Eric Schmidt

Google Inc.'s CEO said Wednesday the Internet search company is in active negotiations with the Chinese government and expects some resolution in its dispute with Beijing soon.

Speaking at a media conference in the Middle East, Eric Schmidt declined to provide specifics or predict how long the discussions would last, saying that the company has decided not to publicize details of the talks.

El gobierno chino ha admitido que mantiene un "canal abierto" de diálogo con el gigante tecnológico Google, que en enero amenazó con abandonar el país asiático si Pekín mantenía su censura sobre contenidos en Internet. "Las autoridades competentes de China y las corporaciones internacionales de Internet han abierto un canal de comunicación", ha asegurado el portavoz de turno de la cancillería china, Qin Gang, al ser preguntado en rueda de prensa sobre las reuniones con Google.

As Internet and television continue to converge, Google is actively testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The service reportedly runs on TV set-top boxes that host Google software and enable viewers to find shows on Dish and video on web sites like YouTube. The Journal cited people familiar with the matter who said the service will allow viewers to personalize a lineup of shows.

After weeks of back-and-forth negotiations between Internet search giant Google and the Chinese government, Google says it will continue to oppose China's efforts to censor information on the Internet. For the past several years, Google has censored results on its Google.cn search engine as requested by the Chinese government. But recently, Google decided to pull the plug.

Google Inc. reeled in more Internet advertising during the holiday shopping season and approached $2 billion in quarterly profit for the first time, providing the strongest sign yet that the online search leader has shaken off the recession's doldrums.

The fourth-quarter earnings announced Thursday topped analyst estimates, but revenue only matched forecasts.

In the mobile world, alliances are shifting as fast as a good season of the Survivor TV series. The latest shift, possibly seismic, is Apple versus Google, and a new report suggests that the growing competition between the purported allies includes the possibility of Microsoft's Bing search engine becoming the default choice on the iPhone.

From Science:

La fundación Mozilla, que edita el navegador Firefox, ha reaccionado con rotundidad a unas declaraciones del máximo responsable de Google, Eric Schmidt, quien en una entrevista, al ser preguntado sobre el respeto a la privacidad en Internet, respondió que si el internauta quiere que no se sepa una cosa debe empezar por no hacerla. Schmidt alertó de que los buscadores en la legislación norteamericana están obligados a conservar datos de navegación "y es posible que esta información sea entregada a las autoridades".

Google no debe ser culpada por los problemas de la industria editorial, pero está comprometida a trabajar para ayudar a las atribuladas publicaciones a sobrevivir la transición a la era digital, afirma su presidente ejecutivo en un artículo en The Wall Street Journal. Los editores necesitan explorar nuevas formas de hacer dinero a partir de las noticias en Internet, incluido el tradicional modelo basado en publicidad, así como el acceso a contenido a través de suscripciones, afirma Eric Schmidt.

Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.

The move could be seen as laying the groundwork for an initial public offering, though the social network said Tuesday it had no plans to go public "at this time."