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Tech companies brace for showdown over China

News Yahoo, Google, others could face thorny questioning from lawmakers seeking to limit cooperation with restrictive regimes.

Tuesday, February 14 2006 09:01 AM

Tags: Web sites, Search, Web services

Microsoft reaches out to developers with Live

News Software giant launches Windows Live Developer Center to entice coders to write "mashup" apps on its hosted services.

Thursday, March 23 2006 10:56 AM

Tags: Web sites, Authoring, Search, Web services

Google to censor China Web searches

News Search giant agrees to censorship laws, reasoning that users getting limited access to content was better than none.

Wednesday, January 25 2006 03:30 PM

Tags: Web sites, Web browsers, Web logs, Web services

McAfee: Google developer site being used to distribute malware

News McAfee says it is finding links to fake videos that download Trojan horses on the Google Code hosting site for developers.

Monday, January 12 2009 08:11 AM

Tags: Network security, Web sites, Data security, Malware, Security, Google Inc., MSN Spaces, Google Code, McAfee Inc., Search Result

Microsoft blocking words on China's Web?

News Microsoft may have banned the words "democracy" and "freedom" from the Chinese version of its MSN Web site.

Tuesday, June 14 2005 09:39 AM

Tags: Web sites

Microsoft adds e-mail, IM to Live.com

News New Live.com-branded service provides domain name holders with e-mail, IM and access to MSN services.

Tuesday, November 22 2005 10:35 AM

Tags: Software engineering/development, Web services

Internet companies 'must respect free speech'

News Reporters without Borders has called on companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo to respect human rights, even if the countries they are operating in don't.

Wednesday, January 11 2006 02:14 PM

Tags: Legal, Politics

Microsoft clarifies policy on censoring blogs

News Under fire for removing a Chinese journalist's postings, it sets out how it will respond to government censorship orders.

Wednesday, February 01 2006 11:11 AM

Tags: Corporate responsibility, Web logs, Politics

Microsoft's CTO envisions a Web-savvy clipboard

News Ray Ozzie says Live Clipboard will let users combine structured information, such as RSS feeds and calendar items, on the Web.

Wednesday, March 08 2006 11:00 AM

Tags: R&D, Software, Web services

Gates telegraphs Microsoft's software services

News The company intends to offer server products on a hosted basis and merge its server products with Web properties.

Wednesday, September 14 2005 12:20 PM

Tags: Business applications

Google's antisocial downside

Insight The search giant plays the nerd and tends to its algorithms as a new Net generation boogies on over to MySpace.

Friday, July 14 2006 10:20 AM

Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Search, Best strategies

Microsoft staff defend staff censorship

News However, the software giant faces fresh criticism that it is helping to 'institutionalize' censorship in China.

Friday, January 06 2006 11:36 AM

Tags: Web sites, Regulations

Microsoft censors Chinese blogger

News Software giant says "unique elements" contributed to its decision to take down a Chinese journalist's blog.

Thursday, January 05 2006 09:37 AM

Tags: Web sites, Web logs, Regulations, Politics

MSN hosting '10 percent of spammers' sites'

News Microsoft's blogging service is rapidly becoming spammers' favourite place to host their wares, though it's still some way before it catches up to Yahoo's Geocities.

Monday, August 29 2005 10:13 AM

Tags: Spam and phishing