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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech last week about China and free speech has not been warmly received by the Chinese government. According to Min Dahong, the Chairman of the Beijing Association of Online Media, Clinton’s insinuation that “China lacks freedom of information and speech is in fact disrespectful and doesn’t stand up.”
Meanwhile, China [...]

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After a decade of staunch and relentless support for using Microsoft Outlook in conjunction with the POP3 protocol, as opposed a webmail service, I have made the switch to using Google Apps with my domain.
This is not a big step for me; it is a huge one.

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Rupert Murdoch’s war against free content continues. The yesteryear tycoon recently complained about search engines “stealing” news content from his pay-to-read sites – such as WSJ.com – and spreading it around for free. Murdoch is particularly not fond of the concept of free use, and would like to see it put to death entirely.
Murdoch’s News [...]

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iThis, iThat

August 3, 2009

in Commentary

Here’s the scoop in a nutshell: Google created a bundle of applications called Google Voice which allows consumers to combine multiple phone numbers (work, home, etc) into one line, handling calls, text messages, and voicemail conveniently through one number.Voice also enables consumers to make cheap international calls, and provides free domestic calls and text messages. [...]

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