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Daily Archives: September 29, 2004

Consumer Reports’ Surveys Competition in Online International Airfares

Global Concerns: An In-Depth Examination of Travel Web Sites Selling International Airline Tickets

  • “Consumer WebWatch wanted to determine if competition was more or less intense in the international market. The conclusion of this test is that online
    competition within the international airfare arena is indeed robust. Despite relatively high ticket prices, many of the sites tested closely or exactly matched
    their competitors’ fares repeatedly throughout.”
  • Yahoo Really Gets RSS – A Big Step Forward

    In his September 27 posting on the Yahoo! Search Blog, Scott Gatz from the My Yahoo! Team details the new RSS features incorporated in the redesigned My Yahoo! beta release. For additional information, see also New My Yahoo Beta, Featuring RSS and Atom, from Jeremy Zawodny’s blog (Jeremy is a Yahoo developer, author, blogger and… Continue Reading

    Patriot Act Provision Struck Down by Federal Judge

    In a 120 page decision today, Doe and ACLU v. Ashcroft et al., No. 04-CIV-2614, Judge Victor Marreo, Southern District of New York, “struck down an entire Patriot Act provision that gives the government unchecked authority to issue “National Security Letters” to obtain sensitive customer records from Internet Service Providers and other businesses without judicial… Continue Reading

    Review of State Sponsored Policies and Technologies Used to Filter Internet Access

    A Starting Point: Legal Implications of Internet Filtering (PDF 16 pages) “In this paper, the Open Net Initiative (ONI) considers some of the legal implications of controlling access to Internet content through filtering. ONI — a research partnership of the Berkman Center, University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, and the University of Cambridge — documents Internet… Continue Reading