Search: Human Rights in China (HRIC) asks Google to rethink its censored search service there, telling the company that it’s not too late for corporate leadership. Not helping Google’s defense, in which executives claimed that access to its main search engine in China is painfully slow, Keynote Systems analyzed the performance of 4 search engines and found that all of them — including Google — were “outstanding” in terms of full-page response times. On the home front, however, Google’s subpoena hearing was delayed until the middle of March. From the feature well: Outsourcing the desktop can reduce expenses while eliminating PC management and infrastructure headaches for companies large and small. Take New York City for example. It consolidated 32 autonomous school districts under one department and brought together half a million pieces of computing equipment to serve 130,000 employees and 1.1 million students. The news beat: Hewlett-Packard is aiming its OpenView Business Process Insight squarely at utilities, and promising that the software will be available for more verticals through a series of partnerships. Microsoft push e-mail from DataViz will become available on non-Microsoft devices before Windows-based handsets. And Riverbed Technology is set to unwrap today products that give remote workers and small branch offices better WAN performance. Technology Industry