Today in tech: Google exits China, our skin becomes the keyboard

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Google exits China

The will they/won't they battle has finally come to an end with Google announcing this week it will no longer censor Chinese search results. The reaction from the country and the industry at large has been somewhat mixed. IT PRO

The Pirate Party sails again

The Pirate Party is calling for file sharing to be legalised, despite those around it calling for those who file share to be cut off or given a large slap on the wrist and a big fine. PC Pro

Touch screens are so last year

Forget touch screen devices or hybrid hard keyboard and touch affairs. The devices of the future could make use of our own skin to input commands and type texts, according to researchers. Expert Reviews

History put on the web

Historians have been given access to the past at the touch of a button thanks to a Connected History web project that has essentially created a dedicated search engine for the cause. BBC

Maggie Holland

Maggie has been a journalist since 1999, starting her career as an editorial assistant on then-weekly magazine Computing, before working her way up to senior reporter level. In 2006, just weeks before ITPro was launched, Maggie joined Dennis Publishing as a reporter. Having worked her way up to editor of ITPro, she was appointed group editor of CloudPro and ITPro in April 2012. She became the editorial director and took responsibility for ChannelPro, in 2016.

Her areas of particular interest, aside from cloud, include management and C-level issues, the business value of technology, green and environmental issues and careers to name but a few.