is fully consistent with fair use and always has been."
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service (Miami Bureau)
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