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  • US major source of Internet drug sales

    The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) reported that there has been an increase in dealers using cyberspace to market narcotics and mind-altering drugs illegal in most countries. Its annual report says Internet pharmacies are shipping prescription-only drugs across the globe.

  • Search engines face drug test

    A major U.S. pharmacy trade group is pressuring Web-based search engines to ban advertisements from unlicensed drug dealers, highlighting growing pains for the Net's newest marketing powerhouses.

  • Patient tracking system unveiled to solve drug errors

    Australian citizens will be assigned a unique identifying number to help healthcare providers protect their patients from accidentally being given the wrong treatment.

  • The Bank of Dell is now open

    With his Dell Computer Corp. already one of the Internet's phenomenal success stories, Dell Chairman and Chief Executive Michael S. Dell is increasingly putting his own money into a stream of Internet and electronic-commerce startups.

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  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

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