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The license allows Google to operate its China-based site Google.cn. Last year, the company's license renewal appeared to be in doubt after Google decided months earlier it would no longer censor its search engine results in the country

Sina Weibo, a social networking platform, has 200 million registered users. Despite the censorship, Sina Weibo has become a platform for users to expose scandals and criticize government officials

Sales and shipments of PCs in China outweighed those in the U.S. in Q2, but the U.S. will be back in the lead in Q4, says research firm IDC

Published reports claim 34 large firms, including Dow Chemical Co. and Yahoo Inc., were attacked due to a security hole in Internet Explorer discovered by Google Inc. Google discovered a command and control server

Analysts at VeriSign Inc. said attacks were launched by attaching malicious files to e-mails but later retracted its claim. Adobe Systems Inc. has patched a vulnerability in its Portable Document Format (PDF) software but a researcher from F-Secure Corp. says PDFs were used to attack both Adobe and Google Inc.

A human rights watchdog urged governments in U.S. and Europe to adopt new legislation that would prevent Internet companies from censoring their content or keeping records of users' online behavior in China, the group said in a report released on Thursday.

Is censorship on the same moral plane as human rights issues? Should tech companies always comply with the laws of countries in which they operate? Canadian experts share different perspectives on these issues.

The Chinese government has ordered all computers sold in the country to have legal software preloaded on them, in an effort to reduce piracy, according to a report Monday on the English-language Web site of Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency.