In its efforts to compensate for a strong Google free email offering, Yahoo botched its initial attempt to offer additional free storage. Many users - some even upgraded, paying customers - are reporting that rather than adding storage, they are...
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The survey fielded by Burst and MediaPost on viewer attitudes about user tracking and targeting showed that women are less comfortable with the idea of sites keeping tabs on behavior than men are. About 27 percent of men indicated they...
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A majority of young Australian drivers report that they not only use their mobile phones while driving, but that they look down to read incoming text messages. They also, ironically, report that using phones while driving is a major road...
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Scoring some points for the anti-spam tactic of suing individuals, Yahoo won a six-figure settlement from a Canadian man who allegedly sent hundreds of millions of messages to Yahoo's free email users. 25-year-old Eric Head, along with his father and...
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PriceGrabber released beta versions of Canadian and British versions of its price comparison service. The British preview will include high tech items, like computers, gadgets, software and photography products. The Canadian version will reflect the wider variety of categories currently...
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He thought he was doing something nice when he began to offer free hosting for weblogs, but Userland co-founder Dave Winer found the burden too onerous when his former company made him take over the task himself. So last weekend,...
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Wanadoo, the British ISP and search company attracted the ire of regulators by mixing in listings based on relevance with listings based on how much advertisers paid. The warning parallels noises the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has made to major...
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British fashion brand Hope & Glory launched a viral ad tuned to Britain's two favorite pasttimes: soccer and making fun of the Queen. The creative can be seen here, and complete appreciation may require either British citizenship or at least...
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LookSmart, which once sold directory listings on a "one time fee" basis, was forced to settle with those customers once it changed business models to a pay-per-click model. Customers who had purchased listings prior to April 9, 2002 were receiving...
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) delivered its verdict on the efficacy of a Do-Not-Spam Registry, suggested by Congress and to be modeled on the highly successful Do-Not-Call Registry. The FTC said no, and did it rather unanimously and emphatically. FTC...
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A decision to dismiss class action suits against Northwest Airlines - accused of violating its own privacy policy - means that many online privacy policies may prove unenforceable without further legislation. The judge noted that privacy law tends to be...
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