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Obama's deputy technology officer McLaughlin: Free speech is net-neutrality foreign policy...the political and cultural norms of other nations. McLaughlin began Google's policy office in Washington five years ago before joining the administration earlier this year. The tricky thing about the Internet is that because of the... In this article: Barack Obama, Google, Tim Wu, United States, FCC, Germany, First Amendment, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Columbia University |
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Indiana Times - The Economic Times | November 20, 2009
Google to caption Youtube videos
...for anyone to search text inside videos and find specific snippets within a video. Google announced the new features on Thursday at an event in Washington. The company said they would be available by the end of the week. Copyright © 2009...
In this article: Google, YouTube, All rights reserved, Hulu, Yale, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Geographic, and AOL
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CNET News.com | November 19, 2009
YouTube turning on automatic captions
The company is holding an event in Washington D.C. Thursday to announce that it has developed a way to use the voicemail transcription technology in Google Voice to allow videos to be uploaded to YouTube with captions automatically generated.
In this article: YouTube, Google, Google Video, AOL, CNET, Vint Cerf, Yahoo, Apple, and Time Warner
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washingtonpost.com | November 04, 2009
Google boosts spending on lobbying
...in Google's companywide expenses during the same period. Google has been beefing up staff in its Washington office and is engaged in multiple regulatory and legislative concerns. Its settlement with book authors and publishers for digital...
In this article: Google, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, Revenue, Google Answers, Fast Forward, Federal Trade Commission, Eric Schmidt, Apple, and Justice Department
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USATODAY.com | November 12, 2009
Google, Yahoo call for expanded online drug ads
...Associated Press WASHINGTON Google, Yahoo and other Web companies joined the pharmaceutical industry Thursday in urging U.S. government regulators to make it easier to pitch drugs in online advertisements. The Food and Drug...
In this article: Food and Drug Administration, Yahoo, Google, Cholesterol, All rights reserved, Pharmaceutical companies, Lipitor, and Tobacco
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The Big Money | November 11, 2009
Can We Trust Google's Wi-Fi Gift?
...this somehow. ChannelWeb reporter Rick Whiting thinks it's about Google's rep. The company, he writes, could use a little more suction in Washington, as it's pushing Net Neutrality and high-speed wireless Internet access. Its brand has...
In this article: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google Book Search, AltaVista, Gmail, and National Public Radio
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Times Online | October 31, 2009
Barack Obama love affair with Google ends
...with B-list celebrities Jessica Alba and John Cusack and raved it up to 1980s tunes. Until a few years ago Google had largely ignored Washington. Now Schmidt is one of the few chief executives still welcome in the White House. But the...
In this article: Google, Barack Obama, YouTube, Ice cream, Authors Guild, Washington, and Eric Schmidt
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Huffington Post | November 04, 2009
Google's Quarterly Lobbying Expenditures Top $1 Million For First Time
...office. In response to Congress' increased attention to net neutrality and online privacy issues, Google has hired a slew of Washington insiders, including a former senior Republican aide to the House Financial Services Committee and a...
In this article: Google, Washington DC, Department of Energy, Revenue, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Byron Dorgan, and House Financial Services Committee
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Hackers create tools for disaster relief
...Elinor Mills/CNET News) The event came about after representatives from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo attended a Crisis Camp conference for emergency and disaster relief groups in Washington, D.C. in May. The technologists decided that...
In this article: NASA, Google, Microsoft, World Bank, Sustainable development, CNET News, and Yahoo
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Drug industry presses FDA to allow more online ads
WASHINGTON As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other websites. The...
In this article: Food and Drug Administration, Drug industry, Google, YouTube, Twitter, All rights reserved, and Pew Research Center
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Washington, D.C. (pronounced: /ˈwɒʃɪŋtən ˌdiːˈsiː/), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the Territory of Columbia until an act of Congress in 1871 effectively merged the City and the Territory into a single entity called the District of Columbia. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city is located on the north bank of the Potomac River and is bordered by the states of Virginia to the southwest and Maryland to the other sides. The District has a resident population of 591,833; however, because of commuters from the surrounding suburbs, its population rises to over one million during the workweek. The Washington Metropolitan Area, of which the District is a part, has a population of 5.3 million, the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the country.
The United States Congress has supreme authority over Washington, D.C.; residents of the city therefore have less self-governance than residents of the states. The District has a non-voting at-large Congressional delegate, but no senators. D.C. residents could not vote in presidential elections until the ratification of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961.
- Name:
- District of Columbia
- Motto:
- Justitia Omnibus(Justice for All)
- Founding Date:
- July 16, 1790
- Total Area (sq. mi):
- 68.3
- Total Area (km):
- 177.0
- Land Area (sq mi):
- 61.4
- Land Area (km):
- 159.0
- Water Area (sq mi):
- 6.9
- Water Area (km):
- 18.0
- Elevation (ft):
- 0–409
- Elevation (m):
- 0–125
- Time Zone:
- EST
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