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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google agrees to censor results in China — SAN FRANCISCO — Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country's free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet's fastest growing market.
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Google launches censored version of its search-engine — Reporters Without Borders today accused the Internet's biggest search-engine, Google, of "hypocrisy" for its plan to launch a censured version of its product in China, meaning that the country's Internet users would only be able to look …
David Barboza / New York Times:
Version of Google in China Won't Offer E-Mail or Blogs — SHANGHAI, Jan. 24 - Google is bringing a special version of its powerful search engine to China, leaving behind two of its most popular features in the United States. — In an effort to cope with China's increasingly pervasive Internet controls …
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Google Censors Its Results in China — Google now works together with the Chinese government in censoring the web for Chinese users. According to Reuters, Google removes some of the search results available from Google.cn, Google's new foray into the Chinese market.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Now Censoring In China — Oh, the irony. Less than a week after we hear that Google is ready to fight the US government in part to defend its users, now comes news that Google will cave into the Chinese government's demands for its new Google China web site. However, the issues aren't directly comparable.
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:It's like watching little Anakin grow into Darth Vader
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:Google to censor China Web searches
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Netflix Continues Online DVD Dominance — Davis Freeberg is both a current shareholder and customer of Netflix. This post should not be construed as financial advice. — Netflix reported strong Q4 2005 earnings today and continued to show impressive subscriber growth for their DVD by mail business.
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Conf Call Transcripts / The Internet Stock Blog:
Netflix Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (NFLX) — January 24th 2006, 5:00PM. — Executives: — Deborah Crawford, Director, Investor Relations — Reed Hastings, President and Chief Executive Officer — Barry McCarthy, Chief Financial Officer — Analysts:
Yahoo! Search blog:
Are you kidding?! — There's been a lot of conjecture and confusion today about Yahoo!'s commitment to being the world's best search engine-talk which anyone who's been following the evolution of Yahoo! Search would have realized is... just plain wrong. — While some people immediately realized this …
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David Shenk / New York Times:
A Growing Web of Watchers Builds a Surveillance Society — IT is strangely fitting that President Bush's no-warrant wiretapping came to light during the season of holiday gift buying, much of which took place online. — As Washington huffed and puffed over a new erosion of privacy …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
As Gadgets Get It Together, Media Makers Fall Behind — AMID the cacophony of the sprawling Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, the main action had little to do with electronics. Sure, booth after booth claimed to have the biggest TV screen, the smallest music player and the niftiest wireless gizmo.
Associated Press:
Hacker guilty of taking over PCs for attacks — A 20-year-old Southern California hacker admitted Monday to surreptitiously seizing control of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers, using the zombie network to serve pop-up ads and renting it to people who mounted attacks on Web sites and sent out spam.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Red Hat to make Linux run on Intel macs — Red Hat representative Gillian Farquhar announced last week that the company plans to add support for Apple's new Intel Macs to its popular distribution. Fedora and several other commonly used Linux distributions support the PowerPC architecture used …
Peter Poffenberger / BizNicheMedia:
BizNicheMedia Link Baiting Competition: $1,000 Prize — Link baiting. It's the new link building. It's the single most important thing a blogger can do to get that large jolt of traffic (and links) to a new blog. — Scrivs is good at it. Darren is great at it. And we at BizNicheMedia SUCK at it.
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Goes Beyond EU Decision by Offering Windows Source Code — Announcement underscores Microsoft's commitment to resolve compliance issues by giving licensees access to its source code. — BRUSSELS, Belgium — Jan. 25, 2006 - Today, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith announced Microsoft's decision …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Hard Drive Disk Dying Dance Contest - Day 2 — A quick recap: Hitachi put up some .wav files with the sounds of hard drives gone bad. Gizmodo is offering a sweet Tokyoflash Equalizer watch to the person who uses those sounds to create a song that makes the whole world sing. — The first batch of entries is in.
Anne 2.0:
Good for You, Yahoo — Steve Rubel on Yahoo's search capitulation: if you don't want to be King of the Mountain like me, I'm not bothering with you. I don't get that. If Yahoo search offers something that Steve needs right now, why not use it? Why does it matter if they scale back their goals for the service?
Annalee Newitz / Wired News:
Machinima for the Masses — In late November, news started spreading across the net about a new machinima — a movie created using a video-game engine — whose content went way beyond the usual World of Warcraft dirty dancing and Halo jokes. — Called The French Democracy …
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