The past few days have been good for Google. First it was a hot new Google-branded cell phone, followed up shortly thereafter by a new link-shortening service. This may seem like a very common feature these days with services like Bit.ly, but keep in mind that Google's big business is ads. The more it knows about where people are going on the Internet, the more advertising power it wields.
We also lead today's podcast with a developing story about a potential code ripoff of Plurk.com by Microsoft's MSN site in China.
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Microsoft pulls China site amid code-theft charges
Google gets into the URL-shrinking biz with Goo.gl
Smartphone share of cell phone sales set to soar
Inside the Google phone: A 'snappy' chip
Does Twitter mean business with 'Contributors' test?
Australia moves toward mandatory ISP filtering
Symantec confirms zero-day Acrobat, Reader attack
Google is navigating tricky territory when it comes to working with government censors in China. CNET News editor Michelle Meyers talks to reporter Tom Krazit about the balance between the company's stated goal of making the world's information widely available and the requirement that all Internet companies doing business in China adhere to government regulations.
Plus, big job cuts at MySpace, and a service to help Web sites avoid blacklists and malware. All this and more on Tuesday's CNET News Daily Podcast.
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Today's stories:
MySpace slashes head count by 30 percent
Best Buy's earnings take a dip
Global broadband access on the rise
Google's censorship struggles continue in China
Dasient helps Web sites avoid blacklists, malware
Take CNET News on the run with you--or in the car or the plane, for that matter. The CNET News Daily Podcast brings you the highlights of the quotidian happenings in the technology industry.
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Novell CEO sees Suse Linux 11 in the data center
Though the first animal cloned successfully from an adult was done 12 years ago, the technology is still out of reach for non-scientists. That is, until now. News.com intern Holly Jackson had a chat with the CEO of BioArts, a biotech company auctioning off several opportunities to clone a pet dog. The first auction will start at $100,000, and the procedure isn't short on controversy.
Also in today's podcast: Yahoo tries out YMail.com, Jerry Yang takes a trip to Capitol Hill to quash any antitrust concerns surrounding its search ad partnership with Google, plus we check in with Daniel Terdiman on Road Trip 2008.
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Today's stories:
Auctions could fetch big bucks for cloned dogs
Yahoo hopes to lure users with Ymail.com
Yang talks up Google partnership in Washington
China antipiracy agencies denies probing Microsoft
Road Trip 2008: Computer sprawl at Geek Squad City
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CNET News.com's Ina Fried is at The Wall Street Journal's D6 conference in Carlsbad, Calif., this week where she caught Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's sneak peek at the next incarnation of Windows with a multitouch interface--and that's triggered keen interest in the blogosphere.
News.com's Declan McCullagh has the latest on a looming political confrontation over setting rules of the road for Silicon Valley's dealing with restrictive regimes.
Now that the unmanned mission to Mars has landed without a hitch, the space probe has begun sending back photos--and you can find them at News.com.
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Rafe Needleman is editor of CNET's Webware. He's been covering technology since 1988, and has interviewed thousands of tech execs. He blogs at 
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Erica Ogg keeps up on the latest consumer electronics and PC goings-on as chief correspondent for CNET News' Crave blog.
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Josh Lowensohn writes for Webware.com, CNET's blog about Web applications and
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