Yahoo Sued By American Airlines

Poor Yahoo.  As we all know, the company's facing quite a few problems - a shrinking stock price, a skeptical Department of Justice, and so on - and now it's been made the defendant in a trademark infringement case filed by American Airlines.

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eBay To Implement Global Ban On Ivory Sales

eBay has announced it will institute a global ban on the sale of all types of ivory that will go into effect January 1, 2009.The move comes after an investigative report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) that found more than 70 percent of all endangered species products listed for sale on the Internet occur in the United States.

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RSS Adoption Not Reaching The Levels It Should

RSS feeds are not catching on like some of us thought they would. New data from Forrester Research indicates that only the slim minority of consumers are using it, and furthermore, a great deal of those who don't have no intention of doing so in the future. When Forrester asked if people currently use an RSS feed:

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Microsoft Patents Live Audio Censoring

Microsoft filed a patent application several years ago for the censoring of real-time audio streams, and that patent has now been granted. In other words, Microsoft has patented live "bleeping". The patent abstract says:

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