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Google’s Political Action Committee Getting Lots of Action These Days

The 2012 election cycle is proving a big one for Google NetPAC, the company’s political action committee.

John Paczkowski in News
February 10, 2012 at 3:39 am PT

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Paula Deen’s Health Food Cookbook
SPARKLING WATER INGREDIENTS: 1 glass sparkling water 1 ham DIRECTIONS: Put ham in water.
Home Video Commentaries: Not Where You Saw
“It really conveys the sound of pride leaving the body.”
Nonsense Shopping List Prank
Got any stove babies? How about a baby-size shark cage?
Yelping With Cormac
Taco Bell: The man spoke of his trials with the taco so terrible even God could not eat it.
Siri Meets Eliza
How long have you been fine. Thanks for asking?
ThunderLOLcats
I CAN HAS OMINS?
Cookie Monster sings Tom Waits
Brought to you by the letters W,T and F …
Quora: Why is U2 so popular?
Answer summary: big market, product market fit, usability.
The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History
“There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.”
Salvador Dali on “What’s My Line”
Do you ever do drawings like comic strips? … Yes.
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Fire in the Hole! Amazon May Ship 9-Inch Kindle by Midyear.

John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 9 at 3:23 pm PT

And we call it … Kindle Conflagration.

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DOJ Likely to Clear Rockstar Bidco’s Nortel Patent Purchase

John Paczkowski in News on February 9 at 11:22 am PT

Looks like the Justice Department plans to approve the $4.5 billion sale of Nortel’s wireless technology patents to a consortium led by Microsoft and Apple. Sources familiar with the matter say the DOJ has addressed concerns that the consortium might use the patents to unfairly hamstring competitors. It’s not clear when the DOJ will issue its approval, but when it does some 6,000 wireless patents will be transferred over to Rockstar Bidco, an alliance that also includes Research In Motion, Sony, Ericsson AB and EMC.

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John Paczkowski in News on February 9 at 9:00 am PT

What did the FBI have on Steve Jobs? Heh.

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Google: That 2.25 Percent MoMo Patent Royalty Sounds About Right to Us

John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 8 at 5:20 pm PT

Motorola Mobility’s demand that Apple pay it patent royalties of 2.25 percent on sales of some iPhones and iPads raised a lot of eyebrows. But not at Google.