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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google's China head Lee Kai-Fu will be leaving the company, a Google source said on Friday, leading to uncertainty about the search giant's plans for the region.

Zenit.org ).- The Archdiocese of Washington is taking several steps to block a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in the U.S. capital.An archdiocesan press release reported Tuesday that Archbishop...

The president of the Google's Greater China operation and the subject of a bitter employee custody battle between Google and Microsoft is reportedly leaving the search giant.

In 2005, Lee decamped from Microsoft to take over Google's China operations, sparking a legal battle between the companies. Now he's starting his own venture.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc should develop a privacy policy for its plan to digitize millions of books that limits use of consumer data, the Federal Trade Commission said in a letter to the company.

It wasn’t too long ago that we were posting pictures of Danielle Lloyd on the floor in a pool of her blood after a fight in a nightclub. Now we are posting -nearly- naked pictures of the model, who is also opening up about her sex life to Nuts Magazine. On fetishes: “I don’t really have any [...]

Sprint is preparing to offer its first smartphone running Google's open-source OS.

Privacy advocates had criticized Google's Book Search settlement as incomplete regarding its privacy policy, and Google has responded with additional commitments.

Internet giant works to gather support from proponents of digitisation schemeGoogle today attempted to rally supporters of its deal with the US publishing industry, in an effort to combat growing criticism of the $125m (£76m) agreement.In a press conference today, Google said its settlement with the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild - which was first agreed to last year - would allow millions of books to be digitised, proving many people with the chance to access information that was otherwise unavailable to them.'The obvious social justice and social utility impact that the book project is going to have ... are getting lost in the discussion,' said Professor Lateef Mtima, director of the Institute of Intellectual Property & Social Justice at Howard University, a pioneering black college in Washington.He suggested it would help 'so many segments of our society today who for decades have been left out of the communication exchange, who have been on the wrong side

The Sprint Hero features a similar body to the MyTouch 3G.(Credit: Sprint) Now that Sprint finally has announced its first Google Android phone, we thought we'd take a closer look at how it stacks up against the competition. Sprint has chosen the HTC Hero, which is the third Android phone HTC has made. The Hero was first released overseas shortly after the HTC Magic, which T-Mobile launched in the United States as the MyTouch 3G. The Hero and MyTouch 3G are similar, but the Hero offers a few key advantages. Memory The Hero and MyTouch have the same processing power, but the Hero should be faster thanks to its increased memory. The Hero features 288MB of RAM compared with the 192MB RAM on the MyTouch 3G. Many current Android users have complained about speed issues, which normally are caused by background processes that slow the phone down. Having more free memory will let the Hero be more responsive, even when multiple programs are open. Multimedia Media fans will be pleased to f