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Times of London:
Gates defends China's internet restrictions  —  Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, took the rare step of standing up for arch-rival Google today as he argued that state censorship was no reason for technology companies not to do business in China.
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Andrew McLaughlin / Official Google Blog:
Google in China  —  Google users in China today struggle with a service that, to be blunt, isn't very good.  Google.com appears to be down around 10% of the time.  Even when users can reach it, the website is slow, and sometimes produces results that when clicked on, stall out the user's browser.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Google fixes China search bugs  —  A day after Google's buggy censorship of sites for Chinese-users was revealed, the search giant has responded by fixing its filters so topics such as beer and jokes are no longer deleted.  —  An investigation published Thursday by CNET News.com showed …
Discussion: B.L. Ochman's weblog
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
How Google Censors Itself For China & Paid Exclusion As Being Evil  —  Declan McCullagh posts an update to his great earlier story looking at how Google is censoring results at China.  I talked with him a bit about this today and actually found myself even more upset over what Google's doing.
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
BBC:
Why Google in China makes sense  —  The latest stage of Google's move into China has proved controversial, but Bill Thompson believes it has made the right decision.  —  So Google has fallen off its pedestal at last.  —  It took a while, but the company's decision to launch …
Discussion: Social Patterns
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Brin Speaks On China & Looking At What's Filtered
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:   No booze or jokes for Googlers in China
Joseph Weisenthal / The Stalwart:
Yahoo, Google, and Noise  —  The latest rumor gracing the gossip-rags is that Yahoo! has been in talks buy Digg, a user-generated news-site of sorts.  If true (it's being denied at the moment) it would come on heals of the company buying out del.icio.us, and of course community photo page Flickr.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
More on edge cases  —  Liz Lawley was the one who said I was an edge case and has more on her blog about why she said that.  (I didn't realize until now that it was her, I just heard the voice in the back of the room and didn't know who said it).  —  She says: "Someone who reads 840 blogs is an edge case."
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mamamusings:
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
My Dinner With Microsoft Exec Jim Allchin  —  Microsoft co-president of Platforms, Products and Services Division, Jim Allchin  —  Last Night Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's Platforms, Products and Services Division met with a small group of bloggers and technologists here in San Francisco for dinner.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Senators figure out the Broadcast Flag, curse it as an abomination!  —  The Senate Commerce Committee's hearings on the "Broadcast Flag" and "Audio Flag" proposals have been derailed because senators on the committee now use technologies that would be threatened by the flags.
Discussion: open and robhyndman.com
Pdberger / Englishman in New York:
Blogarithms: Rocketboom  —  My Blogarithms story for Metro this week is about the New York videoblog Rocketboom.  And it comes with a little EiNY exclusive.  —  Over the past few months there's been some speculation about the value of an advertising slot at the end of a Rocketboom segment.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Kosmix raises cash for a new search engine — to compete with Google  —  If there's anyone itching to take on Google, it is the two Indian guys who went to Stanford with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.  —  Meet Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, two of the co-founders at Junglee …
Joseph T. Hallinan / Wall Street Journal:
Auto Ads Veer Off Newspaper Pages, Head to Web  —  Continued Slide in Revenue  —  From Classified Advertising  —  Adds to Publishers' Woes  —  Auto ads, a major source of newspaper-classified advertising, have been slipping steadily for nearly two years.  But the slippage may be turning into a landslide.
Mary Jo Foley / microsoft-watch.com:
Microsoft to Skip Vista Beta 2  —  Redmond is planning to rely more on Community Technology Previews for Windows input, and has two new Vista test builds planned for the next two calendar quarters.  —  Customers and partners who've been holding their breath waiting for Beta 2 of Windows Vista …
rexblog.com:
Rethinking corporate communications in the Me2 Revolution: This is a link to an essay called "Me2 Revolution" written by Richard Edelman.  I am requiring all of my employees to read it.  I am encouraging all of my clients to read it.  You should read it also.
Declan McCullagh / ZDNet:
Court date set for Google lawsuit … Google's attempt to fend off the government's request for millions of search terms will move to a federal court in San Jose, Calif., on Feb. 27.  —  U.S. District Judge James Ware on Thursday set the date for the highly anticipated hearing …
Therese Poletti / Mercury News:
Rest in Peace, Sony Aibo  —  SONY PULLS PLUG ON ROBOTIC DOG  —  The Aibo lived seven years — or 49 if you count robotic dog years.  —  On Thursday, Sony pulled the plug on its Aibo robot, the peppy robotic dog with a software-controlled personality — and abilities — that has entertained thousands of faithful owners.
BBC:
Microsoft may still face EU fine  —  Microsoft's offer to allow rivals access to its software blueprint may not be enough to prevent European Union action, the EU has warned.  —  The EU has threatened to fine the group 2m euros (£1.4m; $2.4m) a day if it fails to supply adequate information about its server programs.
Discussion: TechSpot
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
HOWTO build sustainable wireless networks in the developing world  —  A new free book delivers a complete HOWTO for assembling and maintaining wireless networks in rural towns in developing countries.  "Wireless Networking in the Developing World" was co-written by some of the world's leading …
Nick / Rough Type:
The supply-side boom  —  In The New Boom, a short article in the new edition of Wired, Chris Anderson makes a cogent case for why the current resurgence in internet entrepreneurship is "a healthy boom, not a fragile bubble."  His case boils down to three points.
yomiuri.co.jp:
Cell phone-accessible ATMs coming in autumn  —  Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. will introduce a service in autumn in which clients can deposit or withdraw money at automated teller machines using cell phones, the first service of its kind to be introduced by a major bank.
Discussion: Engadget and Payments News

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