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		<title>Google Getting Really, Really Good at Tax Avoidance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My dad was a tax / estate attorney and he said there&#8217;s different kinds of folks who don&#8217;t like to pay taxes. Those who evade (work outside the law) and those who avoid (use the tax law to their benefits). Turns out the folks at Google are getting great advice from their accountants. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Testing Robot Cars? Taking the Fun Out Of Driving?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reported that Google was out testing robot cars. I guess this is an outgrowth of their participation in the Darpa Challenge, a US government funded competition to encourage the development of &#8220;an autonomous vehicle capable of driving in traffic, performing complex maneuvers such as merging, passing, parking and negotiating intersections&#8221;. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Shows Us The Mean Streets Of Antarctica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that Google Streets is a pretty neat feature. When I moved to NC, I spent a lot of time online shopping for homesand got a great feel for various neighborhoods by moving along Google&#8217;s virtual world. Don&#8217;t say Google doesn&#8217;t do anything complete! First they put up their own satellite to improve ground [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoogleobserver.com/mostrecentposts/google-shows-us-the-mean-streets-of-antarctica/</link>
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		<title>Google TV Apps Compared to Apple TV, Roku &amp; Boxee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Google announced GoogleTV, the company&#8217;s inroads into assisted TV viewing. Thing is, folks like me have been using Media Center type devices for ages. First there were Media Center PC&#8217;s enabled with TV Tuner cards and Windows XP/Vista/7 Media Center Editions. Then, over the past couple years, we&#8217;ve seen dedicated streaming devices that can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoogleobserver.com/mostrecentposts/google-tv-apps-compared-to-apple-tv-roku-boxee/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Looking To Compete with Google&#8217;s Android Phones?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stories keep coming about Google&#8217;s efforts to dominate the smartphone market with their Android Operating system. Well itturns out another internet media powerhouse is trying to make a play for stardom and riches in the world-wide mobile market. TechCrunch (no relation to Observer Publishing LLC) reported this week that Facebook may be trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Provides More Details on TV Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google took time out of its busy schedule of world domination to share more details on its new TV service. The service combines DVR, integrated google search, web browsing and on-demand video all within your TV set. Key partners include:Sony, Logitech, Intel, and DISH Network. (click on links to see their interpretations of what the partnership will bring). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoogleobserver.com/mostrecentposts/google-provides-more-details-on-tv-service/</link>
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		<title>Industry Analysts Predict Tablets To Eat Into PC Industry Volumes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two significant reports came out today from PC industry watchers which suggest that the exploding tabletform-factor, popularized by the Apple iPad and pending Google Android powered devices, will eat into traditional computer volumes. Maynard Um with UBS Investment Research issued a note to investors this week, in which he increased his price target for AAPL [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoogleobserver.com/mostrecentposts/industry-analysts-predict-tablets-to-eat-into-pc-industry-volumes/</link>
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		<title>Google and a Popcorn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not to be outdone by Mark Zuckerberg and the team at Facebook, Sergei and Larry are getting a movie made about them as well. Turns out that Groundswell Productions has teamed with producer John Morris to acquire movie rights to the Ken Auletta book Googled: The End of the World As We Know it andthey will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoogleobserver.com/mostrecentposts/google-and-a-popcorn-2/</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the Android Tablets?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For retailers, Christmas Holiday 2009 was the year of the Netbook. Thanks to the iPad, industry insiders are predicting that Holiday 2010 will be the year of the Tablet.

Of course, the iPad will be a big seller, but others like me are not in the Apple camp and looking for the opportunity to purchase a tablet powered by Android or another operating system.]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoogleobserver.com/mostrecentposts/wheres-the-android-tablets/</link>
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		<title>Google / Verizon&#8217;s Net Neutrality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired has a great write-up on the whole Google / Verizon deal on Net Neutrality. In case anyone is wondering whether Google and Verizon hate their Internet freedom, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg insisted they don’t, calling their vision “a path to an open Internet.” The net’s top tech journalists and bloggers [...]]]></description>
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