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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, San Francisco

Breakfast briefing: Google and China summarised, while Apple gears up for iPad day

• Hard to miss the big story overnight: Google's decision to stop censoring its Chinese search engine and send the traffic to its uncensored Hong Kong site instead. Right now that means that Google is once again subject to the Great Firewall - and while human rights groups are happy and Beijing has reacted severely. You can follow how it happened on our liveblog or read my thoughts on how the situation developed.

• Google wasn't the only game in town, however. Plenty of Apple news, with the US release of the iPad just a few days away. It seems the company has convinced more publishers to join its ranks, while a survey of customers says awareness is pretty high. Meanwhile, the New Yorker's James Surowiecki takes an erudite look at Apple's chance of success and points out that at the very least the company is continuing its plan to avoid the "soft middle" of consumers.

• And if all that is a little too heavy for you, let's try something a little lighter. New York's Museum of Modern Art has bought the "@" symbol... sort of. In fact, it has acquired the "design act" as a way of representing the fact that this previously little-known piece of typography has become incredibly important in the information age. Let's see where this goes.

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