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Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules
(AP)
2 Jul 2009 at 6:08pm
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.
Conviction reversed in web hoax that led to suicide
(AFP)
2 Jul 2009 at 3:36pm
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.
DOJ Officially Opens Investigation Into Google Book Search
(PC World)
2 Jul 2009 at 3:30pm
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.
Broadband industry group say U.S. rules go too far
(Reuters)
2 Jul 2009 at 2:31pm
Reuters - U.S. government guidelines to spend $4 billion to expand broadband access to underserved areas across the United States may go beyond current laws, a broadband industry group, said on Thursday.
Online Ad Groups Release New Behavioral Ad Principles
(PC World)
2 Jul 2009 at 12:50pm
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.
Ask.com Bets on Semantic Search, Targeting Special Audiences
(PC World)
2 Jul 2009 at 11:40am
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.
Microsoft Removes Projectile-vomiting IE8 Ad From Web
(PC World)
2 Jul 2009 at 10:50am
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.
Internet used to help young smokers quit
(Reuters)
2 Jul 2009 at 10:25am
Reuters - The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is leading a $2.9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment for young adults aged 18 to 24 years.
Gamer steals from virtual world to pay real debts
(Reuters)
2 Jul 2009 at 10:18am
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.
Conficker: Forgotten but not Gone
(PC World)
2 Jul 2009 at 9:56am
PC World - Conficker may not dominate the headlines any longer, but it's still going strong, according to Trend Micro's Malware Blog and stats from the Conficker Working Group.
Xbox 360 Dashboard Ads to Get Animation, Audio
(PC World)
2 Jul 2009 at 9:36am
PC World - What's worse than paying $50 a year more than Games For Windows Live gamers, just to play Xbox 360 games online?
Microsoft adds selected tweets to Bing
(AFP)
2 Jul 2009 at 9:29am
AFP - Microsoft is integrating messages from prominent users of Twitter, the hot micro-blogging service, into the results generated by its new Internet search engine Bing.
Jay Leno wins cybersquatting case
(Reuters)
2 Jul 2009 at 9:25am
Reuters - Comedian and talk show host Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a U.N. agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct Internet users to a real estate website.
Bing Searches Up-To-the-Minute Tweets on Twitter
(NewsFactor)
2 Jul 2009 at 9:13am
NewsFactor - Bing is now doing Twitter. The recently launched Microsoft search engine is now allowing users to search for various kinds of real-time data, including tweets from Twitter.
Facebook revising privacy settings
(AFP)
2 Jul 2009 at 9:08am
AFP - Facebook is revising its privacy settings to give the more than 200 million users of the social network the ability to share as much or as little about themselves online as they want.
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