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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 …
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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.
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 …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Allchin: Buy Vista for the security  —  If new features won't get you to upgrade to Vista, security enhancements should, Windows chief Jim Allchin has urged.  —  Microsoft has already touted the bells and whistles it is putting into Windows Vista, the operating system successor to XP that's due out by the end of the year.
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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 …
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.
Dave Taylor / The Intuitive Life Business Blog:
Google gets pragmatic and enters China  —  Earlier in the week it was all about Yahoo! Search and Google (see my article What do Yahoo, Apple and Ferrari have in common? for more on that tempest in a teapot) and today it's all about Google again, but this time relating to one of the most basic …
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Blogspotting
Peter Caputa / pc4media:
Companies Should Empower Bloggers to Reach Their Goals  —  Steve Rubel: … I can picture a conversation with a not-so clued-in company:  —  Company: How do we know what they want?  —  Clued in PR person: You have to ask them.  —  Company: How the hell are we supposed to do that?
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.
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
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.
Isen / isen.blog:
My O'Reilly Etel Talk  —  (a talk at O'Reilly Etel by David S. Isenberg January 26, 2006)  —  When Ed Whitacre, the head of AT&T, says,  —  "They're not going to use my pipes for free"  —  he's not talking about Them, he's talking about Me.  —  He's talking about Us, it should be plain to see.
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
Jessie Seyfer / Mercury News:
Group to seek bids for huge public wireless network  —  Silicon Valley leaders have a bold vision of a public wireless network stretching from East Palo Alto to Santa Cruz.  What they don't have yet: a detailed plan or a way to pay for it.  —  Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network …

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