Tag: GOOGLEINCHINA

Since withdrawing its services from the Chinese mainland due to concerns over the governmental censorship of online content, Google has been rerouting Chinese searches to its uncensored search page based out of Hong Kong. The Chinese government, of course, is none too pleased with Google's clever maneuver, and, in response, is threatening to reject the company's application to renew its Internet ...

Share After Google defiantly withdrew from its territory, and even after facing a barrage of international criticism due to its iron-fisted censorship policies, the People's Republic of China insists it will not ease its governmental grip on the Internet. In a 31-page government paper issued today, the Chinese government poetically described the Internet as "a crystallization of human wisdom," ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Apple sold 300,000 iPads almost immediately after the device's release, and -- after just two months -- the tablet has reached another noteworthy sales milestone. Consumers have reportedly purchased 2 million iPads, a number that has certainly been aided by the gadget's recent European release. The ability for consumers to pay for the ...

Well, we knew that wouldn't take long. Following Google's decision to end its tacit censorship of Chinese search results, the Chinese government called the search company's decision "totally wrong," and, within hours, began blocking sites and filtering out search results it found objectionable. China hasn't yet blocked Google.com.hk, the uncensored site to which Google has begun forwarding ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Gallup has been gauging the public's attitude about nuclear power since 1994, and the organization is claiming that support for the energy source is now at an all-time high. That's great news for Toshiba and TerraPower (which is partially funded by energy-vacuum Bill Gates), the two of which are reportedly discussing a plan to ...