Google is actively negotiating with China over web censorship according to CEO Eric Schmidt.

Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right — with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China — and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey.

The leading social networking site in China, renren.com, started out as a blatant Facebook clone – but it now has tens of millions of users. Despite obvious similarities to Facebook, there is one significant difference from the U.S. in how Renren and other Chinese SNS are used

In early January, Google told the world it wasn’t going to censor its search results for China anymore. In early March, Google tells Congress it’s mulling its China options.

Washington D.C. is full of noise about cyberwar and how the U.S. is losing it, but the real target isn’t China or Russia — it’s the open internet.

You see, this isn’t our first run-in with BlueBerry . Nay — this is a firm that has shadowed Waterloo’s moves for some time, so when it came time for the real thing to make the transition from trackballs to optical pads, the Shenzhen doppelganger naturally had to follow suit

If the Google gets booted out of China, the country’s scientists won’t be happy: A large majority say it will hurt their research according to a new survey.

That little memory chip serving tunes to your smartphone, the one that’s just a sneeze or twitch away from going where the socks go whenever you take it out, has a far more interesting history than you think. Andrew “Bunnie” Huang, co-creator of the Chumby , explored the surprisingly interesting underside of microSD production in China after being given a batch of questionable memory cards direct from Kingston itself. Huang’s conclusion is that the chips were created during a “ghost shift,” when a rogue employee runs the manufacturing lines after hours to produce authentic looking but decidedly sub-par memory chips using materials of inadequate quality

On January 12 Google claimed that hackers from China had attempted to break into its infrastructure, in order to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Because of those hacks , along with other malware attacks on Gmail accounts and ongoing concerns about the Chinese government limiting free speech on the Web, Google said in its blog that it was “no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn” and that it would discuss with the Chinese government operating “an unfiltered search engine.” If unsuccessful, Google said that it might close down or cut back its operations in China. It’s now over 6 weeks since Google’s original blog post, but there are no signs that the company has stopped censoring its search results in China – let alone shut down Google.cn.

Intel was also a victim of a cyberattack at the same time as the high-profile attack on Google, adding it to the list of companies allegedly targeted by Chinese hackers. The company revealed the information Tuesday in its annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, noting that the attack could harm Intel’s business operations if any intellectual property was stolen.