India has urged social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove offensive material and self-censor user generated content, unleashing a storm of criticism from internet users complaining of censorship in the world's largest democracy. One of the first major government pushes came in April, when the " Information Technology Rules 2011 " were introduced. These rules require intermediaries - companies like Facebook, Google and Yahoo,

On Friday 2 nd September Baidu has launched its new Android-based mobile OS called 'Baidu Yi' )Yi meaning Simple( at the Baidu World event in Beijing. Because it is based on Google's Android OS it has kept most of the same core features such as integrated voice search and a single sign-in to provide access to a vast offering of cloud-based apps and mobile backup services. Baidu has however replaced most of the Google Apps and replaced them with its own.