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1. Nokia shrugs off Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry threats

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Oli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia, shrugged off competition from Apple's iPhone  and RIM's BlackBerry today, maintaining that his firm still held 40 percent of the smartphone market. Oli-Pekka ...

2. Dell’s mobile nightmare: The dumbest move yet?

   (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

   ... Precisely what that mobile product is remains to be seen, but reports of a Google Android-based smartphone seem to be the most plausible. If history means anything here – and I believe it does – things ...

3. Dell phone 'launching in China'

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   A blogger claims Dell is set to announce its first mobile phone in the next few days, initially aimed at the massive Chinese market. Beijing, China - A blogger claims Dell is set to announce its first ...

4. US pressures China, as China blocks Google

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... performance by shutting down web browsers and applications without warning, in addition to other, more serious problems. Meanwhile, the Chinese government has taken its row with Google one step further ...

5. Beijing blocks Google search results over pornography row

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Beijing has blocked an unspecified number of Chinese-language Google search results. According to Xinhua, the results were censored due to allegations of pornographic and "lewd" content. San Francisco ...

6. Chinese government cracks down on Google

   (Software/Software Features)

   Google may not be evil in its founders' eyes, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.Google may not be evil in its founders' eyes, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the not-so-beautiful ...

7. DoJ investigates IT hiring practices

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... of Justice (DoJ) is investigating some of the country's largest technology companies over suspicions that their hiring practices violate antitrust laws. Google, Yahoo and Apple are all to come under ...

8. HTC goes Android in China

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Taiwanese phone firm HTC is to launch a Google Android phone in mainland China, in a partnership with giant firm China Mobile.Taiwanese phone firm HTC is to launch a Google Android phone in mainland China, ...

9. Internet update: 225 million websites, more malware and spam

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... QQ, which added about 8.9 million sites, while the number of Google hosted blogs dropped by more than 2.6 million over the month. QQ now hosts almost 29 million Qzone blogs, which is more than five times ...

10. China tightens grip, orders more Internet control

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the blockage, and Google discovered it on their own when they observed a sharp drop in content viewing following the blockage. The country has issued the new rules to keep dissenting or alternate political ...

11. China blocks YouTube without an explanation

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    YouTube has once again been blocked by the Chinese government. Google has been given no reason for the blockage, but discovered it themselves after noticing a decline in Chinese traffic around noon on ...

12. China pushes Internet past 200 million websites

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... blogging service Qzone added more than 20 million websites alone and has become the largest blog site provider worldwide, easily surpassing Google’s Blogger and Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces. ...

13. Chinese government sends web portals a message: block the porn

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Beijing (China) - Yesterday, China's Ministry of Public Security and six other governmental agencies warned 19 Internet web portals (including Google) that they need to do more to block porn. In China, ...

14. Nearly 50 Open Handset Alliance members now backing Android

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... building on top of the list of existing members that includes, among others, NTT DoCoMo, China Mobile, Google, LG Electronics, T-Mobile, Sprint, Samsung, Broadcom, Intel, Nvidia and Texas Instruments. ...

15. Google Earth used in Mumbai terrorist attacks

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      The terrorists who attacked several locations in south Mumbai apparently used Google Earth to memorize digital satellite images of the city in order to find their targets and coordinate their ...

16. PC 3.0: Visions from the Phoenix Technology Annual Conference

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Analyst Opinion - I am at an annual conference Phoenix Technology  puts on to discuss the future of the PC called Strategy 2009. This conference is relatively unique in the segment, because ...

17. Researchers recreate spam campaign to estimate spam revenue

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... version here, courtesy of Google. Note: The translation is very rough). In January of 2008, Ralsky and ten others – including his son-in-law – were indicted (nine were arrested) on accusations of manipulating ...

18. 5 million iPhone 3Gs and 3 million Macs this quarter, analysts estimate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and Gartner rank Apple as the third-largest computer vendor in the U.S., following HP and Dell. On Wall Street, Apple’s market cap is close to Google's market cap.   Student Monitor polled 1200 ...

19. China touts more Internet surfers than USA

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... users with 71% of the population using the net. Read more … Associated Press via Google  ...

20. Android delayed to Q4: iPhone 3G set for slam dunk?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

      Developing Android, creating an ecosystem around the mobile platform and cloning the iPhone's integrated experience may have turned out to be much more difficult than previously thought. Google ...

21. US lawmakers accuse China of hacking Congressional computers

    (Security/Security Brief)

    ... Gutierrez’s laptop.  You can read about that incident here. Read more … Associated Press via Google.  ...

22. China microchips all Olympic tickets

    (Security/Security Brief)

    ... impossible in the land known for knocking off almost every brand name in existence. Read more … Canadian Press via Google.  ...

23. China wags finger at “illegal” online maps

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      The Chinese government is chastising several online providers, including Google maps, for providing “illegal” satellite imagery of the country and neighboring islands.  Min Yiren, the deputy ...

24. Google remains most powerful brand in the world

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    For the third year in a row, Google has been named the "most powerful brand in the world" by market research firm Millward Brown Optimor.  According to the firm, the brand value of Google is $86.1 ...

25. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... display, you can install anything from Firefox, Skype (Intel says there will be a special version of Skype for MIDs), Google Earth, office applications and well, if you really want to, games and Photoshop. ...

26. Google: Anti-virus software needs to shape up

    (Security/Security Features)

    Google is painting a scary scenario about potentially dangerous websites on the Internet: More than 1.3% of all search queries are now directing users to at least one malware site – and only seven out ...

27. Rob Enderle: 2008's Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft and Linux

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... too. :)  Thank you. ---------- Analysis:  2008's Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft and Linux by Rob Enderle Introduction Looking ahead to 2008 we are in for one amazing ...

28. Yahoo China loses copyright suit for online music search

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Beijing (China) - A Beijing court today upheld a lower court's ruling from April, 2007, that Yahoo China's music search service violates Chinese copyright law.  The case was originally ...

29. Google sued over Chinese name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    A Chinese technology company has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the name the search giant uses in China infringes on its copyrights. Beijing (China) - A Chinese technology company has filed ...

30. Blue Clouds: IBM to sell personal Internets

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and Shanghai (China) - Yesterday, IBM announced a host of upcoming products in their "Blue Cloud" lineup.  These machines will be built around the Google/IBM sofware and technology ...

31. Google market cap approaches $200 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Google is extending its gains following yesterday’s news that the company’s stock has topped $600 for the first time. Google was up $6.50 or 1.1% to more than $616 in morning trading and was ...

32. China develops new search engine technology with information about you

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    The Chinese government has a long standing policy of censoring its Internet population. Decisions to remove content from search engines by companies like Google, for example, have been front page news. ...

33. Yahoo shareholders protest CEO's $107 million pay

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... portal's chief executive, as he tries to close the gap with rival Google and fend off suggestions that he should resign. Read the complete story here.   ...

34. YouTube video shows how to steal identity

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    An activist group has created an official YouTube profile to show the concerns of identity theft, by posting a video that shows a handful of banks where personal information can be easily obtained. New ...

35. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo slammed over China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Google, Microsoft and Yahoo betrayed their values and colluded with government censorship in China in pursuit of lucrative revenue opportunities, according to human rights charity Amnesty International. ...

36. Yahoo 'worst offender' for Chinese censorship

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... in China, according to press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders. The group alleged that Yahoo China censored more results than Google China, MSN China and local search engine Baidu. Read the ...

37. Google Earth to get Discovery video

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

      Discovery Communications is teaming up with Google to offer video clips of historic sites and other spots around the world through Google Earth software, one of several new ways the Silver Spring ...

38. Google to open R&D center in Taiwan

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Google today announced that it will open a research and development center in Taiwan and has hired Dr Lee-Feng Chien, former deputy director of the Academia Sinica Institute of Information Science ...

39. First Lenovo-branded desktops and notebooks hit the market

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... such as password recovery, which can take up a substantial amount of time in many organisations. The systems will also come with third party software including, Google Toolbar, Desktop and Picassa. Lenovo's ...

40. Google.cn granted license for operation in China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      The world's leading search engine Google on Wednesday announced that its new China-based website google.cn has been licensed for operation. The world's leading search engine Google on Wednesday ...

41. Lawmakers blast tech giants over China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... Yahoo, Cisco Systems and Google defended themselves at a House International Relations subcommittee hearing, but a Google official acknowledged that figuring out China's Internet market "has been a difficult ...

42. Research casts doubt on Google's claims to Congress

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Google Inc. defended its decision to the U.S. House of Representatives last week to offer a censored version of its Internet search engine in China, saying access to its main search engine from ...

43. Google.cn access blocked by Chinese government

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

      From Forbes.com The business news service of Agence-France Presse (AFX) is reporting through Forbes.com this afternoon that Google's new Chinese Web portal, google.cn, was not accessible to ISP ...

44. Avoiding a Congressional grilling, US Internet leaders face collective outrage

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The four US companies that declined to appear before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus yesterday - Cisco Systems, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft - got grilled anyway, and failed to avoid the public ...

45. Lawmakers slam U.S. firms aiding China cyber-cops

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... could lead to rules on American technology companies operating in repressive states. The Congressional Human Rights Caucus heard experts tell how technology titans Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems ...

46. Software to outsmart Internet censorship in China

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      With all the publicity Google's China business received over the past week, it only has been a matter of time until software promises to circumvent censored search results. With all the publicity ...

47. Caucus chair: US Internet leaders capitulate to Chinese repression

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and Cisco Systems have either declined invitations, or have not responded, to appear in a meeting of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. The subject is the way the companies ...

48. Google declines to talk to Congress about censoring search results in China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Google apparently has decided to not provide members of the US Congress with any further information about its business engagement in China. According to a report of the San Francisco Chronicle, the company ...

49. Microsoft Research projects to fall under "Live" umbrella

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... around contextual engines. At just about the time it was perceived as the principal competitor to Google in terms of producing practical results with its research, Overture was absorbed by Yahoo! in 2003. ...

50. Brin defends Google's China portal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Fortune magazine's David Kirkpatrick got a chance to sit down with Google co-founder Sergey Brin to discuss the firm's move to censor its site in China. Fortune magazine's David Kirkpatrick got ...