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Google Updates YouTube with Discovery Features

Google is updating the YouTube app for Google TV owners this week, promising performance improvements and easier ways to discover videos you like. Full Story »
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Four Crazy Tech Ideas From Google's Solve for X Project

Google promised radical technology proposals would be a part of its Solve for X project, and its initial offerings so far haven't disappointed.

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Google 'Ready to Lay Fiber' in Kansas City

Google's grand fiber network experiment is now one step closer to becoming a reality as the company announced that it is "ready to lay fiber" in Kansas City, Kan.

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Google Piques Curiosity with Solve for X Website, Video

Google on Monday released a video regarding its Solve for X project, which the company says is "a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems."

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Google Won't Delay New Privacy Policy Despite EU Concerns

Google does not plan to delay its new privacy policy despite calls from Europe's data protection watchdog.

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Google Reveals Android Malware 'Bouncer,' Scans All Apps

Google yesterday unveiled an automated system that scans Android apps for potential malware or unauthorized behavior, a move critics have long called the company to make.

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Google Ordered to Pay Fine for Making Google Maps Free

A French mapping company had sued Google for "abusing" its dominant market position by making its service free.

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Is Google Evil? the Jury is Out

Google's changes to its privacy policy should have been expected. It's what any corporation intent on maximizing value would do. But does that make it right?

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5 Key Points From Google's Privacy-Policy Letter to Congress

Google sent a 13-page letter to Congress this week that can be summarized in a single sentence: "We're not being evil."

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Google Clarifies Privacy Policy Consolidation, Claims it's Not Changing Controls

Google responds to concerns that its March move to a single, unifying privacy policy for all its services is a bait-and-switch.

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In Letter to Congress, Google Defends Privacy Changes

In a letter sent to eight members of Congress, Google yesterday defended its move to consolidate its privacy policies and users' personal information.

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Google's New Cross-Service Info Sharing: Why the Hubbub?

How you feel about Google's newest information-sharing policy all boils down to how comfortable you are with Google following your every move online.

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What JavaScript's Inventor Really Thinks About Google Dart

Google's Dart language, which attempts to address JavaScript's supposed weaknesses, is getting a mixed reaction from the inventor of JavaScript itself, Brendan Eich.

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Google Stirs Up Privacy Hornet's Nest

With no opt-out option, Google plans to combine users' data across services

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Google's a Great Place to Work and Where You Work Sucks

Google is where every technology professional wants to work. The great benefits come from a business model driven by ad revenue that just keeps coming regardless of how and where the company spends money. However, the bad news is two-fold, writes Rob Enderle: Your employer will never be in this position and Google won't be in it forever.

 
Learn how your answer to this question compares to your peers by taking this quick poll. See how your peers are dealing with the challenge of ensuring a highly capable server infrastructure as technological shifts impact the application server platform.
With increasing data growth, comes increased need for data security.  The existing DLP model, with a focus on compliance/enforcement is not sufficient as the data discovery and classification capabilities are not granular enough.  Read this paper to find how you can efficiently and accurately manage your risk by rapidly inventorying and classifying your data and then developing remediation workflows that support business needs. 
This paper breaks down attack sources into four categories: external, malicious insiders, accidental insiders, and unknown.
The rapid growth of data and technology is creating challenges for organizations as this digital data is considered to be business communications and must be preserved according the same industry-specific regulations governing the retention and discovery of emails and more traditional forms of electronic communications. This paper examines the role that Data Loss Prevention ("DLP") technology can play in helping organizations address the challenges of locating information in response to electronic discovery.
This research, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, focuses on issues relating to the use of data protection solutions such as endpoint encryption and data loss prevention within the workplace.
This report, by Jon Oltsik from Enterprise Strategy Group, examines the need for a new business-centric approach to DLP in order to align business and security requirements.
Too much information can be just as limiting as too little information if users can't get what they want when they want it. Find out how the IT leaders at one of Canada's leading law firms, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, implemented Recommind's next-generation content delivery and search platform within their SharePoint portal to enable timely and effortless access to the information users need.
As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.
Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business
VMware recently announced VMware vFabric™ Data Director, a new database deployment and operations platform that enables enterprise IT organizations to offer database as a private cloud service. Built on top of VMware vSphere 5, vFabric Data Director enables IT organizations to ontrol database sprawl through automation and consistent policy enforcement and accelerate application development cycles with self-service database management. Attend this webcast to learn how vFabric Data Director can help you build database-as-a-service in your datacenter.
A simple, cost-effective disaster-recovery solution for virtual environments is high on the agenda for IT organizations as they virtualize more business-critical applications with VMware. VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager-the market-leading disaster-recovery product-ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides centralized management of recovery plans, enables nondisruptive testing and automates site-failover processes.
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