Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has definitively agreed to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for about $12.5 billion in cash, or $40 per share. Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business. The board of directors of both companies have unanimously approved the move. The transaction still needs approval byBudget Year Motorola Mobility’s... 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Earth Resources Technology, Inc. a $11.5 million three-year task order under the NOAALink prime contractA contract awarded directly byBudget Year the Federal Government to migrate NOAANational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.’s email and calendaring functions to the Google apps... 

GovConWire’s publisher Executive Mosaic is this week releasing its spring edition of GovConExec magazine, which takes a deep dive into cloud computing and includes highlight input from top executives for the region’s government contracting sector who are leading the migration and leveraging the power of the cloud. Although not a new phenomenon,... 

Mike Bradshaw - Google Federal GSAGeneral Services Administration has a deal in place with partners Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Unisys (NYSE: UIS) to migrate 17,000 employees and contractors to Google Apps for Government, which will provide cloud-based programs like Gmail and Google Calendar to the agency. The decision follows a competitive request for... 

Google is taking another step in an effort to bring the cloud to the federal government byBudget Year releasing a version of its hosted suite of applications in compliance with federal ITInformation Technology security certification, Datamation reports. “I think this is indicative also of our commitment to the federal marketplace,” said Mike... 

The federal government is excited about the cloud – although there are some concerns about privacy and security as the decade-long implementation moves forward. “The cloud can allow teleworkers to easily and securely access their data and work from wherever they happen to be,” Mike Bradshaw, lead of Google’s federal cloud computing... 

Google has partnered with IceWEB  to deliver information sharing solutions to the public sector. IceWEB will work closely with several Google Earth Enterprise partners to deliver a turnkey Enterprise Visualization Appliance that will be offered with pre-fused aerial and satellite imagery from the industry’s leading providers. Mike Bradshaw, Director... 

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is aiming to incorporate the social networking  feature “Buzz” feature into the version of Gmail that itInformation Technology offers to the federal government. Although the plan encountered early issues, those have been corrected and the plan is moving forward. “We got a bit of a ding byBudget Year the press,”... 

CSC announced today that itInformation Technology will begin work on a contract awarded byBudget Year the City of Los Angeles to replace the current email and additional applications used byBudget Year the city with Google Apps. The contract is for three years with two one year options. Under the contract, CSC will provide end user services and systems... 

Dell is hoping to launch a new smart phone in early 2010 according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. The new phone uses the Android system developed byBudget Year Google and will use AT&T’s cellular network to provide service. This phone will signal Dell’s first foray into the booming cell phone market. The phone has a touch screen...