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China pays web surfers to find porn: report - Yahoo! NewsChinese authorities have offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 dollars) to Internet users who report websites that feature pornography, state media reported Sunday. However, the censors' latest campaign against content that harms public morality appears to have encouraged Internet users ...
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Official Google Blog: Finding the laws that govern us11/17/2009 09:05:00 AM As many of us recall from our civics lessons in school, the United States is a common law country. That means when judges issue opinions in legal cases, they often establish precedents that will guide the rulings of other judges in similar cases and jurisdictions. Over ...
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IEEE Spectrum: British Government: We Want Access to Your Every Phone Call, Email and Web SearchIn England, your home may be your castle, but the government will soon be able to get a rather good idea of what is happening inside it. The British government has decided to go ahead with its plans under what it calls the Intercept Modernisation Programme to force every telecommunication ...
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Judge orders Facebook spammer to pay site $711 million - Oct. 30, 2009A California judge awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against spammer Sanford Wallace for bombarding the web site with junk messages. "We won another battle in the fight against spam," said Facebook, which announced the Oct. 29 ruling on its Web site on Friday. Wallace, who has also been ...
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Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo fight Google Books - Aug. 21, 2009Three of Google's biggest online rivals have joined the fight against a court settlement that would give Google the rights to sell millions of books on the Internet. Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) confirmed Friday that it has agreed to join a coalition opposing the Google deal. Amazon (AMZN, ...
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Ethics: Trust and confidence in the people who hold the keys | Servers and Storage | TechRepublic.comTwitter attacked! Content stolen from the Kindle? Yes and sort of. In both cases, ethics were compromised at a very high level, resulting in a crisis of faith in some of the companies involved. I think that IT pros everywhere — and particularly system administrators, who have high-level access ...
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Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! - Update | Epicenter | Wired.comKayak, the popular multi-airline airfare search engine, thinks Microsoft Bing’s new travel search engine looks so much like its own that it’s confusing Kayak users. The travel search company sent Microsoft a legal letter last week telling them to cut it out, Wired.com has learned. Microsoft ...
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Google trial in Italy: freedom v. responsibility - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.comAn Italian court on Tuesday postponed the trial against four Google executives accused of defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused. All four deny wrongdoing. The case could set the tone for new limits on sharing videos and ...
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Is YouTube Close To Profitability? -- YouTube Google -- InformationWeekAn April 2009 report from Credit Suisse did nothing to suggest that YouTube had finally figured things out: It predicted that Google would spend $470 million this year on YouTube, the result of high infrastructure costs without revenue to match. But on Wednesday, RampRate, a Santa Monica, ...
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Google's censorship struggles continue in China - CNN.comGoogle was going to help democratize data in China. Instead, about three years after entering the Middle Kingdom, the search company still finds itself in an uncomfortable working relationship with government censors. For about eight days between June 3 and June 11, Google.cn blocked all ...
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