Become.com Goes Live with Web’s Largest Search Engine for U.S. Shopping Information [Link] “…a search engine that helps people find product reviews and relevant buying information, today announced the launch of a new 3.2 billion page shopping index, registration-free access to its search engine, and the introduction of product-focused spell checking.” Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2005
Consumers Opposed to Cell Phone Use in Flight
New Poll Shows Air Travelers Are Strongly Opposed to Lifting the Ban on Cell Phones in Flight, April 7, 2005. “The poll, sponsored by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA and the National Consumers League, was conducted as the Federal Communications Commission moves ahead with a rule-making process aimed at lifting its ban on cell phones… Continue Reading
A Reminder About the National Debt
U.S. National Debt Clock – The Outstanding Public Debt as of 12 Apr 2005 at 02:28:37 AM GMT is: $7,797,789,055,078.33 Related references: from the April 10, 2005 New York Times, A Tax Increase That Bush Didn’t Mention, and from the IRS, Alternative Minimum Tax, Tax Tip 2004-51, March 15, 2004 Continue Reading
Commentary on Restoring Civil Liberties and Revising Patriot Act
New York Times Editorial, April 10, 2005 – Revising the Patriot Act Continue Reading
Call for Canadian Copyright Reform and P2P File Sharing
Piercing the peertopeer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience by Michael Geist, First Monday, volume 10, number 4 (April 2005): “Canada is in the midst of a contentious copyright reform with advocates for stronger copyright protection maintaining that the Internet has led to widespread infringement that has harmed the economic interests of Canadian artists.… Continue Reading
Commentary on Electronic Snooping and Its Impact on Privacy
Goodbye to Privacy, by William Safire, April 10, 2005 New York Times Book Review, focuses on the pervasiveness of electronic data collection of personal information on U.S. citizens, by a range of companies. Two recent books, No Place to Hide and Chatter, Dispatches From the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping detail at great length post… Continue Reading
Transcript of Oral Arguments in P2P Case Heard by Supreme Court March 29
From the School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley, the transcript of oral arguments, March 29, 2005 (55 pages, PDF), in MGM v. Grokster. [The Peer-to-Peer Weblog] Continue Reading
State Legislation to Protect Personal Data Hits Roadblocks
In States Scramble To Protect Data – Dozens of Privacy Bills Introduced After Spate of Security Breaches, the Washington Post reports that privacy legislation is under consideration in 28 states. However, industry support for a carefully crafted response on the federal level presents serious challenges to the future of these bills. Continue Reading
One of World’s Most Prolific Spammers Sentenced to Prison Term
Judge Sentences Man to 9 Years in Prison for Using Fake Internet Addresses to Send Mass E-Mail Ads. Links to relevant legal documents available from JURIST Paper Chase. Continue Reading
Guide to Weblogs in Special Libraries
Weblogs: Their Use and Application In Science and Technology Libraries (12 pages, PDF), by Geoff Harder and Randy Reichardt. Continue Reading
BBC Campaign Weblog
“Welcome to the Election Monitor, the BBC News website’s campaign weblog. From now until polling day, we will be bringing you first-hand reports from around the country from our team of correspondents, as well as the best of the newspapers, choice morsels from the web, and your e-mails.” Also provides an RSS feed. Continue Reading
DoD Website Taken Offline in Controvery Over Access to Gov’t Docs.
The message on the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Joint Electronic Library website today reads as follows: “This website is under review. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.” Secrecy News reported “that the site was taken offline overnight after unclassified documents on the site became the subject of news stories and public controversy.”… Continue Reading
