Owen Fletcher - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 15/03/2010 Smartphones spread slowly in China, despite 3G and iPhone

China now has the iPhone and more big-name smartphones are due in the country, but few buyers overall are choosing smartphones despite promotion by Ch...

Article | 11/03/2010 Motorola to put Bing search on Android phones

Motorola will start loading Microsoft's search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones...

Article | 11/03/2010 Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing

Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microbl...

Article | 8/03/2010 Thailand approves credit card hacker's extradition to US

A Thai court has approved the extradition to the U.S. of a Malaysian man allegedly involved in hacking credit card information, causing massive losses...

Article | 8/03/2010 Android largely unharmed in Google-China row

A mobile phone with Google's Android operating system that was delayed in China will now ship next week, in the latest sign that Android has gone larg...

Article | 5/03/2010 Company puts Android on laptop with China-backed chips

A Chinese company is tweaking Google’s Android operating system to run on a laptop using homegrown Chinese microprocessors, which are backed by the go...

Article | 1/03/2010 ICANN head visiting China after 'dot-China' request

The head of the global Internet addressing authority will visit China this week, according to people briefed on the matter, highlighting questions abo...

Article | 25/02/2010 Source: Google cancels Android developer event in China

Google's row with the Chinese government has led it to cancel an event for Android developers in China next week, according to a person familiar with ...

Article | 24/02/2010 Xerox sues Google, YouTube and Yahoo over search patents

Xerox has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo, Google and YouTube alleging infringement of Xerox patents on search and integration technology.

Article | 23/02/2010 China further tightens rules for domain name owners

Web site owners in China will have to start submitting personal photos to register their sites with the government under new trial regulations, China'...

Article | 22/02/2010 China's president skips Twitter, opens state-tied microblog

Chinese president Hu Jintao has opened a microblog, adopting the technology despite his government's work to stifle free speech by microblog users in ...

Article | 22/02/2010 Chinese schools deny role in Google hack

Two schools in China where computers were reportedly linked to cyberattacks on Google and other companies have denied involvement in the hack, Chinese...

Article | 22/02/2010 Google closes On2 acquisition for $US124.6 million

Google has finished its acquisition of video-compression-technology vendor On2 Technologies, boosting its efforts in online video.

Article | 8/02/2010 World of Warcraft seeks reapproval in China gov't tangle

The China operator of World of Warcraft, one of the world's biggest online games, said Sunday it will seek new government approval for the game, dragg...

Article | 5/02/2010 Lenovo adds mobile phone details, posts profit rise

Lenovo's work on mobile phones with Google's Android operating system is focused on its high-end Lephone handset, but the company also wants to reach ...