As though in defiance of current economic trends, Amazon delivered Q2 earnings that gave investors little to complain about. Net income increased 102 percent to $158 million, compared with net income of $78 million in the year-ago quarter. Net sales, or revenue, jumped 41 percent to $4.06 billion in Q2, compared with $2.89 billion for […]

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While the beta testing seems never to end at Google — Gmail is still in beta well past age 4 — the world’s largest search engine and advertising machine has released to the public a new knowledge base called “Knol.” A “knol,” according to Google, is a unit of knowledge. More specifically, Google says Knols […]

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Proponents of the beleaguered Child Online Protection Act suffered yet another blow Tuesday when a federal appeals court deemed the law unconstitutional once again. The 1998 law, known as “COPA,” aims to keep children from viewing pornographic materials on the Internet by making it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access […]

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