Google’s threat to leave the China market was not made because of some higher moral calling but instead was a carefully crafted business decision to make one last attempt to generate interest in their China services before throwing in the towel and doing so without hurting the Google brand’s image of inevitable success.

I have been accessing Google via IPv6 for the past few months thanks to the nice people at Hurricane Electric. Every once in a while when using Gmail, I will get a security error warning me that the SSL certificate for mail.google.com does not belong to that site (see below).  This only happens over IPv6. [...]

I saw a post a few weeks ago on Planet OpenID describing the difficulty a tech savvy user had trying to login to an OpenID-enabled site using a Yahoo!-provided OpenID. In the problem described in iwoman’s post, a tech savvy user gets confused by the fact that Yahoo tells you “your OpenID is xyz, but [...]