Network security concerns prompt postponement of Google phones in China
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has decided to indefinitely postpone the launch of two of its Android smartphones to the Chinese market, which pundits have taken as further proof of the growing rift between the search giant and the Chinese government.
Tongues wagged last week as Google announced that it had traced the source of a large-scale cyber attack that targeted its corporate systems to China, and would henceforth no longer comply with the censorship restrictions that the Chinese government required the company to enforce on its Google.cn web portal.
The smartphones, which were manufactured by Samsung and Motorola, would have seen Google partner with wireless network China Unicom to provide voice and data services. The Journal says that Motorola could prove to be one of the losers in the Google pullout, as it has invested heavily in making phones for an OS that could soon be unwelcome in the world's biggest wireless marketplace.
Even the U.S. government has now gotten involved, according to CNET, with the State Department requesting a formal explanation for the cyber attacks from China.
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