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It appears that color E Ink readers aren’t as far from being commercially available as most have thought. E Ink Holdings (formally PVI), the group responsible for the screens housed in Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Readers, is leading the way by offering samples of its color panels to manufacturers. In addition to creating color-capable displays, the new screens are capacitive, meaning all their touch-based interactions will be drastically improved. While Amazon may not want any part of this now, as it waits for a more established and tested technology to emerge before releasing a multicolored Kindle, China-based Hanvon has already taken the bait, promising to release color E Ink readers by the end of the year. Who knows, maybe in a couple of months they’ll be kicking things off with a smashed ice sculpture of Amazon’s logo, hailing death to the drably colored Kindle. [From: Engadget]
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Since withdrawing its services from the Chinese mainland due to concerns over the governmental censorship of online content, Google has been rerouting Chinese searches to its uncensored search page based out of Hong Kong. The Chinese government, of course, is none too pleased with Google’s clever maneuver, and, in response, is threatening to reject the company’s application to renew its Internet Content Provider license. Now, however, Google is reportedly offering to stop redirecting China’s users to the Hong Kong page, in a desperate attempt to curry favor with an apparently intransigent regime.
The Chinese version of the Internet may be watered down and heavily censored, but, for many of that nation’s youth, it holds the same kind of allure that keeps the rest of us glued to our laptops all day. For some, though, allure soon turns into outright addiction, and, in response, many Chinese parents are now sending their kids to digital “rehab” clinics to cure them. The effectiveness of these clinics is arguable, and the methods employed there are controversial. But, for one group of inmates at a clinic in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, an Internet-free existence was so unbearable 
Really, it was only a matter of time. 
