The U.S. Supreme Court again barred the 1998 Child Online Protection Act from being enforced, deeming it a violation of speech rights in its current form and sending it back again to a lower court for additional consideration. "Content-based prohibitions,...
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Omnicom's Agency.com said today it bought Exile on Seventh, the San Francisco interactive agency most known for its work for eBay and Wells Fargo. The 20-person shop will be folded into Agency.com's San Francisco Office, and its brand name banished....
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Email firm Return Path announced it is buying NetCreations, a similar technology firm that concentrates on email deliverability, tracking and permission list acquisition. NetCreations President Michael Mayor will continue to lead the division and join the Return Path board of...
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AOL CEO Jonathan Miller said he plans to let Advertising.com function largely as it has in the past, without a great deal of interference from the AOL mother ship. He pointed to the Yahoo-Overture merger as a good example of...
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Online spending rose by 59 percent from Q1 2003 to the same quarter this year, with e-commerce accounting for $22.3 billion in purchases, up from $14 billion last year, according to Visa. That's a quickened pace from last year's 53...
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering deputizing the general population to create an anti-spam posse that would share out fines won in spammer convictions and settlements. The measure comes as the Justice Department has failed use the Can-Spam Act...
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Apple announced that its upcoming browser upgrade will feature RSS integration, allowing web users to use one application to view both the web and syndication feeds that are proving more and more popular among publishers. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication,...
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A new Kelsey Group study shows that small- and medium-sized businesses are moving very quickly to use Internet yellow pages. Almost a quarter were shown to be using the online listings, up 60 percent over 2003. iMedia reports....
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published its top-ten list of silly patents that stand in the way of Internet innovation. None of the items on the list - winnowed down from more than 200 suggestions submitted on its website -...
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Amazon is trying to fire some French workers. The Seattle-based e-tailer is finding, as with many employers of French outfits, the business unfriendly laws, courts and customs make it difficult to do so. Many American firms are finding that having...
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