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Internet Sales Tax Bills Likely to Be Combined

Two Senate bills that propose mandatory collection of internet sales tax will likely be combined into one that would provide exemptions to small retailers, writes InternetRetailer, quoting John Logan, senior state tax analyst at CCH Inc. "As we get further into 2006, some of the unsettled issues will get settled, making passage...more favorable," Logan says. Two versions of an internet sales tax bills were   [...]
Posted: Monday, January 16th 2006

Author of 'Wonkette' Leaving, A3G to Take Over

Ana Marie Cox, editor of the "spicy" Wonkette blog, is stepping down, handing the reins over to David Lat, an assistant U.S. Attorney who was revealed to be the author of the Underneath Their Robes judicial blog in November,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 5th 2006

FTC Says CAN-SPAM Works Well

In its report to Congress on the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said the law is indispensable in the war on spam but subsequent anti-spam measures must be technological, writes ClickZ. FTC officials summarized the report's findings during a press conference, during which they also discussed enforcement initiatives undertaken together with Canada and those with some southern states. However, only 2  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 21st 2005

New JibJab Video '2-0-5' Is Year-End Round-up

'Half of Europe Hates my guts...' Gregg and Evan Spiridellis's latest online animated jab, titled "2-0-5!" - once again aimed at at P  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 16th 2005

Double Whammy: DirecTV to Pay $10.4 MM in Fines

The FTC has levied on DirecTV a fine 10 times greater than any other penalties related to the do-not-call law. The satellite TV provider was charged with not sufficiently overseeing the contractors it used to sell its services, reports AdAge (vi  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 16th 2005

Broadband for All and a Chicken in Every Pot

Democrats in the House of Representatives have proposed an "innovation agenda" calling for affordable broadband access in every home within five years, writes AdAge. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) said the goal is to keep the country the "most competitive and innovative nation in the world." The plan calls for, inter alia, a national broadband policy that takes broadband to rural and underserved communities and supports new broadb  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 16th 2005

Google Offers Free Wi-Fi to Mountain View

Google will make a pitch to its hometown Mountain View's city council to offer free Wi-Fi access to the city, reports MediaPost. "This proposal is in the same spirit of making the world's information easily and quickly accessible as our recent San Francisco Wi-Fi bid and is technically comparable to that initiative," Chris Sacca, Google's principal of new business development, is quoted as say  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 15th 2005

Microsoft Scrambles onto Privacy Law Bandwagon

Microsoft, typically opposed to national privacy laws, has apparently switched course - possibly to avoid having to deal with stricter state laws - and joined eBay and Hewlett-Packard in supporting national legislation, AdAge reports (via MediaBuyerPlanner). Microsoft's senior VP/general counsel and corporate secretary Brad Smith cited growing w  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 7th 2005

FTC: State Email Registries Put Kids at Risk

States that set up "Do Not Email" child-protection registries actually put kids' contact info at risk, according to a letter by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) addressing proposed child protection legislation in Illinois, but also apparently aimed at warning other states that already have or are planning to set up such lists, writes ClickZ. Utah and Michigan have   [...]
Posted: Friday, November 4th 2005

Watchdog Asks FTC to Tackle Adware Firm

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Integrated Search Technologies and several of its affiliates for installing adware without first obtaining consumers' informed consent, reports MediaPost. The group charged that Montreal-based Integrated Search Technologies distributes ad-serving programs by bundling them with NegativeBeats.com, a site based in  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 4th 2005

Pajamas Media Blog Network Announced

The scheduled November 16 launch of a right-leaning blog network Pajamas Media was officially announced last week by cofounder Roger L. Simon, although it will include mainstream journalists from the likes of CNBC and the New York Times - and even the left-leaning The Nation, reports CNET. The Pajamas Media sit  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 24th 2005

Intermix Ex-CEO to Pay $750K Spyware Fine

Former CEO of Intermix Media Brad Greenspan has agreed to pay a $750,000 fine to settle a spyware suit brought by the New York State attorney general's office, reports AdWeek. The agreement includes an admission that under Greenspan's direction Intermix avoided informing consumers t  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 21st 2005

Yahoo Agrees with States to Control Chat Rooms

In an October 7 agreement reached with the attorneys general of New York and Nebraska, Yahoo said it would institute system-wide controls over chat rooms likely to be used by pedophiles and shut them down, reports Reuters. Yahoo said it had suspended all user-created chat rooms on June 15 and is evaluating   [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 13th 2005

Delaware Court Protects Blogger Anonymity

The Delaware Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that if an elected official who claims that he has been defamed by an anonymous blogger cannot use a lawsuit to reveal the identity of that writer unless there is substantial evidence to prove the claim of defamation, reports the New York Times. That standard "will more appropriately protect against the chilling effect on anonymous First Amendment Internet speech that can arise when   [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 6th 2005

U.N. Wants to Run the Net, U.S. Says No

The United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is ready to take over the internet's governance from the U.S., ITU head Yoshio Utsumi said on Friday, a day after the U.S. clashed with much of the world at a two-week conference preparing for a U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, in Tunisia, in November, reports Reuters. The U.S. now manages the internet via  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 3rd 2005

Broadband Penetration Best in Blue States

In its updated broadband report, Leichtman Research Group found that at the beginning of 2005 broadband penetration of households in the U.S. stood at close to 29 percent nationwide, and that disparities in penetration are largely related to v  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 28th 2005

China Tightens Screws on Online News

China has imposed more limitations on online news and information and has sharply restricted the type of content it will permit on websites in what is apparently part of a larger effort to halt liberalization in the news media, particularly online, which has become a dominant source of news and information for urban Chinese, writes the New York Times. "The foremost responsibility of news sites on the Internet is to s  [...]
Posted: Monday, September 26th 2005

U.S. House Panel Unveils Telecom, Broadband Bill

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday announced draft legislation for overhauling U.S. telecommunications laws to address new technologies, such as internet video and voice services, reports Reuters. "We need a fresh new approach that will encourage internet providers to expand and improve broadband networks, spur growth in the technology sector and develop cutting-edge services for consumers,"  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 16th 2005

Yahoo Snitched on Now-Jailed Chinese Journalist

Apparently joining the ranks of ignoble foreign companies in China scurrying to please its despotic government with some dastardly deeds of their own for the sake of safeguarding their business interests in what is set to become the world's largest internet market, Yahoo has been accused of snitching on a journalist for "divulging state secrets" and helping to land him in a Chinese prison, reports the BBC. "We already knew that Y  [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 8th 2005

French-Funded 'Quaero' to Tackle Google, Yahoo

French president Jacques Chirac this week said France would help fund a new European internet search engine to rival Google and Yahoo and promised to counter the threat of Anglo-Saxon cultural imperialism, writes the U.K.'s Telegraph (via paidcontent). "We're engaged in a global com  [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 1st 2005