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China Mobile Getting Desperate for iPhone, iPad Deal?

in Mobile on March 18, 2010 at 9:16 am PT

Four years after starting talks with Apple, China Mobile, China’s largest wireless phone operator, is still seeking to add the iPhone to its smartphone lineup. But these days, the carrier sounds a bit more optimistic about a deal. During a Thursday news conference, China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou said his company hopes to soon sell both Apple’s iPhone and iPad.

Tussle in Brussels: The EC’s Oracle-Sun Hearing, Day 1

in News on December 10, 2009 at 12:48 pm PT

Oracle is defending its planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems before the European Commission this week, and according to the company’s legal team, the first day of arguments went quite well. “I am extremely happy,” Oracle attorney Thomas Vinje said of the first half of the two-day hearing in Brussels.
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Does Your Mom Edit Your Blog? Google Wants to Know.

in Media on November 5, 2009 at 9:30 am PT

Why did Google start labeling blogs as “blogs” in its search results? Eric Schmidt thinks it may have to do with your mother.
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Apple Finally Hops the Great Wall: China Unicom Announces Three-Year iPhone Deal

in Media on August 28, 2009 at 3:33 am PT

Apple’s long-awaited entry into the Chinese phone market is finally here. Or at least it will be by the end of the year: China Unicom says it has struck a three-year deal with Apple to sell iPhones in China that will kick in during the fourth quarter.
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New Chinese Version of Google SafeSearch Eliminates Google Entirely

in News on June 25, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

Google’s mission, to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible, has once again run afoul of the Chinese government, which has a similar goal, but would much prefer that certain information stay inaccessible. And so, on Wednesday evening, Chinese citizens found themselves once again unable to use Google, Gmail, and YouTube as their government condemned Google as a purveyor of porn.