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Free market solutions to today's technology issuesTechnology impacts our daily lives in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago. From email, VoIP and cell phones, high-speed Internet access, and even social networking sites. Just think about the many ways technology has improved our lives. From the way we communicate with our friends and families to how we manage our finances and organize our lives; technology continues to give us more mobility, more choices and flexibility; increasing our efficiency and saving us money. And the future holds even greater promise. Online medical records and tele-medicine offer the promise greatly reducing our health care costs. Cooperative learning can help improve the education of our children. And even benefiting our economy with high paying technology jobs. |
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From the Blog
This week Google entered into yet another market. Now that the company dominates the search market – they continually are entering new markets: from news publishing, energy trading, GPS, mobile phones and even operating systems; it seems like Google is always entering new markets. This week Google launched a new social networking site “Google Buzz” earlier this week. The new service allows users with a Gmail account to post real-time, geo-located updates, as well as pulling in content from Flickr, Picasa, YouTube and other networks. The Washington Post pointed out how the geo-location features in buzz goes as far as listing your location by name: Googles business model requires its users to place an enormous amount of trust in the company. They offer you products and services in return for your personal information. They already are collecting an unprecedented amount of information on Google users. And Buzz takes it to the next level – including give Google exclusive ownership and use of this data in perpetuity. Google has typically taken an all-or-nothing approach to privacy. But Googles Buzz is a social network that is limited to Gmail users, and excludes some popular services like Facebook. Google may have a challenge convincing users to give up even more privacy to use this service. |
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