Google says China blocking mobile services
Google's mobile services in China are being disrupted, the company has said.
China is starting to block Google's mobile services, the web giant has claimed.
Last week, Google moved its Google.cn site from being hosted on the mainland to servers in Hong Kong, so it could stop censoring its search results.
Google told the Financial Times that access to its mobile services is beginning to "fluctuate".
On a website tracking which services are being blocked, Google has flipped its mobile services marker from "no issues" to "partially blocked".
It's the only real change on the chart over the past week, with web and image searches still available, and sites like YouTube and Blogger blocked as they always have been.
Read on for our timeline of the Google versus China battle.
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Freelance journalist Nicole Kobie first started writing for ITPro in 2007, with bylines in New Scientist, Wired, PC Pro and many more.
Nicole the author of a book about the history of technology, The Long History of the Future.
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