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Google China chief quits, reasons unknown

Blogs Google Inc's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, has resigned with--two days after his departure--no clear reason. The 49-year-old Taiwan-born, US-educated executive had been with Google ever since its official launch in China ... Read story »

Sinobytes--the CNET China tech blog--has landed

Blogs With some trepidation, I am proud to have been handed the reigns of CNET's China tech blog; and with a new blogger comes a new moniker: Sinobytes. The previous writer, Ryan ... Read story »

Hands-on with Microsoft Office Web Apps

Crave Microsoft has finally started to open up its Web-based versions of Office apps to early testers. Last week we got access to a "technical preview" of Excel and PowerPoint on the ... Read story »

Google shows us the way to explain outages

Blogs Check this out: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-on-todays-gmail-issue.html Google explains in detail how Gmail died for about a hundred minutes. Patiently. My favorite excerpts: "We had slightly underestimated the load which some recent changes (ironically, ... Read story »

Competing browsers gain on Internet Explorer

Crave Internet Explorer rivals generally gained market share in figures from July, shown at top, and August. After resetting its methodology to better account for global variations, Net Applications' browser usage statistics ... Read story »

Why China's "Great Firewall" is so anti-social (networking)...

Blogs 2009 in China has turned out to be the year of heightened Web censorship, implemented by the nationwide filtering system known--not very affectionately--as "The Great Firewall".Many hoped that the Beijing Olympics ... Read story »

Google releases stable version of Chrome 3.0

Crave Google announced Tuesday that the third stable release of Chrome is ready for the world, a little over a year after its debut. The stable version of Chrome 3.0 is much ... Read story »

Fast Flip: Google's new content browser

Crave Google on Monday released an experimental new content browser called Fast Flip that makes it possible to see a curated set of content sites using a physical "turn the pages" metaphor. ... Read story »

Google Chrome gets designer canvases from 100 artists

Crave Sixteen of the hundred themes now available for Chrome. I'm a little confused. Is Chrome supposed to be a minimally intrusive window to the Web or a splashy showcase for ... Read story »

Sina's Twitter-esque microblogging site: A closer look

Blogs China Web portal giant, Sina, has launched an invite-only beta of a very Twitter-like microblogging service. It is the first time a major Chinese Web company has tackled microblogging. Previously, smaller ... Read story »

.中国 is coming, and China is pleased

Blogs The Internet, for its 40th birthday this week, got quite a shakeup: For the first time ever, Internet domain extensions can comprise non-Latin characters. After the domination of .com, .net, .co.jp, ... Read story »

Google Chrome OS: Do you believe the hype?

Blogs As with most products that have the name Google attached to them, Google Chrome OS is generating a lot of hype--and, if this TechCrunch post is true, then Google Chrome OS ... Read story »

Eternal Internet

Blogs Ever thought about how Web pages are linked to each other? In his book Linked, Albert-Làszlò Barabàsi describes the topology of the Internet as a scale-free network. Webpages are connected to ... Read story »

Manny Pacquiao also pound-for-pound king of the Web

Blogs Manny Pacquiao not only made history Sunday as the first boxer to win seven world championships in seven weight classes, the Filipino is regarded as the world's best pound-for-pound fighter also ... Read story »

Sundar Pichai spoilt the Chrome OS Webcast for me

Blogs I'm sorry, but I found him an irritable person bordering onto rude. He's not a born evangelist. He was snappish, did not present his answers to questions properly, clearly showed and ... Read story »

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