The Independent:
Home > News > People > Profiles — At the annual meeting of Google shareholders on 8 May 2008, a motion was proposed from the floor which called for an end to the company’s activities in China. — When, two years previously, the world’s largest internet firm had finally started doing business …
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Dragon iPhone app tweaked, search tool released — Nuance, which makes Dragon voice-to-text software, is forging ahead in the iPhone app market. — Over the weekend, the company updated its Dragon voice dictation app for the Apple iPhone and unveiled a new Dragon Search app to let you find info via voice.
Matt Asay / CNET News:
An application war is brewing in the cloud — Today’s cloud-computing vendors focus on infrastructure, but that won’t be the case for long. It can’t be. As competing vendors seek to differentiate themselves, they’re going to move “up the stack” into applications.
Seth Rosenblatt / CNET News:
The 10 best new Firefox add-ons of 2009 — This past year felt like a rebuilding year for Firefox add-ons, with two new frameworks implemented to help guide the future of extensions. Personas gave Firefox on-the-fly theme-switching, and users can expect it to be part of the stable version of Firefox 3.6 when that gets released.