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...California Tech Titans Untangled In a sign of the deepening rivalry between two of Silicon Valley's giants, Google CEO Eric Schmidt stepped down from Apple's board of directors after a three-year stint. With the companies increasingly squaring off over lucrative markets like the mobile-computing field, many analysts suggested the move was overdue. The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Schmidt's position on his competitor's board may have violated antitrust provisions...
...project, which has since been torn down, and was elected to the Newark city council at age 29. In 2006, at 37, he became mayor. To his supporters, who include A+ listers like Oprah Winfrey, Bon Jovi and Brad Pitt, plus an élite cadre of Wall Street and Silicon Valley scions, Booker's self-sacrificial tale is heroic. To his critics, Booker is still a publicity-loving political opportunist, a permanent outsider using the citizens of Newark to jump-start bigger things for his career...
...technology. China is emerging as a leader in electric cars, solar power and wind power. South Korea is not yet known for anything environmentally friendly, but that is about to change. The South Korean government is spending $31 billion to fund research in 27 green technologies, including non-silicon-based solar cells, biomass fuels and carbon collection, storage and processing. (See the top 10 green stories...
...Speculation that the Google attack was a method of distracting attention from the Green Dam fiasco intensified after a report emerged that Silicon Valley-based Solid Oak Software had sent cease and desist orders warning computer users not to use the Green Dam software, which it said copied parts of one of its programs...
...Beckstrom, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, points out that Obama's nominee will need political skills to deal with the many voices that will want to be heard on cybersecurity, including many government departments - the Pentagon, various intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security, among others - and private-sector bodies. "There's a lot of rice in this particular rice bowl," Beckstrom says. He knows from personal experience how difficult that can be: earlier this year, he quit as Director of the National Cybersecurity Center in March, citing interdepartmental politics...