A little later than anticipated, Google is confirming that China has renewed its ICP license — the rights one needs to host a site on its own domain in China. Without that Google would certainly be on the outs, but after resuming limited broadcasts there last month there was hope the two global powerhouses would work out their differences. And, it appears they have — at least to some degree.

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China renews Google’s license to host

We’ll be straight with you, the Engadget staff is somewhat ambivalent about 3D : some of us believe it to be a gimmick, while others see it as a legitimate advance in film technology that takes our movie enjoyment up to its next logical station.

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Toy Story 3 in 4K 3D: does higher-res equal higher enjoyment?

Remember how awesome and clever Futurama was the other night ? Well, if you missed it, your chances to see it in its original form might be slowly dwindling. It seems that Comedy Central has wiped out the reference in the dialogue to the “EyePhone 2.0.” So, while we don’t have any conspiracy theories brewing about what happened, it’s a pretty odd thing to scrub, and we figure there are two possibilities: either Comedy Central is trying to cover their on this one, or they got a late night email from..

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EyePhone reference mysteriously disappears from online clips of Futurama

Well, it looks like that “entirely legal” workaround to Google’s censorship woes in China may not have been the answer the company hoped it was.

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Google modifies its policies in China, resumes hosting some content on Chinese servers

The iPhone 4 ’s massive launch hasn’t been blemish free, with reports of spotty displays (which seem to have disappeared) and antenna woes being rather widely reported.

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Is the iPhone 4 having proximity sensor troubles?

Google announces a “new approach” in China as it battles with Beijing over the censorship of internet search results.

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It’s not quite the ceasing of operations that the local papers were reporting last week, but Google has announced today what it’s calling an “entirely legal” way of giving mainland China unfiltered search results . The Google.cn domain now redirects to its Hong Kong servers via Google.com.hk, providing uncensored access in simplified Chinese — needless to say, any mainland Google China servers have thus been given an early retirement.

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Google.cn now rerouting to Hong Kong domain, an ‘entirely legal’ workaround to censorship woes

Just when you were hoping things would get better for the bickering search giant and nation-state, along comes apparent word from Shanghai-based Chinese Business News (via Bloomberg), citing an anonymous Google China employee, that the company is looking into closing up shop on April 10th.

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Google China could be ceasing operations in April, says report

Whether for real or for show, Google tried to make the world believe it would use Android OS as a bargaining chip during the company’s terse, slow negotiations with China. Now, the company has seemingly abandoned that option. During an educational webcast about the future of Google’s mobile business, CFO Patrick Pichette told viewers that he expected the company’s Android platform to do well in China despite all the recent threats and ultimatums in the country.

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Google says Android should ‘flourish’ in China, effectively concedes a point

A Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology spokesperson has today delivered a statement affirming China’s willingness to allow Android devices to operate within the country without restriction so long as they adhere to the nation’s laws. This means that whatever China’s response to Google no longer obeying its censorship edicts may be, it won’t be to disallow Android — which kind of makes sense considering the growing roster of OPhones out there, all running a remixed version of the dessert-loving mobile OS. Then again, Google’s latest power play was to hold back Android handsets from entering China, so we’re not entirely sure how much the Mountain View outfit cares about the Middle Kingdom’s apparent benevolence.

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China says Android can stay, misses Google’s point