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At the end of 2008, it was announced that Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports was acquiring Consumerist.com from Nick Denton's Gawker…
In 2008, an obviously important election year, 30 bills were introduced to Congress aimed at protecting children online; all of them failed. This was after years of attempts, at least one of which was overturned by the Supreme Court, to pass similar legislation, some of which sought to make it illegal for adults even to pretend to be underage in pornographic material.
Netflix, the movie rental service that recently hit a milestone of 10 million subscribers is now making deals with movie sites to give users quick access to their Netflix queues from these places.
Due to the recession, the idea of a 0.3 percent drop sounds like nothing at all; plunges of 5, 10, and 20 percent are the norm now. Still, Compete has released its description of the search market in January, and the report's sure to turn a few heads with that exact figure.
Google announced today that Google Map Maker is now available in 27 languages with more to come. They can't translate the interface itself into every language, so they have opened up Map Maker in "Google in Your Language" so users can translate it into their preferred language. The current available languages include: * Bengali * Gujarati * Brazilian * Portugese
Facebook has had quite a week. If it is true that there is no such thing as bad publicity then this week has been a windfall for the social networking giant. I have even read some conspiracy theorists who believe that the whole terms of service ‘incident’ was intended. I’m not sure I can go there but to be honest it does make some sense.
