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A judge in Illinois has rejected a petition by e360 Insight to force the closure of the Internet domain of antispam company Spamhaus. Last month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ordered Spamhaus to pay e360 Insight $11.7 million in damages for blacklisting the company, which keeps users of Spamhaus’s antispam […]

Microsoft has announced two partners in its book scanning project, which will compete with Google’s controversial Book Search program.   Cornell University will allow Microsoft to scan its library collection, and Kirtas Technologies will provide high-speed hardware for the scanning. Unlike Google’s program, Microsoft’s Windows Live Book Search will only scan books in the public […]

A study conducted by researchers at Stanford University indicates considerable and rising rates of Internet addiction among U.S. users.   The study, which asked more than 2,500 people about their Web habits, found that almost 14 percent said it was difficult to be offline for more than a few days. Eight percent said they use […]

[Of course, Project Gutenberg, perhaps the largest literacy project, was not contacted about this.]     The Literacy Project, a portal to connect literacy organizations around the world, was announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany. It was created in a collaboration among Google, the Frankfurt Book Fair literacy campaign, and UNESCO’s Institute for […]

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