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    Web sites including Amazon.com and Yahoo.com are allowing people to make donations to the American Red Cross through their Web sites.

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    Amazon.com has stopped allowing users of its "Search Inside the Book" feature to print pages of online books they find via its weeks-old service, after some authors complained that it threatened sales of their works.

  • Amazon unveils search tool

    Amazon.com has quietly launched a test version of its long-awaited search engine, aiming to challenge industry stalwarts Google and Yahoo with new tools to navigate the Web.

  • Senate deals blow to Net neutrality

    A U.S. Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules on Wednesday, dealing a grave setback to companies like eBay, Google and Amazon.com that had made enacting them a top political priority this year.

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    Identity theft is on the increase, to the tune of 10 million victims in the U.S. and $50 billion in costs. Share this list of preventive measures with your end users, friends, and family members to help protect them from this escalating crime.

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    Microsoft hustles to catch up with search engine giants Google and Yahoo, but the beta version of MSN Search still leaves plenty of room for improvement.

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    A few months later than originally planned, Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 3, the widely used open-source Web browser. Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of features that Mozilla says should improve security, ease of use, rendering of Web pages and location of previously visited Web pages.

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    Microsoft's chairman says a digital music store should be offered by the company, which would not aim for significant profit from the feature.

  • Pluck

    Pluck's ease of use, flexibility and tight browser integration make it one of our favourite RSS readers.

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