Email Safe From Government Searches

For supporters of the Fourth Amendment Monday was a good day. In a landmark ruling the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that the government must have a search warrant before it can covertly seize and search emails stored by email service providers.

Meredith Gets Hold Of Healia

Healia, a health search engine, has been acquired by Meredith, a media and marketing company.  Little else is known about the deal, though both parties seem to have gone out of their way to note that no alarming changes will take place.

GMail Thinks My Google Alerts Are Spam

I didn't notice when I stopped receiving my Google Alerts. It's one of those things you pass over until one day you're all "why didn't I get something on this?" I assumed my subscription had run out and I'd have to set them up again – which I found to be very annoying.

Online Sales Slow Down

New statistics have indicated that online sales are slowing, and this has worried some people.  Yet “slow growth” is still growth, and - some projections accompanied those stats - even if 25 percent per year (in 2004) was great, nine percent (in 2010) won’t be too shabby.