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Google China Still Suffering Problems

June 30th, 2010

According to the Google Blog, China is playing hardball. When Google said they would no longer censor results, China threatened to shut Google out of China completely. So Goiog did a workaround by redirecting people from Google.cn to Google .hk, sending visitors to the Hong Kong engine for results. Now China says they won’t accept [...]

 
 
 

Google Deemed ‘Blasphemous’ by Pakistan Government?

June 27th, 2010

According to the Associated Press, Pakistan leaders are cracking down on ‘blasphemous content’: Pakistan will monitor seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, to block anti-Islamic links and content, an official said Friday. Seventeen lesser-known sites are being blocked outright for alleged blasphemous material. The moves follow Pakistan’s temporary ban imposed on Facebook in May [...]

 
 
 

And The Winner Is? Google

June 25th, 2010

Google’s long and vicious battle with Viacom is at last drawing to an end, as a ruling in favor of a summary judgment threw the match to the search engine. According to Search Engine Land, Viacom had sued YouTube/Google for copyright infringement surrounding the posting of scores of clips of Viacom-owned programming (e.g., Jon Stewart) [...]

 
 
 

Real Time News Reporting in the Financial Sector Under Fire

June 23rd, 2010

A popular subscription based website, TheFlyOnTheWall.com, is under fire for reporting news too quickly – and Google and Twitter are leaping to its defense. “With information directly sourced from Wall Street traders, brokers, and institutional investors, theflyonthewall.com effectively delivers relevant, equity news in a concise and timely manner.” The service allows anonymous tipsters to leave [...]

 
 
 

More Street View Scandal – Google Tries to Defend the App

June 22nd, 2010

In May, Google admitted they had made a mistake: In 2006 an engineer working on an experimental WiFi project wrote a piece of code that sampled all categories of publicly broadcast WiFi data. A year later, when our mobile team started a project to collect basic WiFi network data like SSID information and MAC addresses [...]

 
 
 
 
 

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