Plus Bittorrent lives!, Kin returns and more
Baidu's headquarters. Photo by simone.brunozzi on Flickr. Some rights reserved
A quick burst of 6 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
How Baidu Won China >> BusinessWeek
In print, it's the cover story with "Be Evil" as the headline: "The world knows Baidu as the search engine that kicked Google's butt out of China, with an assist from the Communist Party. The company has a 73 percent share of the world's largest Internet market by users, and has the fifth-largest market capitalization ($38.3 billion) among the world's pure-play Internet companies, trailing Google, Amazon.com, Tencent (an instant messaging and gaming company based in Shenzhen), and only narrowly, eBay.. It's now 57 percent bigger than Yahoo! ? and with significantly brighter prospects. Baidu "has the best business in the world," says Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray (PJC). "It's hugely profitable, with massive growth ahead in the population of Chinese Internet users, and the government backing it up. Essentially it's a state-sponsored monopoly.'"
Confirmed: Kin One and Two are returning to Verizon. Wait, what? >> Engadget
Without the expensive data plans that sank the Microsoft-acquired Danger phones this time. Most likely to get rid of surplus stock.
Bram Cohen on the Future of BitTorrent: Video >> Gigaom
"BitTorrent co-founder and chief scientist Bram Cohen explained today at GigaOM's NewTeeVee Live conference that the company hopes to help content creators reach its sprawling user base (80 million active users per month) and, within a matter of months, release its long-awaited P2P solution for live streaming."
UK government creates Entrepreneurs' Forum advisory board. Which ones are just celebrities? >> TechCrunch UK
You're invited to help figure it out in the comments.
Microsoft vs. McAfee: How free antivirus outperformed paid | ZDNet
"How effective is free antivirus software? I had a chance to see a real, in-the-wild example just this month, and the results were, to put it mildly, unexpected. The bottom line? Microsoft's free antivirus solution found and removed a threat that two well-known paid products missed."
What is more worrying is that Ed Bott, who's very computer-savy and hardly likely to go prodding the murkier bits of the net, could have a malicious PDF and a Java file with three exploits. Then again, he wasn't afected by them because they relied on old versions which he had already updated. From which you can conclude..
One on One: Tim Wu, Author of The Master Switch >> NYTimes.com
Q: What worries you about Apple? A: As I discuss in the book, Steve Jobs has the charisma, vision and instincts of every great information emperor. The man who helped create the personal computer 40 years ago is probably the leading candidate to help exterminate it. His vision has an undeniable appeal, but he wants too much control.
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