Motorola To Put Bing on Android Phones in China

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 11th Mar 2010 18:55 UTC

Motorola will start loading Microsoft's search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China.

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Eww

by BigDaddy on Thu 11th Mar 2010 21:34 UTC

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2006-08-10

Microsoft on a Google phone? That just sounds so wrong. And you know there will be no way to remove it unless you root the device.

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RE: Eww

by Fettarme H-Milch on Sun 14th Mar 2010 00:01 UTC in reply to "Eww"

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2010-02-16

Microsoft on a Google phone?

No, it's a Motorola phone using an OS by the Open Handset Alliance.

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Hilarious...

by tomcat on Fri 12th Mar 2010 00:14 UTC

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There's a delicious irony about this story. Google may eventually come to regret its stance on China.

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RE: Hilarious...

by Ikshaar on Fri 12th Mar 2010 21:50 UTC in reply to "Hilarious..."

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Not sure there is much to gloat there for MS either... "we got chosen because we agree to help China crush any political dissents"...

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RE[2]: Hilarious...

by Fettarme H-Milch on Sun 14th Mar 2010 00:07 UTC in reply to "RE: Hilarious..."

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Not sure there is much to gloat there for MS either... "we got chosen because we agree to help China crush any political dissents"...

Google has no problems with "crushing any political dissents". Google was active in China for years obeying all its laws.

China has new regulations that force IT companies to let the Chinese authorities inspect the source codes -- "coincidentally" announced shortly before Google reported its sudden problems with censorship.
All that humanitarian talk is just marketing to cover up the real reasons.

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