Slashdot reports that “[a]t the annual shareholder meeting, Google put forth for voting a proposal for the company not to engage in self-censorship, resist by all legal means the demands to censor information, inform the user in case their information was provided to the government, and generally not to store sensitive user data in the countries with below average free speech policies. As this proposal, if passed, would effectively mean the end of Google’s China operations, the shareholders rejected the document at the recommendation of the Board of Directors.”

The WSJ Startup Journal today has an interesting article about the “do’s and don’t’s for outsourcing tech.”

According to MSNBC, the Internet’s key oversight agency ICANN announced Thursday that “[n]ew Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008.”

Internetnews.com writes that “Lenovo announced Thursday it has signed a deal whereby the largest Chinese computer maker will continue to ship fully licensed copies of Windows and other Microsoft products on all PCs sold inside China.  ‘With today’s agreement, Lenovo and Microsoft not only continue their strategic business partnership, we also partner to achieve one of the most important goals of international business: the protection of intellectual property,’ said the Chinese firm’s statement, quoting Chen Shaopeng, senior vice president of the Lenovo Group and president of Lenovo Greater China.”

According to the Mercury News, “[t]he Thai government abruptly scrapped plans to sue Google after the U.S. company agreed to remove from a Web site video clips deemed insulting to the country’s revered king, an official said Friday.”