Microsoft Will Continue Chinese Strategy In Search, Cloud

Mar 06

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Microsoft Will Continue Chinese Strategy In Search, Cloud
By: Nicholas Kolakowski
2010-03-06

Microsoft executives have indicated repeatedly throughout 2010 that the company intends to stay in China and compete aggressively for the search and cloud-computing markets, despite some controversy between the Chinese government and Google earlier in the year that saw the search-engine giant briefly threatening to pull its operations from the country. Both Microsoft and Google lag behind homegrown Chinese search engine Baidu in that market, considered one of the world’s fastest-growing. Both Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Google CEO Eric Schmidt have reaffirmed their commitment to human rights within the context of doing business in China.

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Soldier’s Facebook post about raid gets him jail

Mar 06

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Meanwhile, in the United States, the Department of Defense is loosening the security in regards to social networks … glorious!

Soldier’s Facebook post about raid gets him jail
by Shira Rubin – Mar. 3, 2010 03:15 PM
Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Israel’s military has “unfriended” one of its own — after a combat soldier potentially updated Israel’s enemies on Facebook.

The military said Wednesday that a planned raid on a West Bank village was called off after the soldier disclosed its details online. The military said the soldier posted the time and location of the raid on his Facebook page, saying that troops were planning on “cleaning up” the village.

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