Google and the Chinese government are continuing to trade shots in the PR battle over net censorship. Earlier in the week, Google moved its Chinese search facility to Hong Kong where it claims it is legal under Chinese law to provide searches without censoring results. In China: The Chinese government slashed Google in an op-ed…
There is a risk to computer security from governments. Regulatory changes, even if they are very positive measures, can impose huge demands on an enterprise (i.e. HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley, California’s law requiring notification of customers whose personal information is hacked on company sites.) The “government” risk can get no bigger than the clash of Google and…
Today at CanSecWest I stopped by the Google booth and picked up a yo-yo. As I was about to open the package, something struck me: ‘Google… Made in China’ Oooops…….
Google’s decision to stop censoring search results in China may lead the Chinese government to block access to its sites. Google on Monday announced it has stopped censoring search results in China. The announcement came amid speculation that the search giant would pull out of China entirely and sets up a showdown with the Communist…
Google has put up a page that shows what Web services are currently being blocked by the Chinese government. http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en
Google.cn is now redirecting to google.com.hk [ Hong Kong google servers ] – this has happened after the cyber attack on google china servers in december. right now if you try to access the google china web, news and image search are being redirected to google.com.hk Below is short snippet of the update about this…
Do you know what the latest version of Adobe’s Flash Player is? If you don’t, you may very well fall for this: Flash Player 11? There are more than 3 million pages linking to this alleged version 11: Most pages are from unsanitized forums, but there is even a Google Ad for it! Ooooops…. The…
— 7.68 Terabits/s for growing Asian market — $300 million cost (from consortium of six companies) — 10,000 km length (Chikura in Japan to Los Angeles) — Increases capacity across Pacific by 20 percent — Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing technology (960Gbps per fibre-optic pair with a maximum of eight fiber pairs) — construction time: two…
At age five most kids can hop, skip and tie their shoes without help. Google Code turns five this week, and while they’re still working on the shoelaces thing, they’ve grown from a simple site for hosting a couple of APIs into a destination for developers to prototype their ideas in a Code Playground, host…
Scheduling meetings is tough, but rescheduling is even harder. We all know how frustrating it can be to try to find just the right time that accommodates everyone’s availability and preferred working hours. Throw in different time zones and conference rooms and it goes from painful to excruciating. We’d rather schedule dental appointments. On the…