links for 2006-02-03

• ► Bill Gates Keynote at Microsoft Government Leaders Forum Europe 2006 - Web Industry Trends • .: Internet Ad Sales :.
  Gates: "One thing I think that's important to recognize is that the revolutionary nature of using the Internet for voice communications and for video delivery really has just been touched."
  (tags: video audio internet)
• A Capital Idea in Google China
  "With the postscript "Enjoy the liberation while you can, citizens," the Web site Crypticide recently unleashed a way to beat Google's censoring of its new Chinese search engine results."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google search censorship freespeech)
• Tech Firms Look to Capitalize on China's Growth
  "When BEA Systems Inc. founder, Chairman and CEO Alfred Chuang says he wants to see China become an IT power, he is not alone. All the technology companies that have placed early bets on China are thinking the same thing."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch BEAsystems internet)
• U.K. proposal to police the Web hits hurdles | CNET News.com
  "Another government tech policy has been defeated by the British House of Lords, with members rejecting plans to give police more power over terrorism-related content on Web sites."
  (tags: internet terrorism surveillance privacy)
• » Google to $260 | Rational rants | ZDNet.com
  "My target for Google stock at the end of the year: $260."
  (tags: google search)
• Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Chinese professor hits out at Google
  "A Chinese media professor strongly criticised Google today for caving in to Chinese government demands that it censor its own service, saying it was damaging to the prospects for a freer press in China."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech google search)