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

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 …

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 of …

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is aiming to incorporate the social networking  feature “Buzz” feature into the version of Gmail that it 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 by the …

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 by Google and will use AT&T’s cellular network to provide service. This phone will signal Dell’s first foray into the booming …

Google defended its book digitization program to Congress yesterday. David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer at Google, expressed Google’s plans as an open platform that will work to help independent bookstores and will work with publishers and device manufacturers.

Google, which acquired the rights to create an online library in 2008 as the outcome of a lawsuit against them for copyright infringement at the cost of $125 Million, is being taken on by the Open Book Alliance. Google aims to use the rights to create an online Book Rights …

Eric Davis, head of anti-malvertising is representing Google on the National Cyber Security Alliance’s (NCSA) board of directors. Davis, who has spent 15 years in the marketing and consumer education industries, is a leader at Google in creating policies and procedures to protect the company’s network, products and customers…

Andre Hentz, former acting deputy undersecretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, has joined data management and predictive analytics firm NuWave Solutions as chief operating officer.