Jul 1

Older Internet users may remember the battles over the commercialization of the web in the early 1990s, when the first Mosaic browser was introduced. Back then, pioneering adopters passionately condemned the first web advertisers and tried to bring down their sites with “flaming” attacks. The fight was lost as consumers voted for free information supported [...]

Jul 1

China’s latest Internet controls have been assailed by rights advocates and Washington, and yet the real challenge to its “Green Dam” plan may be the nation’s own computer market,  Computer Shops an anarchic digital bazaar.Starting from Wednesday, the government has ordered that personal computers sold in China must leave manufacturers with Green Dam filter software [...]

Jun 30

Cable television and broadband provider Comcast launched a high-speed wireless data service in Portland, Monday, with plans to bring the service to Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia by the end of 2009. The service, called Comcast High-Speed 2go, will give the cable operator another tool in its competition with large telecom vendors such as Verizon and [...]

Jun 30

Desperate states are passing laws to slap local sales taxes Amazon affiliates, Amazon(AMZN) is responding by cutting those affiliates off to avoid the taxes. Even more troubling, California is threatening to finally impose the standard 10% sales tax on all Internet purchases, effectively leveling the playing field and taking away a key competitive advantage for [...]

Jun 30

Internet Business In starting my own home based internet business, I get A LOT of raised eyebrows and dubious looks. You know the look I’m talking about, the one that says, “ Are you crazy? Don’t you know all those network businesses are all pyramids or scams?
The “reverse funnel” is a program that is designed [...]

Jun 30

Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) introduced on June 25 the “Access To Repair Parts Act,” H.R. 3059, Computer Shops in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced identical legislation in the Senate, S.1368.
The “Access to Repair Parts Act” would guarantee the availability of aftermarket automotive collision replacement parts. The “Access to Repair [...]

Jun 29

Running a membership site has exploded in popularity as an Internet business model. Online business owners are finally recognizing what the “early adopters” discovered years ago: membership sites can be extremely profitable, have a low startup cost, Internet Business and can actually be fun to run.

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Jun 27

The Australian Government has officially gone drunk with power. Not content to heavily butcher and/or outright ban videogames that don’t conform to their horribly outdated MA15+ age rating cap, the Australian authorities are now going as far as to censor the Internet, invoking an almost twenty-year-old clause to get away with blocking access to any [...]

Jun 26

The Obama administration has lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government over its plan to require that all computers sold in China after July 1 come with software that blocks access to certain Internet websites. U.S. officials say the software, ostensibly designed to protect children from Internet pornography, has broader censorship capability.
China’s Ministry of [...]

Jun 26

Iran’s political turmoil has raised some intriguing business questions: How would a shift to a less anti-West regime affect U.S.-Iran trade? And how much trade does the United States already do with the scofflaw regime?
Officially, only a limited number of goods can be exported from the United States to Iran, thanks to the varying sanctions [...]