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From Ben Edelman, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School: Survey of Domain Registration Services – “Numerous competitive registrars offer diverse domain registration services to individuals, companies, and organizations. This site attempts to index and analyze their service offerings, facilitating analysis by other researchers and in preparation for additional analysis by the author.” …
According to News.com, Microsoft will include a a pop-up blocker in the new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP, early next year.
Online Drug Pharmacy Shuttered: U.S. District Judge Claire V. Eagan (Northern District, Oklahoma) shut down Rx Depot, a company based in the U.S. that allows consumers to purchase prescription medications from Canada at signifcantly reduced cost. See also the FDA Statement on Rx Depot Decision
In Amazon’s Text-Search, a Field Day for Book Browsers: Feedback about Amazon’s recently launched Search Inside the Book feature includes kudos for the keyword search capability, predictions of increased book purchases, and opinions that the tool is a novelty and time waster.
The Senate vote on a ban on taxes for Internet services (ISPs, music and entertainment) was postponed due to lack of agreement on the time frame for the extension (either five years, or permanently). States contend that lost revenues from a permanent ban will amount to more than $20 billion per year. Internet Tax Non-discrimination …
The Federal Trade Commission issued a news release today on a temporary restraining order obtained from District Court, Northern District of Maryland against D Squared Solutions, a company that bombarded Windows Messenger service users with pop-up ads, whether or not consumers were on the web. Complaint for Injunctive and Other Equitable Relief Temporary Restraining Order …
Amazon’s Search Inside the Book database which allows consumers the chance to search the text of books and print pages (up to 100 in some cases) prior to purchase, ran into controversy with its launch October 23. Today Wired reported that the service will no longer permit users of the service to print pages that …
New on LLRX.com this week: LLRX Named One of the 10 Best Sites of the Decade Researching Medical Literature on the Internet — 2003 Update To Portal or Not to Portal – That is the Question Competitive Intelligence (CI) Resources: Staying One Step Ahead in Your Research Presentations Without a Laptop FOIA Items of Interest …
Today’s New York Times reported that Google seems intent on pursuing an IPO in early 2004 (with an offering of 10-15% of the company’s stock), and that talks with Microsoft have not resulted in any form of agreement.
With Amazon having significantly increased the stakes in the e-commerce arena with the recent introduction of their Search Inside the Book service, news that a formidable new adversary may be actively exploring entering the same market. An article from yesterday’s Publishers Weekly,The Amazoning of Google? Search Firm Looks for Book Content, indicates that “Google has …
According to a new Nielsen//NetRatings study (link not available, and commissioned by Newsstand), “users of so-called e-editions of print publications are shown to be more affluent, better educated and heavier users of the Internet than the average online user.” [Link thanks to dc] See also this pbs.org interview by Terence Smith that “examines the growing …
This link is to the text of an email sent by the Author’s Guild to its 8,000 plus members, voicing concerns about Amazon’s new Search Inside the Book database: The Guild questions whether proper permissions were received from the authors of the 120,000 books in Amazon’s database. In addition, the organization has deteremined that it …
