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Internet censorship should be trade barrier: Google
Internet censorship should be treated as a barrier to trade, according to the chief executive of search and advertising giant Google. Read more »
Yahoo settles China lawsuits
Just a week after being publicly chastised by Congress for cooperating with the Chinese government in a case that led to the jailing of two journalists, Yahoo has settled a lawsuit filed by the men and their families. Read more »
Courtroom showdown for Microsoft and Google
Attorneys for Microsoft and Google faced off before a state court judge in Seattle on Tuesday, arguing whether former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee should be allowed to start work for the search company before a trial determines whether he violated a noncompete contract. Read more »
Microsoft sues over Google hire
Opening a new chapter in its rivalry with Google, Microsoft on Tuesday sued the search giant and a former Microsoft executive that Google had tapped to run its China operations. Read more »
Google votes on whether to protect free speech
For the second year in a row, Google shareholders will be asked to hold the Web search giant accountable for protecting free speech, regardless of international borders. Read more »
Microsoft staff defend blog censorship
A senior Microsoft manager has defended the decision to remove the blog of a Chinese journalist from the company's MSN Spaces site, claiming that content which breaks national laws must be taken down. Read more »
Microsoft to give students free developer tools
Microsoft wants more students using its software tools and it thinks it has hit on the right business model -- it's going to give away its software. Read more »
Gates talks about the future before farewell
For years, Bill Gates has been trumpeting software's ascent from the lowly PC to everything from mobile phones to home entertainment. In this interview before his farewell speech, Gates talks about competitors, the future of DVD, and why all of those seamless connections between digital devices exist only in keynote speeches. Read more »
Microsoft apps for Linux on the way?
Rumours of greater collaboration between Microsoft and the open source community have been fueled by comments made the head of Open Source Development Labs. Read more »
Microsoft--forget PR, clean up the code
Have you noticed that Microsoft is on the offensive? After countless months of reading press clippings about the pathetic state of Windows security, the folks in Redmond have decided to fight back with one of their strongest weapons--public relations. Read more »
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Oracle's Jarvis: Unplugged--but not unarmed
In an interview with ZDNet, Oracle marketing chief Mark Jarvis managed to critique most of the competition. Ariba, Commerce One, I2, and Siebel? All history. IBM? A copycat. Microsoft? Vulnerable. Read more »
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How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software
-- Thanks to some major concessions on source code and a precipitous price drop, the Chinese government has now thoroughly embraced Windows and Office, what does this mean for the world? Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.