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Gartner on doing business in China: Privacy? What’s that?

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jie zhang Tim Greene

Jie Zhang

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Jie Zhang says that as a child in China she played a game picking up marbles with chopsticks and performing the delicate task of carrying them to another room without dropping them. That’s what doing business in China is like for Westerners, she told a breakfast gathering today at Gartner’s Security and Risk Management Summit.

They have to get used to long-standing customs and practices that violate some basic business principles respected outside of China and some new ones that deal specifically with technology.

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Network World Tim Greene

Mozilla: We’re not getting money from Google any more but we’re doing fine

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For many years, Firefox developer Mozilla generated substantial income from a sponsorship deal with Google; the search and advertising firm paid Mozilla in return for Firefox making Google its default search engine. That deal was ended last year, with Firefox defaulting to Yahoo in the US, Yandex in Russia, and Baidu in China.

Given the prior dependence on the Google deal, this was a big shift for the open source browser developer. Mozilla has just released its 2014 financial report; last year it had just shy of $ 330 million of revenue, 98 percent of which came from its search deals.

In 2014 that meant the Google deal, but now the organization says that it isn’t receiving anything from Mountain View. Although Google remains the default search engine within Europe, Denelle Dixon-Thayer, Mozilla’s chief business and legal officer, told CNET that “We don’t have a commercial relationship with Google at this point.”

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Ars Technica » Technology Lab

Parents more worried about online safety but doing less about it, survey finds

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What are we to make of this survey data from FindLaw.com?

Seventy-six percent of 643 parents surveyed say they are extremely, very or somewhat worried about their children’s online safety, up from 64 percent in 2011. And the “not worried at all” contingent has been cut in half from 14 to 7 percent.

Meanwhile, 66 percent of those polled say they are taking steps to reduce online risks – monitoring, site-blocking, etc. — which represents a decline from the 74 percent who said they were taking such precautions four years ago.

More are worried. Fewer are doing anything about it. What gives?

My best guess: fatigue combined with a sense of futility.

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Network World Paul McNamara