Google Takes Aim at Beijing Censorship

CEO Schmidt Hopes to 'Apply Some Pressure,'

as Business Leaders Voice Concerns

About Growing China-U.S. Tension

DAVOS, Switzerland—Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt defended his company's recent threat to pull out of China in some of his most extensive comments on the controversial move.

"We like what China is doing in terms of growth...we just don't like censorship," Mr. Schmidt said, speaking at the World Economic Forum's annual summit here. "We hope that will change and we can apply some pressure to make things better for the Chinese people."

Mr. Schmidt's comments brought into the open a debate that bubbled up in private conversations at Davos all week—concerns about growing tensions in the relationship between the U.S. and China.

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Google wants to see client addresses in DNS queries

Late Wednesday evening, Google employees posted an "Internet-Draft" outlining proposed changes to the DNS protocol that allow authoritative DNS servers to see the addresses of clients. This way, geographically distributed content delivery networks can tailor their answers to a specific client's network location. So a client from California would talk to a server in California, while a client in the Netherlands would talk to a server in the Netherlands [read more]

Facebook : Treasures or Time-Wasters?

Free $5 Gift Card from Babies R Us, Jan 28

Today only. Babies "R" Us is offering Free $5 Gift Card to those who beccome their fan on facebook. Click on the "Become a fan" near top. Limited quantities available. eGift Card can used online and in-store at Babies "R" Us and Toys "R" Us. eGift Card expires 2/20/10.

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Best of Apophenia

Look at her, a giant in her field. See her blogs, some are them are so interesting.
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Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness

We had a small discussion in class about DNS and how it works. Here is a complimentary video that describes this amazing phenomenon with great storytelling of Jonathan Zittrain.



Don't forget comments ;]

Information Retrieval Engineer Trends

Information Retrieval Engineer Job Trends

This graph displays the percentage of jobs with your search terms anywhere in the job listing. Since May 2008, the following has occurred:

• Information Retrieval Engineer jobs increased 59%

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With Employment Trends, you can compare the frequency of job titles, companies, skills and industries in the US employment market. This Information Retrieval Engineer trend data is derived from millions of jobs indexed by Simply Hired, a job search engine.

Apple Sees New Money in Old Media

by Yukari Iwatani Kane and Ethan Smith
Friday, January 22, 2010

provided by

Steve Jobs's tablet device looks to repackage TV, magazines, just as iPod changed music sales.

With the new tablet device that is debuting next week, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry—and expand Apple's influence and revenue as a content middleman.

In developing the device, Apple focused on the role the gadget could play in homes and in classrooms, say people familiar with the situation. The company envisions that the tablet can be shared by multiple family members to read news and check email in homes, these people say.

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Could Microsoft have fixed "Google hack" prior to attacks?

When Microsoft released the highly-publicized patch for Internet Explorer yesterday, the software giant admitted that it was aware of the flaw for quite some time. "As part of that investigation, we also determined that the vulnerability was the same as a vulnerability responsibly reported to us and confirmed in early September," Redmond disclosed on the Microsoft Security Response Center. Does this mean that Microsoft could have prevented the Chinese attacks on the 33 companies by releasing patches for Internet Explorer sooner, or at the very least, that the browser would not have been one of the vectors used? Not exactly, we learned after contacting three different security experts [read more]

Reporters put Twitter, Facebook to 'Big Brother' test

Five journalists plan to lock themselves away in a French farmhouse with access only to Facebook and Twitter to test the quality of news from the social networking and micro-blogging sites. Twitter and Facebook's use as news-breaking tools has been highlighted over the past year, particularly during opposition protests in Iran that many media described as a "twitterised revolution."[read more]

Bing Continues to Grow

According to Compete.com, Bing was able to amass 53,536,766 million unique visitors in December 2009 as Microsoft’s official search engine. Note that this data is for U.S. visitors, since Compete does not track international visits.

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Apple + Microsoft?

"Once bitter rivals in the PC landscape, Apple and Microsoft could now partner to make Bing the default search engine of the iPhone, in an effort to counter the market dominance of search giant Google."

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- Nery Chapeton ^_^"

Your server this evening? Bing!

Head to bing.com and search for "margarita recipes." Mixed into regular search results, you'll see results for margaritas from a database of recipes. "Bing pulls from a number of popular recipe websites (delish.com, MyRecipes.com, epicurious.com, etc.)"

Google v. Baidu: It’s Not Just about China

By Zhuomin Wu

Most publications, including us, noted yesterday that if Google has to lose its $600 million in revenues from China by pulling out of the country, then at the very least it’s won a lot in brand and integrity points by the public, English-language and scorched-earth way they did it. Google’s halo is so bright that even now Valley thought leaders are aghast at the idea that a publicly-traded, for-profit company could have had more than just an ethical motive at play [read more]

Microsoft to delete Bing users' IP addresses after 6 months

Microsoft will eliminate all data collected on Bing users after six months. The software giant said it sent a letter to the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, a collection of the EU's top minds on data protection and privacy issues, today notifying it that the company would reduce the amount of time it stores IP addresses from searchers from 18 months to six months before deleting them.

Currently, Bing takes search data and separates the user's account information (such as e-mail or phone number) from the non-personal information (such as what the query was) and only after 18 months does Microsoft take the additional step of deleting the IP address and any other cross session IDs associated with the query. The only difference with the new policy is that the IP address will be removed completely at six months to provide greater user privacy protection; the rest of the process will remain the same, since Microsoft says it needs the data to make search better for consumers [read more]

Microsoft: Better Off Split Up?

Nearly 10 years ago, on April 3, 2000, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered that Microsoft be broken up into two companies -- one to develop and sell operating systems, and the other to develop and sell other types of software.

Ten years on, Microsoft is struggling to maintain its dominance in a world in which Google thrives, Apple is resurgent, and the Internet has arguably become more important than operating systems. Where would Microsoft be today if it had been split in two a decade ago? There's no way to know, of course, but I think there's a reasonable chance that the two resulting companies would have thrived and been better able to fend off Google, Apple and other competitors.

Why would two Microsofts be better off today than one? The primary reason is that a split might have altered the corporate culture and led to different business and investment decisions. In 2000, Microsoft had no serious competition, either in operating systems or productivity suites. Both Windows and Microsoft Office were virtual monopolies. The company was a money machine with no serious challengers in sight [read more]

Chinese Attack on Google Among the Most Sophisticated Attack

A Chinese cyber-assault on Google and more than 30 other U.S. companies was the most sophisticated online attack ever seen outside of the defense industry, according to experts from anti-virus firm McAfee interviewed by Wired. Google announced on Tuesday that it would no longer censor information on its search portal per Chinese government rules, and may stop doing business in China entirely [read more]

Important News of the Week

By Norik Davtian, Jan 14
China has said that foreign internet firms are welcome to do business there "according to the law".


By Sara Javanmardi, Jan 13
American Dialect Society picks 'tweet,' 'Google' as top words for 2009, decade