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1. Dell touts Mini 3 Android smartphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   ... at iPhone's market share Midnight shoppers queue for Droid Sony Ericsson Android lumbers into view Motorola and Verizon trundle out Droid smartphone Google intros Android 2.0 Eclair SDK for Droid smartphones ...

2. Chinese government attacks Yahoo over porn

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... attached blogs. China has been going great guns in closing down websites that it deems unacceptable. The last high-profile offender was Google, which has since changed the algorithm on its local search ...

3. Nokia shrugs off Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry threats

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 06 October 2009

   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 ...

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

   (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

   Tuesday, 18 August 2009

   ... 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 ...

5. Dell phone 'launching in China'

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 10 August 2009

   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 ...

6. US pressures China, as China blocks Google

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 25 June 2009

   ... 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 ...

7. Beijing blocks Google search results over pornography row

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 19 June 2009

   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 ...

8. Chinese government cracks down on Google

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 19 June 2009

   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 ...

9. DoJ investigates IT hiring practices

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 03 June 2009

   ... 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 ...

10. HTC goes Android in China

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 25 May 2009

    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, ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 02 April 2009

    ... 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 ...

12. China tightens grip, orders more Internet control

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 02 April 2009

    ... 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 ...

13. China blocks YouTube without an explanation

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    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 ...

14. China pushes Internet past 200 million websites

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    ... 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. ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Tuesday, 06 January 2009

    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, ...

16. Nearly 50 Open Handset Alliance members now backing Android

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 10 December 2008

    ... 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. ...

17. Google Earth used in Mumbai terrorist attacks

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 01 December 2008

      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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 12 November 2008

      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 ...

19. Researchers recreate spam campaign to estimate spam revenue

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 11 November 2008

    ... 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 ...

20. 5 million iPhone 3Gs and 3 million Macs this quarter, analysts estimate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 22 August 2008

    ... 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 ...

21. China touts more Internet surfers than USA

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Friday, 25 July 2008

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

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

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 23 June 2008

      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 ...

23. US lawmakers accuse China of hacking Congressional computers

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Thursday, 12 June 2008

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

24. China microchips all Olympic tickets

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Wednesday, 28 May 2008

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

25. China wags finger at “illegal” online maps

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 07 May 2008

      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 ...

26. Google remains most powerful brand in the world

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 21 April 2008

    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 ...

27. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... 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. ...

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

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    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 ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 28 December 2007

    ... 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 ...

30. Yahoo China loses copyright suit for online music search

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 21 December 2007

    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 ...

31. Google sued over Chinese name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 14 December 2007

    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 ...

32. Blue Clouds: IBM to sell personal Internets

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 16 November 2007

    ... 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 ...

33. Google market cap approaches $200 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 09 October 2007

    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 ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 09 July 2007

    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. ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 12 June 2007

    ... 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.   ...

36. YouTube video shows how to steal identity

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 30 April 2007

    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 ...

37. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo slammed over China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 20 July 2006

      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. ...

38. Yahoo 'worst offender' for Chinese censorship

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 16 June 2006

    ... 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 ...

39. Google Earth to get Discovery video

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Friday, 07 April 2006

      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 ...

40. Google to open R&D center in Taiwan

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 31 March 2006

      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 ...

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

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 23 February 2006

    ... 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 ...

42. Google.cn granted license for operation in China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 22 February 2006

      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 ...

43. Lawmakers blast tech giants over China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 15 February 2006

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 06 February 2006

      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 ...

45. Google.cn access blocked by Chinese government

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Friday, 03 February 2006

      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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 02 February 2006

    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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 01 February 2006

    ... 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 ...

48. Software to outsmart Internet censorship in China

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 01 February 2006

      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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 31 January 2006

    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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 31 January 2006

    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 ...