Google's change of heart

Posted on Wed 13 January 2010 in geek • Tagged with censorship, china, google, politics

So Google are finally having second thoughts about their relationship with China. We may see then end of google.cn as a search engine that filters search results that might embarrass the authorities.

Google got a lot of stick at the time when they first created their Chinese presence. In …


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Going Mobile

Posted on Tue 08 January 2008 in geek • Tagged with cod4, data, google, ps3

I spent bits of yesterday getting final meter readings in and cancelling my Sky account. The rest of it was taken up with a fair amount of cursing at Call of Duty 4 as I struggled my way through act 3. Having the rest of the household point out the …


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Web 2.0 apps that are worth it?

Posted on Wed 18 October 2006 in geek • Tagged with google, rss, web2.0, webapps

Web 2.0 is a lovely little marketing buzzword that is bandied about a lot. It refers to the concept of applications running on your web browser. It used to be that people thought Java apps would be what everyone would want but it turns out that AJAX can provide …


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