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Why is that? Well, focusing on demand is a tricky thing to do. For decades, the economy's engine of demand has been American consumers - a population now overindebted, underemployed and endowed with a newfound sense of thrift. The explosion in credit-card and home-mortgage debt before the recession...
The Internet giant's extraordinary insistence that it would no longer censor the search results on Google.cn - the second leading search engine in the country with the most Internet users in the world - appears to be leading to the demise of its Chinese-language search business. Beijing was never going...
Google's stunning pronouncement in January that it would no longer censor Google.cn may have given a thrill to human-rights activists the world over, but a lot of investors were - and remain - furious. Since posting the announcement on its website on Jan. 12, Google's stock price has declined...
The electronic controls used by automakers today have helped make cars dramatically safer, notes Chris Gerdes, a Stanford University expert in automotive engineering, who has volunteered to defend Toyota. But engine software codes are closely guarded secrets, even within a company. "It's the vehicle's DNA," says Michels, echoing...
But routers are not the only cause of bottlenecks, and Cisco is not alone in working to maximize the Internet's full potential. Google is also concerned about the speed limitations imposed by wires that run to the home. Last month, Google, best known for its search engine, announced plans...