Wednesday, 29 February 2012

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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- February 29, 2012

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Microsoft Opens Windows 8 Sneak Preview to the Masses
Google to EU: Delay? No Way!
Online Medical Resources: The Doctor Is Always In
Clementine's No Peach, but It Is a Pretty Sweet Music Player
Google+ Has Trouble Snagging Eyeballs, Report Claims

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Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft Opens Windows 8 Sneak Preview to the Masses
Microsoft launched its Windows 8 Consumer Preview at the Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona on Wednesday. The OS features a user interface
similar to the one found on the Windows Phone mobile OS. It was designed
to work on mobile devices, desktop PCs and all-in-one devices.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74533.html

Google to EU: Delay? No Way!
Google on Tuesday rebuffed a request by a European Union privacy body to
delay implementation of changes in the search giant's privacy policies
set to take effect on March 1. "[W]e have notified over 350 million
authenticated Google users and provided highly visible notifications on
our homepage and in search results for our non-authenticated users,"
said Google's Peter Fleischer.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74531.html

Online Medical Resources: The Doctor Is Always In
Online medical resources are improving healthcare, access to information
and communication between patients and physicians. Patients -- and even
doctors -- who want more information about a health topic are more
likely to turn to the Web than any other source, and that trend is only
increasing.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74457.html

Clementine's No Peach, but It Is a Pretty Sweet Music Player
The Clementine Music Player is an up and coming application that could
replace your default music app. It is a close cousin to Amarok with just
enough of its own personality to make it stand apart from the crowd. On
any computing platform today, users have ample choices of music players.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74523.html

Google+ Has Trouble Snagging Eyeballs, Report Claims
New figures from comScore echo what many Google+ critics have been
saying for the past few months. Google+ seems to be good at signing up
users for its network, in large part due to its strategy of integrating
its other products to the network. However, these users, which now
number 90 million, don't stick around to actually use the network,
according to the data.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74528.html

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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- February 28, 2012

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Headline Scan
Samsung's Next Galaxy Swings Into View
Are Security Vendors Living in Glass Houses?
DM1: Drum Machines May Have No Soul, but This One Has Brains
41-Megapixel PureView Leaves Nokia's Smartphone Strategy Muddy
Apple Shoves Motorola Patent Suit Into Limbo

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Today's Story Highlights

Samsung's Next Galaxy Swings Into View
Samsung's Galaxy S III Android smartphone will hit shelves with a super-
fast processor, a ceramic case and 4G LTE compatibility, according to a
recent report. The Android smartphone will run on Ice Cream Sandwich and
come with a 1.5GHz quad-core Samsung Exynos processor, the report
states.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74524.html

Are Security Vendors Living in Glass Houses?
What would happen if you paid taxes or protection money but didn't get
protected because your protectors themselves were getting clobbered?
Worse still, what if they didn't tell you they had been compromised and
that you might not be safe? That situation played out recently after yet
another company suffered a system breach and kept largely silent on the
matter.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74519.html

DM1: Drum Machines May Have No Soul, but This One Has Brains
"Drum machine." For some musicians and music lovers, the words alone can
cause utter and complete revulsion. Why, they say, should such an
abomination be allowed to exist? These glorified metronomes sound tinny,
require no coordination, cheapen the art of percussion and in general
have no soul or humanity about them -- so the argument goes.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74514.html

41-Megapixel PureView Leaves Nokia's Smartphone Strategy Muddy
Nokia, battered by Apple's iPhone and Google's Android operating system,
Monday introduced the 808 PureView. The new smartphone, which boasts a
41-megapixel digital camera, left some observers stunned and others just
yawning. Unveiled during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain,
the 808 PureView costs $602 before carrier subsidy.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74516.html

Apple Shoves Motorola Patent Suit Into Limbo
Germany's Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court decided on Monday to
temporarily suspend enforcement of a ban barring sales of Apple's iOS
devices in that country. The case at hand is a patent suit brought by
Motorola Mobility against Apple. The suit came after Cupertino changed
the terms of its offer to license Motorola's technology.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74518.html

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Monday, 27 February 2012

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Monday -- February 27, 2012

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Headline Scan
WikiLeaks Splays Stratfor Wide Open
HTC Touts the Power of One
White House Puts Privacy Under Bright, Hot Lights
The Future of Movies and Reality TV
Ubuntu's Bold Mobile Gambit
Mountain Lion Messages: A Few Crossed Wires, Lots of Potential
Social Network Users Dumping Friends and Locking Doors

Podcast
The Over/Under on Cloud Security (36:24 minutes)
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four walls? Or can security actually be better in the cloud, in the same
way a safe deposit box may be a safer place to store valuables than
one's own home?
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Today's Story Highlights

WikiLeaks Splays Stratfor Wide Open
WikiLeaks on Monday released the first 200 of what it says are 5 million
emails stolen from global geopolitical analyst firm Stratfor. The
emails, written between July 2004 and late December 2011, reveal
Stratfor's web of informers, its payoff structure, payment laundering
techniques and psychological methods, WikiLeaks stated. Stratfor
denounced the act as a deplorable, unfortunate and illegal breach of
privacy.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74517.html

HTC Touts the Power of One
HTC revealed a new line of smartphones at Barcelona's Mobile World
Congress Sunday, showcasing handsets designed to emphasize audio and
sleek, efficient displays. The line will include three handsets under
the collective HTC One series: the One X, One V and One S. All will run
on Android Ice Cream Sandwich and will come with 25 GB of cloud storage
space courtesy of Dropbox.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74513.html

White House Puts Privacy Under Bright, Hot Lights
Internet privacy appeared on the big stage last week when the Obama
administration unveiled its plans on the subject, which included a bill
of rights for consumer privacy. The President's privacy framework evoked
reactions from stakeholders ranging from enthusiastic to guardedly
optimistic.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74512.html

The Future of Movies and Reality TV
"Act of Valor" just opened. An amazing combination of technology made
the creation of this movie possible on an incredibly low budget, and
much of this technology is available to you. In fact, the movie was
created mostly with tools you could have in your home. Also last week,
Google leaked its augmented-reality glasses. Weaving these two events
together gives us a glimpse of the future of reality movies and TV.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74501.html

Ubuntu's Bold Mobile Gambit
After Canonical's Tuesday debut of Ubuntu for Android, it soon became
clear that the news had struck some kind of chord with observers far and
wide, prompting nothing less than a large-scale reconsideration of the
current state of computing. How do we compute today? How might that get
better in the coming years? What role should be played by all these
myriad devices we have on hand?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74510.html

Mountain Lion Messages: A Few Crossed Wires, Lots of Potential
The new Messages app for the upcoming release of OS X Mountain Lion --
that's right, it's "OS X" without the old "Mac" in front of it now -- is
in beta and available for download. Unlike some companies, Apple tends
not to release beta software, but it occasionally does. Of course, it
took me all of six seconds to decide to give it a whirl.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74505.html

Social Network Users Dumping Friends and Locking Doors
Users of social networks, especially women and younger members, are
managing their accounts better in recent years, Pew Research has found.
About two-thirds of Internet users belong to social networking sites,
and metrics for profile management have improved, Pew said. For one
thing, users are cleaning house more. Overall, 63 percent of social
networking site users have deleted friends, up from 56 percent in 2009.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74509.html

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Friday, 24 February 2012

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Friday -- February 24, 2012

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Headline Scan
Microsoft Gives Devs a Glance at Visual Studio 11
Kansas City May Become Epicenter of Google's Big TV Disruption
ACTA Action, Part 2
PrinterShare Mobile Print Premium May Please Mobile Enterprise Crowd
Mozilla Stocks the Shelves for an App Store Grand Opening

Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft Gives Devs a Glance at Visual Studio 11
Microsoft will release a beta of Visual Studio 11 on Feb. 29, the same
day it releases a preview version of its Windows 8 operating system. VS
11 is an integrated development environment spanning the entire software
creation lifecycle from architecture to code deployment, testing and
validation. It adds support for Windows 8 and Microsoft's Windows Azure
cloud platform.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74506.html

Kansas City May Become Epicenter of Google's Big TV Disruption
Speculation that Google is going to disrupt yet another industry -- this
time cable television -- is circulating, prompted by an application the
search engine giant filed with the Missouri Public Service Commission,
seeking a franchise to provide video service in Kansas City, Mo. A
similar application was filed in Kansas City, Kan.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74496.html

ACTA Action, Part 2
The U.S. Congress buried the Stop Online Piracy Act and its cousin, the
Protect IP Act, following a wave of public protest earlier this year.
With those pieces of legislation effectively taken off the table, the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has gained attention. A
slew of countries, including the U.S., have signed the agreement, but
skepticism rages on.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74500.html

PrinterShare Mobile Print Premium May Please Mobile Enterprise Crowd
Digital media appear to have created more paper swirling around us,
rather than less. If you've been holding out for the paperless dream,
forget it. Give up now, because there's currently a preponderance of
smartphone apps that allow you to print directly from your Android
device to any computer, near or far.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74483.html

Mozilla Stocks the Shelves for an App Store Grand Opening
The Mozilla Foundation will begin accepting developer submissions for
its own app market at the Mobile World Congress, which will be held in
Barcelona next week. The Mozilla Marketplace will let devs distribute
and monetize their apps. It will also be the sole repository for cross-
platform apps and Firefox extensions.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74499.html

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Thursday, 23 February 2012

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Thursday -- February 23, 2012

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Headline Scan
White House Looks to Nail Down Online Privacy Regulations
Tube Tweeting: How to Use Twitter When Watching TV
Why the World Is Desperately Seeking Linux Talent
OS X Mountain Lion: 7 Out of 10 Ain't Bad
Google Sees a Bright Future in Smart Shades

Today's Story Highlights

White House Looks to Nail Down Online Privacy Regulations
Undeterred by its battle to convince Congress to pass the cybersecurity
legislation it proposed last May, the White House on Thursday unveiled a
proposal for an online consumer privacy bill of rights. This is part of
a blueprint to improve consumer privacy protection in the United States.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74494.html

Tube Tweeting: How to Use Twitter When Watching TV
If you think of some of the more recent significant developments in
television viewing, you'll probably come up with a list that includes
the digital video recorder, which provides easy time-shifting without
lossy tape; the flat-screen high-definition television, which provides
high-quality images as well as space-saving and eco-advantages over the
bulky old cathode ray tube; and rampant cord-cutting.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74491.html

Why the World Is Desperately Seeking Linux Talent
A recent study from The Linux Foundation has found that Linux talent is
a hot commodity among many hiring companies. The conclusions made sense
to many in the Linux blogosphere. "Linux and open source are becoming
strategic investments in many companies and have been for years," said
Chris Travers of the LedgerSMB project. Others, however, took issue with
the study's methodology.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74489.html

OS X Mountain Lion: 7 Out of 10 Ain't Bad
Not long after I expressed my irritation and desire for a converged iOS
and Mac OS X experience, Apple announced its OS X Mountain Lion sneak
peek. I claim no influence over Apple, of course, just the fact that OS
X Mountain Lion is bridging the rift between iOS and Mac OS X. Of the 10
major new sneak-peek features revealed by Apple, seven are freaking
awesome.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74488.html

Google Sees a Bright Future in Smart Shades
Reports that Google is working on special glasses that will stream
information to a display in one lens in real time have once again
surfaced. The glasses will apparently hit retail shelves by the end of
the year. They will be priced in about the same ballpark as new
smartphones, meaning they'll likely fall into the $250 to $600 price
range. The glasses will reportedly run on Android.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74486.html

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Wednesday, 22 February 2012

ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter

ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter: Wednesday -- February 22, 2012

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This Week's Top News Headlines From the E-Commerce Times

Kindle Fire Makes Amazon Appstore Cozy for Devs
(Posted 22-Feb-12)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74485.html

Can the Nook Find Its Niche?
(Posted 21-Feb-12)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74476.html

Yelp Steps Out on IPO High Wire With Cautious Pricing
(Posted 20-Feb-12)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74464.html

Banks in the Crosshairs: 8 Ways Cybercriminals Outfox Strong Security
Controls
(Posted 18-Feb-12)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74461.html

Turbulent Waters Ahead for Amazon?
(Posted 17-Feb-12)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74453.html

European Court Rejects Plea to Turn Social Nets Into Copyright Police
(Posted 16-Feb-12)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74451.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

Sony Hunts for Hardcore Gamers With New Vita Handheld
(Posted 22-Feb-12)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74481.html

Is Anonymous Plotting a Power Play?
(Posted 21-Feb-12)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74478.html

Cisco Chews Up the Scenery in the Interoperability Drama
(Posted 20-Feb-12)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74452.html

Apple Wanders Into Mountain Lion Territory
(Posted 18-Feb-12)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74459.html

Google Caught With Hand In Safari's Cookie Jar
(Posted 17-Feb-12)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74458.html

Widening Your WiFi Network's Range
(Posted 16-Feb-12)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74433.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

Think Bigger
(Posted 22-Feb-12)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/74471.html

Avaya Gives Sneak Peak of Upcoming Healthcare Apps
(Posted 21-Feb-12)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/74472.html

New CRM Offerings Up the Social Media Ante
(Posted 20-Feb-12)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/74468.html

Sage Uncomplicates USciences' Constituent Relationship System
(Posted 17-Feb-12)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/74442.html

Growing Into Social CRM
(Posted 16-Feb-12)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/74438.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

WordGrinder: Good, Old-Fashioned Text Editing Power
(Posted 22-Feb-12)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/74470.html

The New Face of Ubuntu
(Posted 21-Feb-12)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/74460.html

Is Windows 8 a Linux Copycat?
(Posted 20-Feb-12)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/74465.html

Mobile Nirvana: Syncing Smartphones, Tablets and PCs
(Posted 17-Feb-12)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/74450.html

Sabayon Succumbs to Cinnamon's Irresistible Allure
(Posted 16-Feb-12)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/74439.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From MacNewsWorld

Will Microsoft Open a Branch Office in iPad Land?
(Posted 22-Feb-12)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/74482.html

GroupShot Magically Melds Photos to Get the Perfect Pic
(Posted 21-Feb-12)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/74467.html

Apple's and Motorola's Slip-Slidey Patent Scrap
(Posted 20-Feb-12)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/74455.html

iPad Rumble in China: Apple Slaps Amazon, Grapples With Proview
(Posted 17-Feb-12)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/74447.html

The Hoarders Will Hate the Next MacBook Pros
(Posted 16-Feb-12)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/74437.html

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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- February 22, 2012

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Headline Scan
Sony Hunts for Hardcore Gamers With New Vita Handheld
When in the Cloud, Trust - but Verify
Will Microsoft Open a Branch Office in iPad Land?
WordGrinder: Good, Old-Fashioned Text Editing Power
Is Anonymous Plotting a Power Play?

Today's Story Highlights

Sony Hunts for Hardcore Gamers With New Vita Handheld
Sony officially launched its PlayStation Vita handheld gaming console in
the United States on Wednesday, a week after it was made available
online in a premium bundle. The WiFi-only version of the console is
available for $250; the 3G/WiFi version goes for $300. Several games
have been made available, and Sony on Wednesday added apps for Netflix,
Flickr and LiveTweet to the mix. The apps are available at no charge.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74481.html

When in the Cloud, Trust - but Verify
Quite a lot has been written about the importance of due diligence in a
cloud environment. Sometimes the importance of security and compliance-
related vetting in the cloud is easy to justify, like when you're
evaluating an off-premises public cloud hosted at a new service
provider. Other times, executives might take some convincing.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74475.html

Will Microsoft Open a Branch Office in iPad Land?
A sighting in the wild of Microsoft Office for the iPad set tongues
wagging Tuesday, even as the Redmond crew denied the existence of the
app. The software's interface contained elements of Microsoft's only app
for the iPad, OneNote, and its Metro interface found in the company's
mobile operating system Windows Phone 7 and its upcoming Windows 8 OS.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74482.html

WordGrinder: Good, Old-Fashioned Text Editing Power
If you spend endless hours at a keyboard crunching words, avoiding
distractions is essential. Sometimes the worst offender in causing
distractions comes from all the bells and whistles in the word processor
itself. That is where WordGrinder comes to the rescue. In today's Linux
world of GUI-filled desktops, using a text editor that runs within a
terminal window may seem like a big step backward.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74470.html

Is Anonymous Plotting a Power Play?
The United States National Security Agency has cautioned that the
Anonymous hacker community might be able to cause a limited power outage
through a cyberattack. Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, has
warned of the potential attack during meetings at the White House and in
other private sessions.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74478.html

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Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- February 21, 2012

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Microsoft Calls Google a Cookie Monster
DOT Asks Carmakers to Help Curb Distracted Driving
The Great Google Cookie Caper
Avaya Gives Sneak Peak of Upcoming Healthcare Apps
GroupShot Magically Melds Photos to Get the Perfect Pic
The New Face of Ubuntu
Is Windows 8 a Linux Copycat?
Apple's and Motorola's Slip-Slidey Patent Scrap
Anonymous Acts Out Over ACTA

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Microsoft Calls Google a Cookie Monster
Google is tracking users of the Internet Explorer Web browser without
their knowledge, Microsoft has asserted. After news emerged last week
that Google had bypassed the privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser,
Microsoft researchers began looking into whether the search giant was
also playing fast and loose with IE's settings.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74474.html

DOT Asks Carmakers to Help Curb Distracted Driving
The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed guidelines that
advise automakers to disable certain in-vehicle electronic features. The
DOT wants to crack down on any action that requires drivers to give the
task more than a two-second single glance, or 20 seconds of total glance
time, to control.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74473.html

The Great Google Cookie Caper
Google's privacy practices came under fire again last week for
undermining the privacy practices of someone else. Namely, Apple. Apple
is one of the few browser makers that turns off by default a website's
ability to push third-party cookies to a Web surfer. Cookies can perform
a valuable service to users.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74469.html

Avaya Gives Sneak Peak of Upcoming Healthcare Apps
Avaya has provided a sneak preview of several healthcare IT-based mobile
applications it will be rolling out later this year. These include Avaya
Mobile Activity Assistant, Avaya Flare Communicator for iPad, and other
collaborative service offerings in telehealth and social media.
Healthcare is one of Avaya's chief verticals, said Sanjeev Gupta,
general manager of Avaya's Healthcare Solutions group.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74472.html

GroupShot Magically Melds Photos to Get the Perfect Pic
As the name suggests, GroupShot is all about creating photos of groups
of people. In my experience, any time you're trying to take a photo of
two or more people, someone is either looking in the wrong direction,
smiling with a smile that implies there's something odd happening in
their bowels, or their eyes are closed.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74467.html

The New Face of Ubuntu
Canonical expects to start rolling out the first phase of Ubuntu's new
heads-up display in the April release of Ubuntu 12.04. But HUD will
supplement Unity, Ubuntu's default desktop interface, rather than fully
replace it. The move to radically change the desktop's default interface
is being made out of necessity, according to Canonical's founder and
former CEO Mark Shuttleworth.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74460.html

Is Windows 8 a Linux Copycat?
Here in the world of technology, there's no denying that developers of
even the most creative new products and ideas "stand on the shoulders of
giants," just as innovators in most other realms do too. New ideas
inspire more new ideas over time, after all, so it's not surprising to
see myriad commonalities and linkages among them. Lately, however, that
notion is being examined a little more closely than usual.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74465.html

Apple's and Motorola's Slip-Slidey Patent Scrap
A regional court in Munich, Germany, has ruled that most of Motorola
Mobility's smartphone products infringe on Apple's slide-to-unlock image
patent. Users of Apple's iOS devices slide a virtual button across the
screen in order to "unlock" the device -- in other words, wake it up and
make it ready to accept other input. It's meant to prevent so-called
pocket dials on the device's touch-sensitive screen.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74455.html

Anonymous Acts Out Over ACTA
Anonymous has struck again -- this time taking down the U.S. Federal
Trade Commission's consumer protection business center website as well
as one touting National Consumer Protection Week. In their place was a
German language video mocking ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
Agreement.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74462.html

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