Plaxo‘s privacy policies are changing. According to a notice on their site, their privacy policy will be changing on October 6. They explain: Just as today we allow folks to sign up and sign in to Plaxo using identities from external websites, later this year we will allow you to sign up or sign in…
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Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles
Rachel Metz of Associated Press reports that Amazon.com is offering free replacement books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels “1984” and “Animal Farm” were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July. The deletion led to a class-action lawsuit started by one student who was using the book for…
Court orders Google to reveal critics’ names
As a follow-up on a story previously discussed, Ben Fox reports: A resort developer has obtained a court order requiring Google Inc. to help uncover the identities of anonymous contributors to an online newspaper that posted articles linking him to government corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Developer Cem Kinay of Miami accuses TCI…
Pitney Bowes pays $2.9M to settle ‘Blast Fax’ lawsuit
When you buy a client list as part of buyng a firm’s assets, do you have an established business relationship with the clients that allows you to fax them? The issue just cost Pitney Bowes $2.9M to settle…. Greg Land of the Fulton County Daily Report reports: Business service and supply giant Pitney Bowes has…