Google strikes back…again. Incorporates uncensored Twitter feeds in search results. Your turn China…

Google strikes back…again.  Incorporates uncensored Twitter feeds in search results.  Your turn China…

And the battle wages on… The latest in an almost juvenile yet entertaining (and I’ll admit it, liberating) move by Google has them yet again, sticking it to the red man. We’ve already seen Google close up shop with their .cn search page, choosing to redirect it to google.hk — Hong Kong’s freer flowing version. China responded by filtering results. So Google countered again with another “catch me if you can” by implementing the now...

Being a government BlackBerry user just became a lot tougher…

Being a government BlackBerry user just became a lot tougher…

Have your own case of the “Berry Thumb” and happen to also fall under Uncle Sam’s umbrella of employment? Some bad news is headed your way — The Air Force is take large steps to increase cybersecurity starting with BlackBerry phones. Up until now, using the devices has been pretty much the same as civilian users. That’s all changing however under a new policy which will see Bluetooth disabled for all but special card readers for...

Google praised, Microsoft scolded over censorship/China issues.

Google praised, Microsoft scolded over censorship/China issues.

Since Google made their bold stance to pull out of China regarding censorship issues earlier this year, the internet world has been in a firestorm. More recently however we’ve actually seen more controversy and actions taken regarding the “bigger picture”. For instance, this past week GoDaddy announced that they too would be following in Google’s footsteps and abandoning any further .cn domain registrations. Also on the list of potential movers is...

“China resolution coming soon…” says Google’s Eric Schmidt.

“China resolution coming soon…” says Google’s Eric Schmidt.

Google took the tech world by storm back in early January by stating (out of the blue I might add) that they were going to cease censoring search results in China and that if China pushed back, the California based company was going to pull out of China all together. Yet here we sit almost two months later and not much else has developed besides a few comments hurdled back and forth between the Chinese government and Google. To most, we’ve already written off...

Shocker: Baidu replaces Google as default Android search engine in the land of the Great Firewall.

Shocker: Baidu replaces Google as default Android search engine in the land of the Great Firewall.

After watching the events surrounding Google and China displayed across the world’s various media sources unfold, word of Google not being the default Android search engine shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. While Google is for all intents and purposes “done” with China, those who already had or want any more Android lovin’ and find themselves between a firewall rock and a hard place were left wondering what would happen without the core...

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