This fall we've seen lots of government agencies decide to make the switch to cloud computing, joining the many businesses already using Google Apps for email and collaboration at work. Today we'd like to officially welcome another customer to the mix: the City of Los Angeles. Starting today, Los Angeles will be equipping 34,000 city employees with Google Apps for email and collaboration in the cloud. The story of Los Angeles moving to Google Apps started early this year,

Way back when (in internet time) when ClickZ launched its merry band of internet marketing pioneers, one Jim Sterne was amongst them. And now he's back! And we're delighted to have you back on board, Jim! Over the years Jim Sterne and I have spoken at a gazillion online marketing events. And not only is Jim one of the original online marketing masters, he's one of the nicest guys in the industry to hang out with. So heads-up,

France is considering a proposal to tax online advertising revenues earned by companies such as Google. The proposal would extend to other companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo and would put an end to "enrichment without any limit or compensation," newspaper Liberation quoted Guillaume Cerutti, one of the supporters of the proposal, as saying. Under the proposal,

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote last night was one of the most anticipated events of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. It was expected that he would unveil a device to compete with a supposedly upcoming tablet from Apple, but people anticipating such news were met with the unveiling of a different device - the HP Windows 7 slate device, which apparently doesn't live up to some of the tech crowd's expectations.

Intel has unveiled a whole new family of Intel Core Processors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. These include Intel Turbo Boost technology for laptops, desktops, and embedded devices. "For the first time, there's a new family of Intel processors with the industry's most advanced technology available immediately at virtually every PC price point," said Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, Samsung introduced its first e-book reading devices. They're called the E6 and the E101, coming in six and ten-inch screen sizes. "We've used our expertise to create a high-quality e-book with todays on-the-go consumer in mind," said Young Bae, director of display marketing, Samsung Information Technology Division.

I ask many people I don't know to help me - to share numbers, interviews, etc. Often they say yes. I am grateful. Many people who don't know me ask me for help. Often I say yes. But many of those requests are presented so poorly they make me cringe. Basically, if you want my help, take a few moments to know who I am. If you send me what is clearly a mass email asking for help, forget it. There is a right and wrong way to do this. This post is about the right way. First off,

As the world's largest trade show gets underway, marketers, publishers, and game developers gathered to share their insights and predictions for the future. Today's Game Power panel was one of the first sessions in a series of workshops at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. As a marketer for Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Advertising Business Group, the team that creates advertising opportunities in Xbox LIVE, MSN Games, and Windows LIVE Messenger Games,

Ever found your eyes glazing over when you read through your own copy or blog posts? I hate to break it to you, but a lot of the products, services, or niches that we write about just aren't that thrilling. Although the finer points of search engine optimization might keep you glued to your screen, most of your clients or blog readers aren't feeling the excitement. So what can you do? You bring in a register which deals with excitement: the heroic.

People blog for different reasons. Some people have an idea for a blog and they want to turn that idea into a real moneymaker. There have been real successful bloggers who have done this, but most attempts that I have encountered have failed. They had an idea and turned their blog into a business model. Nothing at all wrong with that. How you can tell if a blog has failed is if you see it ranking well in the search engines and have not seen any new posts for months.