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After Google said it would reevaluate its business in China, everyone from Om to Hillary Clinton has had something to say. To understand how the world beyond Silicon Valley sees it, we turned up some sources you might not go to on an everyday basis. Read more »

Google earlier today made a bold decision — it stopped censoring results on Google.cn, its Chinese destination. This will most certainly get the company banned from China and it is going to cost it hundreds of millions of dollars. Read more »

Mark it up to the holidays, maybe, but online video viewing declined last month, with the number of online video views falling about 4 percent from November to December and viewership declining at four of the top five video properties, according to new data from Nielsen […] Read more »

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Google’s Nexus One phone is a heap of fun to play with, but so far in the U.S. the only 3G network you can access it on is that of T-Mobile. There are two issues at play: the network and the radios. Read more »

While the economy’s longer-term health remains as uncertain as ever, the outlook for tech is – for the next several months, at least – getting brighter. Companies feel more comfortable spending on new technology as well as online ads. And consumers are spending more. Read more »

Forget the phone. The big news out of Google today wasn’t the Nexus One, but the web store that the company created as a way to get a certain class of Android devices it calls superphones into consumers’ hands and gain some control over the OS. Read more »

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Holiday spending has seen sales of Apple’s Magic Mouse soar. According to a report by NPD and covered today by AppleInsider, last month saw a twofold increase in Apple’s share of domestic mice sales. By the end of November, Apple had captured 10 percent of the […] Read more »

Toktumi CEO Peter Sisson talks about how he’s managed to grow despite launching the wrong product initially and Google’s entry into his market. He also highlights how he plans to take his hosted telephone system to the next level by going mobile. Read more »

Live tweets and news are now showing up on Google, if our recent search for”Iranian Cyber Army” is any indication. Google appears to alternate between tweets and news in a box in the upper half of its search results. Read more »

What’s the Italian word for “schadenfreude?” YouTube lost a copyright infringement suit to Mediaset — the Italian broadcasting firm that Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi founded — just a few days after clips of Berlusconi being assaulted began appearing on it and other sites. A court in […] Read more »

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Bandwidth.com isn’t a name most people are familiar with, but it could become one of the leading voice providers over the next few years. Despite bringing in about $85 million in sales this year, Bandwidth.com sees voice as merely a launchpad for even more communications services. Read more »

After losses and drama, more than $100 million in outside funding and a $500 million valuation, reports say London-based Spinvox could be bought for a mere $150 million by Nuance Communications, as Nuance tries to consolidate its leadership position in speech and voice recognition services. Read more »

Google is making its second underwater cable investment, an effort to link parts of Asia Pacific and add up to 23 Tbps of bandwidth capacity to the region. The construction is part of a boom in submarine cables fueled by broadband demand. Read more »

Carriers are rapidly losing their power in today’s mobile ecosystem. To stay relevant they will have to become more agile, learn to share and use their cash to move ahead rather than play a waiting game hoping the Googles and Apples of the world will fail. Read more »

Welcome to our newest Monday feature — Android Ecosystem! This week starts off with a huge bang — the longest and most detailed review I’ve yet seen on the ARCHOS Internet Tablet with Android. Steve Paine really put this 4.8″ non-phone slate tablet through the paces […] Read more »

New devices, app stores and rising mobile broadband usage continue are changing the way consumers and businesses interact with the cellular infrastructure and even the Internet. This is causing power to shift from the carriers to other players — something carriers are unable to admit. Read more »

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece this week, set out to argue what has been said a million times before: The Internet isn’t killing news. But while he was stating the obvious, some of his points didn’t exactly help Google’s case. Read more »

The FCC is prepping for a future without the circuit-switched network that currently handles most of the calls in this country, as we transition to an all-IP communications network. This transition requires regulatory reform, but will also enable new services that meld voice, video and data. Read more »

At an event at Google’s offices in San Francisco, the company’s director of climate change and energy initiatives, Dan Reicher, said that Google will make a step into clean energy project investing. Read more »

Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge wonders if servers should come with batteries. At least two web giants — Google and Facebook — are answering with an emphatic “yes.” And if such a strategy catches on, it could spell good news for IT vendors. Google raised […] Read more »

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Reader Murray Chapman has been doing some international traveling lately and noticed an odd problem using Gmail on his trips. Murray found that he would not be able to access his Gmail, and once he lost access he couldn’t get it back. Not to be outdone […] Read more »

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According to a report this week on The Mac Observer, Apple and AT&T have been presented with a class action lawsuit by a customer who accuses them of misleading the public by advertising the MMS capabilities of the iPhone 3GS despite not making those capabilities available […] Read more »

ARM and more than 35 other companies have banded together to create an alliance dubbed the Solution Center for Android, which is aimed at increasing the resources available for developers trying to build for the relatively young OS on top of ARM hardware. Android, an open-source, […] Read more »

[qi:090] Even though less than 1 percent of the population uses Google Voice, David Erickson, president of the Free Conferencing Corp., a conference call company whose numbers are blocked by the service, is pretty aggrieved. So he met with the FCC and filed a letter urging […] Read more »

[qi:058] Updated: In yet another attempt to help folks feel that Google is a warm and friendly repository for all of their data, the company is offering a chance to see everything it knows about you all in one place called Google Dashboard. Except that much […] Read more »

[qi:gigaom_icon_cloud-computing] Thanks to the amazing viral powers of Twitter, I found a series that CNN is running on cloud computing, complete with stories (I liked the one on server huggers) and fun video about an oddly named dog. The goal clearly is to explain cloud computing […] Read more »

Verizon Wireless launches the Motorola Droid this Friday (as if you hadn’t heard), and the carrier is opening “many” of its 2,000 retail outlets early (7 a.m. or 8 a.m. local time) to accommodate what it hopes is a rush of new customers. Call your local […] Read more »

[qi:004] T-Mobile service experienced a hiccup yesterday evening that left some 2 million users without service, and the usual rush of tweets and news stories followed the outage. On Monday night Rackspace, which provides managed hosting and cloud services, also experienced problems that took some customers […] Read more »

The new Motorola Droid is pretty hot today. It’s a phone! It’s a brand! It’s an iPhone killer! But here at GigaOM we decided to ask a far more important question, “Is it a RAZR killer?” Can today’s Droid phone top the world’s most ubiquitous mobile […] Read more »

Carbon capture technology is like a half-baked web tool, according to Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt: in need of some “debugging.” The chief of the search engine giant made the comments at Google’s headquarters this morning, where he interviewed Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. Chu, who was […] Read more »

This is looking like a packed week for climate change regulation and government spending meant to remake the energy industry — the Department of Energy just announced new funding for very early stage energy projects, and there will be major debates in the Senate over the […] Read more »

The FCC today approved a draft of proposed rules that aim to ensure that the owners of the broadband pipe can’t discriminate against certain traffic on the wired and wireless Internet. For readers already weary of hearing about this debate, the pre-game trash talk and threats can finally end, and we can start arguing about a solid plan. Read more »

[qi:043] Everything today is connected. And that may be bad news for that PC sitting on your desk or the high-powered laptop that you tote around on business trips. In an increasingly connected world, where data is just a server request away, the PC needs an […] Read more »

Google said this week it might buy a big company “every year or two,” targeting “some accelerant that it would provide for revenue, some major, major user base that we did not currently have access to.” What’s surprising isn’t that Google is thinking this way, but […] Read more »

Time to stop procrastinating and reserve your ticket to NewTeeVee Live! Today, Oct. 16th, is your final chance to buy a discounted pass to the conference. For just $395 (a sliver of other industry conferences, and $200 less than our walk-in ticket), you’ll get a jam-packed […] Read more »

Google’s announcement that it will launch Google Editions, its e-book publishing platform, next year, may have gotten a lot of attention among publishers and e-book enthusiasts, but it’s more than just a Kindle killer. While Google’s plan to offer readers access to 400,000-600,000 books on any […] Read more »

AT&T today countered Google’s claims that it’s blocking Google Voice calls to rural areas because they’re directed to free conference call lines and sex hotlines engaged in the dubious practice of so-called traffic pumping by trotting out a convent of Benedictine Nuns who apparently can’t receive, […] Read more »

Arthur Levinson, former CEO and chairman of Genentech, has resigned from the Google board. He is going to remain on the Apple board, however. Levinson, Apple and Google had been under fire for the presence of Levinson on the boards of both companies. His resignation is […] Read more »

Amazon today released a series of APIs as part of its new Amazon Mobile Payments Service that allow developers to build mobile payments into their applications, and to tie them to Amazon’s 1-Click payment option. For developers this gives them a way to let consumers buy things […] Read more »

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