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Apple May Be Exempt From China’s Web Filter Mandate (PC World)
Posted on 07.03.09 by templeton @ 4:02 am

PC World – Apple appears to be exempt from China’s mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country.


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Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules (AP)
Posted on 07.03.09 by templeton @ 4:02 am

AP - In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don’t have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.


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Conviction reversed in web hoax that led to suicide (AFP)
Posted on 07.03.09 by templeton @ 4:02 am

An internet user looking at a MySpace page. A woman who was convicted of computer fraud in an Internet hoax that led to the suicide of 13-year-old girl was tentatively acquitted Thursday by a federal judge.<b>(</b>AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm<b>)</b>AFP - A woman who was convicted of computer fraud in an Internet hoax that led to the suicide of 13-year-old girl was tentatively acquitted Thursday by a federal judge.



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DOJ Officially Opens Investigation Into Google Book Search (PC World)
Posted on 07.03.09 by templeton @ 4:01 am

PC World – The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed on Thursday that it is investigating a settlement involving Google Book Search for possible antitrust violations, following months of speculation that the agency had its eye on the service.


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Broadband industry group say U.S. rules go too far (Reuters)
Posted on 07.03.09 by templeton @ 4:01 am

Reuters – U.S. government guidelines to spend billion to expand broadband access to underserved areas across the United States may go beyond current laws, a broadband industry group, said on Thursday.


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Online Ad Groups Release New Behavioral Ad Principles (PC World)
Posted on 07.03.09 by templeton @ 4:01 am

PC World – Online consumers should get more information about what information is being tracked and collected for the purposes of behavioral advertising, and they should have more control over what data is being collected, according to new privacy principles released Thursday by four advertising trade groups.


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Ask.com Bets on Semantic Search, Targeting Special Audiences (PC World)
Posted on 07.03.09 by templeton @ 4:01 am

PC World – In the past eight months, Ask.com has unfurled a set of changes to its search engine that the IAC unit calls a success, although its share of U.S. search queries has actually shrunk during that time period.


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Microsoft Removes Projectile-vomiting IE8 Ad From Web (PC World)
Posted on 07.03.09 by templeton @ 4:01 am

PC World – An online ad for Internet Explorer 8 that showed a woman projectile vomiting has left such a bad taste in viewers’ mouths that Microsoft has decided to remove it.


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Internet used to help young smokers quit (Reuters)
Posted on 07.03.09 by templeton @ 4:01 am

Reuters – The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is leading a .9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment for young adults aged 18 to 24 years.


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Gamer steals from virtual world to pay real debts (Reuters)
Posted on 07.03.09 by templeton @ 4:01 am

Reuters – Facing real world debts, a trusted figure in a popular online game stole money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for cash through the black market.


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