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Proponents of Network Neutrality have been relentless at highlighting individual Congress members' failings to protect Internet freedom. Senators John McCain and Ted…
In the who-has-the-most-search-patent-applications competition, Google has won the latest round, with Yahoo coming in second. (There is, of course, no such contest, but it makes things more interesting to pit the companies against each other.)
Those in charge of Google's trademark are kicking their desks as the brand identity they've fought so hard to protect from genericization through nasty letters and emails to everyone who dared assume "to google" meant "to search" (wow! This is one long sentence) officially became a verb by being admitted to the dictionary.
China's relentless censorship of ideas dangerous to the central government have relied on a "Great Firewall" of technology to restrict Internet access; Xia's DynaWeb proxy helps those ideas escape the US-powered technology that would stop them.
England exiting the 2006 FIFA World Cup tournament is bad news for online bookies. Nielsen//NetRatings reports that upon England's departure from the World Cup, page views at sports and gambling websites dropped by 20 million.
Although Microsoft has long espoused its Office Open XML format as a suitable alternative to the OpenDocument Format supported by many other tech firms, the company has committed to bridging the two technologies.
