Chinese Internet search giant Baidu Inc. is stepping into the mobile market – trying to reach agreements with smartphone makers that use Google’s Android operating system. The Beijing-based company wants to embed a Baidu search box on phones headed for the Chinese market, according to company’s Chief Executive Robin Li, who stated that Baidu’s goal [...]
A Baidu Android?
July 24th, 2010Google China Still Suffering Problems
June 30th, 2010According 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 to Strike Their Tents in China?
March 13th, 2010Will Google China be no more? In January, following the hacking of several Gmail accounts, Google said: We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an [...]
If Google Were Gone
March 1st, 2010What would happen if Google disappeared from China? In the wake of the hack originating in China and the subsequent threats by Google to leave China if uncensored results were not allowed, people started wondering what life would be like in a country without Google. A survey of 784 scientists revealed that scientific research in [...]
Is Google Secure?
January 15th, 2010After the events this week, many wonder if Google is really the best choice for exclusive data storage, email and other private information. A quick recap; earlier this week, Google announced that there had been a hacking incident involving Google email accounts having to do with China. The main thrust of Google’s blog post was [...]