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Google, Yahoo Object to Proposed Internet Censorship in Australia
Censorship by China grabbed the headlines for weeks. But what of restrictions on Internet freedom elsewhere in the world? Case in point: The latest country in the news for attempting to block objectionable content is Australia.The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Google, Yahoo and others have criticized government plans to force Internet service providers ...
Google's Action Angers China, Divides Web Users
Google Inc.'s partial withdrawal from China brought condemnation and signs of pressure from the government Tuesday. Meanwhile leaving Chinese Web surfers to wonder whether the company's new offshore search engine site would be blocked by censors. Google's decision to move most of its China-based search functions from the mainland to Hong Kong opened a new phase ...
Cracks in Great Chinese Firewall, Even Without Google
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are out, but in China's vast and bewildering online universe you can freely read the New York Times or visit a favorite porn site. People outside China who have read about Internet censorship -- thrown into the spotlight by Google's decision on Monday to close its mainland Chinese-language portal -- often imagine ...
A Judge May Google to Confirm Intuition: Court
Jury members are still barred from trying to research a case in progress. But lazy or clueless judges in New York get the benefit of the doubt and are legally allowed to whip out their phones to hit a search engine for a common sense question, according to a recent ruling. Why would they need to ...
First Looks: Magazines on the iPad
Last week, a video of online magazine VIVmag's iPad app made the rounds on the web. Featured in The New York Times as a taste of digital reading's future, this extraordinary, interactive video-infused 'zine was beautiful to watch, but left many others questioning if the expense of creating tablet-ready content like this was actually feasible. For ...
Inventor of the Web Gets Backing to Build Web of Data
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and prominent researcher Nigel Shadbolt will lead a new British Institute for Web Science with $45 million in government backing. The announcement was not without its critics, but the Institute could have a world-wide impact. The two men collaborated in helping build the excellent data.gov.uk and will ...
Chinese Get Google Search Results, but Can't Click Through
With Google redirecting users to its Hong Kong search engine, powerful new results now show up for sensitive subjects such as the June 4 Tiananmen crackdown, Taiwanese independence and the Dalai Lama. But opening those links is another matter. Connections to the banned search results are denied, much as they are for any foreign website under ...
Google to Move from China to Hong Kong
Web giant ends censorship of Chinese search engine. Google Inc. will shift its search engine for China off the mainland but won't shut it down altogether, and it will maintain other operations in the country. It's an attempt to balance its stance against censorship with its desire to profit from an explosively growing Internet market. On ...
SXSW is a Bands' Social Network Like No Other
AUSTIN, Texas -- Don't expect the bands and labels gathered at the South by Southwest Music Festival to forsake MySpace, Twitter and Facebook anytime soon. Most musicians and industry players find that none of these virtual connections replace the need to shake hands, look one another in the eye or bond over a couple of Lone ...
The iPad May Change Computing, Just Not Your Life
The first time you walk into an Apple Store and pick up an iPad, you'll understand the hype: Apple has managed to create a beautiful, thoughtfully designed, compelling product in a space where mediocrity was, until now, status quo. But odds are you probably won't buy one at least not yet. And that's OK. For despite ...
