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...Google's move into the operating-system space, long dominated by Microsoft, is not good news for Redmond, Wash. The last thing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer needs is to compete against Google's (presumably) free operating system, which supposedly can drive anything from a netbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google's Chrome: Taking Aim at Microsoft — and the iPhone | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

Google's interests are perfectly aligned with a free and open Web. That's its brilliance. Google dominates the Web platform. The more you use the Web, the more likely you are to use its hugely popular search products, and the more ads Google will sell, targeted at you. It doesn't really matter which browser you use to get there - Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google's house browser, Chrome - as long as you use Google Search, Maps and any of the other suite of fine, free Google products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google's Chrome: Taking Aim at Microsoft — and the iPhone | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...Several women said family members had been detained in mass police arrests the previous day. "Free my husband! Free my husband!" cried a group of women wearing head scarves. "He has heart disease," one woman said of her arrested husband. "He didn't go out yesterday or the day before, but still they took him." The women estimated that thousands of men had been arrested. They dumped out plastic bags that held more than 100 pairs of footwear and trousers, which they said police had forced the detainees to take off when they were arrested. Urumqi Party Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Deadly Riots, Ethnic Tensions Heat Up in Urumqi | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

...that showed several minutes of footage of the mostly Uighur rioters attacking civilians and destroying property. Unlike the official response to the deadly unrest last year in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, when the region was closed to outsiders for several months, journalists in Urumqi were given relatively free rein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Deadly Riots, Ethnic Tensions Heat Up in Urumqi | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

...universal values" not as an ideal form of government but as a way of correcting inevitably imperfect governments. He spoke mainly of the American example - how freedom of speech allows minorities to petition for equal rights, how competitive elections allow citizens to hold their leaders accountable and how a free media expose corporate and government corruption. Then he made the topic personal. (See pictures of Obama in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Treads Lightly on Democracy in Russia | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

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