Google restructures top leadership roles

Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, will be stepping down from that position while continuing to serve the company as executive chairman.

  • By Kurt Mackie

Agencies schooled to be vendor-neutral in RFPs

Officials have reminded agency purchasers about value-neutral IT purchases after a federal judge ruled that the Interior Department decided to buy software from Microsoft while other capable companies were interested in the work.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Google wins: Interior forbidden to award noncompetitive contract to Microsoft

Interior Department officials began considering awarding a contract to Microsoft too early in the contracting process, judge writes.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

White House deputy CTO leaves, will target state and local collaboration

Andrew McLaughlin is resigning from his job as deputy White House chief technology officer to start two companies, one of them to develop collaboration tools for state and local governments.

  • By Kevin McCaney

Google watches another cloud deal slip away

As another federal cloud computing contract goes to Microsoft, Google claims the government is unfairly favoring its rival.

  • By Alysha Sideman

GSA's Google Apps award raises Microsoft’s hackles

Microsoft Corp. complains that GSA amended a request for proposals that resulted in Unisys Corp. winning a $6.7 million contract to create a cloud-based e-mail system using Google Apps. What ticked off the software giant?

  • By David Hubler

Google sues Interior over cloud RFQ

Google and a cloud partner have sued the government alleging that an Interior Department RFQ unfairly excludes Google.

  • By Michael Hardy

Google Apps government reach grows

Google's cloud-based software suite is making inroads with federal and local government agencies.

  • By Henry Kenyon

Feds should watch Oracle lawsuit against Google

Oracle has sued Google over the use of Java in Google's Android operating system.

  • By Michael Hardy

Google releases FISMA-compliant Apps for Government

Apps for Government is the first suite of cloud computing applications to receive Federal Information Security Management Act certification and accreditation from the U.S. government. Microsoft also working to obtain certification for Web-based e-mail.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

Google browser targets federal market

Google is subtly increasing pressure on Microsoft with a new release of its Chrome browser. Government employees may now have a new alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer platform: Google has released a new stable version of its browser for Mac and Linux, bringing it out of beta for these two platforms.

  • By Kathleen Hickey

Are Google Apps and Microsoft headed for a showdown?

Google Apps is poised to challenge Microsoft's share of the federal IT market.

  • By Henry Kenyon

CSC, Google join forces on LA cloud computing project

Los Angeles is about to get a cloud thanks to a joint venture between Computer Sciences Corp. and Google Inc., which are building a cloud e-mail system to replace the existing Novell GroupWise service for the city’s municipal agencies.

  • By David Hubler

How will Google/China spat end?

Google CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters he expects some resolution soon to his company's dispute with China, but didn't specify a date or say what form that could take.

  • By Ben Bain

New evidence in Google attack points East

A security researcher for SecureWorks says he has found evidence to support Google's claim that last month's attacks on the company’s systems originated in China, while another security expert called the attacks the largest and most sophisticated in years aimed at businesses.

  • By Kevin McCaney

CSC builds cloud for Los Angeles city workers

Computer Sciences Corp. has begun work on a five-year, $7.25 million contract to replace Los Angeles’ current e-mail and other applications with Google’s Web-based productivity tools.

  • By David Hubler
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