Voice Of America reports that American congressmen took to the floor today, blasting internet companies for being partners in censorship efforts, during a briefing earlier today.

One short sentence in Google’s fourth quarter financial press release has raised some eyebrows. “Google does not expect to make further donations to the Google Foundation for the foreseeable future.” But, seeing as the philanthropic arm of Google made a call for job applicants today, it doesn’t appear to have been thrown in the recycle bin.

Agence-France Presse demanded Google stop including its content in Google News, and a group of 18,000 newspapers could press search engines on the issue of content aggregation too.

The VoiceOne Communications unit of VoIP Inc. signed a pact with Google in September 2005, and Google began implementing services from the company the following month.

Ted Demopoulos and Shel Holtz have a new blog called Blogging for Business that accompanies a forthcoming book with the same name.

What’s the point of this? A 4GB portable hard drive for the Xbox 360, selling for 74.99, about $133.

American Airlines announced they would be adding tablet PCs in a technology agreement with Lenovo. The agreement allows Lenovo to provide tablets in Admirals Club lounges as an added service for business travelers.

Despite dropping almost 19% in after hours trading, many analysts have raised – yes, raised – their earnings estimates for Q1, according to CNET.

Considering that the market is having a hangover after overdosing on exhuberance on Google, Prudential is taking the gutsy move of putting confidence back into Google, raising their 2006 estimate on the company.

An important issue facing companies today is Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but, as the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is relatively new, the implementation of the regulation has not been fully established.

The company announced a new “policy framework” concerning the removal of blogs from its MSN Spaces services when requested to do so by a government.

Nowadays, when you buy a PC from Dell (or most major manufacturers) you have to reformat and reinstall to get the full performance of the hardware, as the default installation comes packed with oodles of bloatware.

The AFP reports that Bill Gates told a Microsoft conference in Lisbon that he has so much money, the IRS needs a seperate, special computer just for his financial information.

The Age asks a tough question: If Google knew its fourth-quarter tax rate was going to be almost 70% higher, did it have a responsibility to warn shareholders?

I’m in a press conference with about 15 journalists for the LIFT conference. It’s 2:30 a.m. my time, so hopefully I sound competent.

Reuters is reporting that, responding to criticism over how it pulled the blog of a critic of the Chinese government, has pledged to create rules governing how it will deal with such situations in the future.

What limits, if any, should be placed on journalist who blogs on their own personal sites?

It’s funny, even when Google denies a rumor, it still makes the news.

Bill Gates says that governments trying to censor information on the Internet are wasting their time.

The World Association of Newspapers is lobbying against Google News, a non revenue-producing search engine that sends tons of traffic their way.

Yahoo News is gearing up to implement trackbacks.

Boing Boing, Battelle, Philipp and I’m sure many others are asking that Microsoft and any others who gave up search data to the U.S. Department of Justice release it publicly, if it is so harmless.

The newest release of Microsoft’s web browser provides several new features that current users of IE should welcome.

A few hours after denying it had any intention to acquire the Napster digital music service, Google’s PR legions were called upon again, this time to disavow the Goobuntu talk.