Google Transparency Report Replaces China Serviceability Chart
Google's thinking is that by showing where its Web services are being censored, it will embarrass the countries who are doing the censoring.
Google in China
September 21, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 1:01 PM/EST
July 30, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010 8:31 AM/EST
Google Search Off Again, On Again in China
Because of the omnipresent censorship in China, the media assumes that any outage is a deliberate block and implies that as such in their coverage without getting tacit confirmation from Google.
April 20, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:28 AM/EST
Google Gaia Hack Shows Cloud Isn't Safe After All
Google's single sign-on system, formerly called Gaia, was the access point for the Chinese cyber attack that exposed the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. Now that we know the metadata behind this hack, we may infer that Google's cloud isn't the snug bug in the rug we thought it was.
March 31, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:45 PM/EST
Did Yale Postpone Move to Google Apps over China Flap?
Yale has decided to postpone its move from the Horde Webmail service to Google Apps for Education, the collaboration suite tailored for university students and faculty. Did Google's cold war with China scare the school off?
March 29, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010 3:11 PM/EST
Google Mobile Services Partially Blocked in China
Google's mobile applications in mainland China have been at least partially blocked, according to the search engine's special Web page for service availability for that country. This update may prompt more speculation that perhaps the Chinese government is mucking up the works, but there is no evidence of this.
March 25, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:01 AM/EST
Google Calls for U.S. to Fight Web Censorship in China, Abroad
Emboldened by its move to shutter its Chinese search engine and reroute its users to Google.hk, a Google policy official argued at a Congressional meeting on China that the U.S. government should help companies combat Internet censorship abroad because it stymies economic growth.
January 29, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010 12:55 PM/EST
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Dings China's Censorship in Davos
Google CEO Eric Schmidt struck up a rallying cry for free speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today when he Google doesn't like the censorship and will pressure China to stop it. On another note, am I crazy or do I detect a subtle, but persistent undertone of condescension in the comments Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes regarding China?
January 19, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 7:29 AM/EST
Google Delays Launch of Android Phones in China
Reuters, the Associated Press and others said Google has postponed the launch of two Android phones. The delay comes one week after Google said it will stop censoring its Chinese search portal Google.cn and threatened to cease operations in the country entirely after it learned that its Gmail users were being targeted by Chinese hackers.
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