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“Liskula Cohen, a 36-year-old former Vogue cover girl and model for Armani and Versace, is suing Google in order to uncover the person behind a blogger site that named her the ‘#1 skanky superstar.’ ‘It’s petty, it’s stupid and it’s pathetic,’ says Cohen. ‘And when I do find out who did this, at least I’ll know who my enemies are. … I’m tall, I’m blond, I’ve been modeling for many years, and people get jealous.’” [Link]
“Google on Tuesday began handing out mobile smartphones rather than cash as a year-end present to its staff, in a move that reflects an effort by the company to pare the cost of its famously lavish employee perks. The internet search group is to give most of its 20,100 employees around the world the G1, the first handset to be powered by Google’s new mobile operating system, known as ‘Android’.” [Link]
“Google withdrew its proposed advertising partnership with Yahoo last month only three hours before the Justice Department planned to file a lawsuit to block the deal. That’s how close Google came to labeled a monopoly by federal regulators, who concluded that a partnership between the No. 1 and No. 2 search engines - which control 90 percent of U.S. search advertising - would harm competition.” [Link]
“The terrorists who attacked various locations in southern Mumbai last week used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating the attacks. Investigations by the Mumbai police, including the interrogation of one captured terrorist, suggest that the terrorists were highly trained and used technologies such as satellite phones and the Global Positioning System (GPS), according to police.” [Link]
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“Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, signaling Mr. Schmidt’s push for a greater voice in politics while giving the Obama campaign a boost from a highly desirable constituency.” [Link]
“During the first day of its release Sept. 2, Google Chrome rocketed to 1% of the market, Net Applications said. Since then, the upstart browser has fallen to 0.77% as of last week, with the losses shared evenly between IE and Firefox. ‘A bunch of people gave it a quick try, and its share has been sliding ever since,’ Vince Vizzaccaro, executive VP of marketing for Net Applications, told InformationWeek. ” [Link]
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“US telecom carrier T-Mobile is slated to unveil on September 23 a ‘Google phone’ built by Taiwanese firm HTC and to have the device for sale in stores as early as October. Google is hoping Android will become the dominant operating system for mobile phones. It is designed to improve the speed and quality of using the Internet on handsets.” [Link]
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