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Are SOPA/PIPA Dead?… A Shocking Turn of Events – A SPN Exclusive Article

Last November I wrote an article titled The Advent of Internet Censorship in America . To recap: “The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R.3261, was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011 by Representative Lamar Smith [R-TX] and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The aim of the bill is to help U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders fight online transmission of restricted intellectual property.” (Source: Wikipedia) Opponents of the bill says it goes too far and threatens to shut down or censor legitimate websites that might inadvertently link to or display such content. Anyway, when I wrote that article back in November, the bill was sitting in the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet. It had yet to be introduced to the floor for a vote.

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Apple co-founder wishes iPhones were like Androids

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has admitted his Android-powered smartphone out muscles his iPhone much of the time. “My primary phone is the iPhone,” Wozniak said. “I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.” Though still a big fan of the iPhone, Wozniak argues Android has a better built-in navigation, and that voice commands work better on the Google-made operating system than its Cupertino counterpart. “I used to ask Siri, ‘What are the five biggest lakes in California?’ and it would come back with the answer,” he said. “Now it just misses. It gives me real estate listing. I used to ask, ‘What are the prime numbers greater than 87?’ and it would answer.

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Zappos suffers major data breach

In what’s seen as the first major cyber-attack of 2012, Amazon-owned online retailer Zappos has fallen victim to a data breach affecting as many as 24 million users. “We were recently the victim of a cyber-attack by a criminal who gained access to parts our internal network and systems through one of our servers in Kentucky,” said Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh in an email to employees. It is believed that the hacker was able to access customer names, email addresses, billing and postal addresses, phone numbers, as well as cryptographically scrambled passwords and the last four digits of customers’ credit card numbers. To combat customer data vulnerability the company said it expired and reset customers’ passwords and would be sending an email with further instructions to all 24 million of its customers. The full nature of the hacking incident is yet to be determined, but in the meantime the Zappos website is currently “not accepting international traffic ,” according to a notice on the site. The company is cooperating with U.S

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Social Networks and Privacy: Learning From Facebook’s Mistakes

Observers of Internet trends often pronounce that privacy is a fiction and that it is futile to try to reclaim it. Whether that perspective is correct or not does not matter when faced with a Complaint issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The Facebook Complaint and Consent Order recently issued by the FTC provides valuable lessons for how to stay out of the FTC’s crosshairs. Internet attorneys, businesses, consultants and advisors should study what the FTC views as deceptive in order to make necessary adjustments to business plans and operations. In the U.S., there is no federal law that requires a website to have a privacy policy. However, California requires any website that collects personally identifiable information from California residents to have a privacy policy

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Website Legal Compliance – Congress Struggles With Protect IP and SOPA Legislation

Website legal compliance is now under serious consideration by lawmakers in Washington. The U.S. Congress is now considering two proposed bills, which if enacted into law, would provide ground-breaking weapons for law enforcement and content owners to enforce intellectual property rights. If you’re a content owner that provides content on the Internet, you have an important stake in the current legislative process. The competing bills currently under consideration – The Protect IP Act (Protect IP) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) – are both aimed at websites that are focused on infringing the intellectual property rights of content owners. What’s both creative and controversial about these proposed laws from a website legal compliance perspective is the enforcement mechanism – shutting down the offending websites regardless of whether they’re U.S. based or foreign based websites. The typical offenders that are the targets of Protect IP and SOPA are websites that pirate and illegally stream movies, TV shows, and music. However, if you’re a content owner with valuable content that may be the target of infringers, these proposed statutes may provide important legal remedies for you to protect your intellectual property

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Apple confirms as much as it wants for next event

“Let’s talk iPhone.” It’s Apple’s latest chat-up line for tech bloggers, fan boys or those simply waiting to see how an Apple event works in the post-Jobsian era. It’s also the tagline on an invitation sent out en masse to tech journalists inviting them to an iPhone event 4 October at the company’s Cupertino, California, HQ. First reported via sources close to the event by All Things Digital , the October event has long been rumoured to be the official launch pad for the iPhone 5, Apple’s latest entry in the game-changing smartphone line. The event, scheduled to commence at 10am Pacific Time, should see newly crowned king of Cupertino Tim Cook making the keynote address. Cook formerly served under Jobs for 13 years, four as chief operating officer for Apple. He also took up the reins during Jobs’ health crises in 2004 and 2009. Likely topics of the keynote will include the release data and specifications of the iPhone 5, the rollout of iOS 5, the smartphone’s operating system, as well as details of the company’s other products sure to delight fans.

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Internet Marketers – Proposed Legislation Wants to Appoint You as Tax Collector

Proposed legislation in the U.S. Congress, if passed, will essentially make online merchants tax collectors, forcing them to collect sales taxes for all purchases. This is the latest attempt by cash-strapped states to collect sales tax revenues from online sales. The Main Street Fairness Act (MSFA), introduced by Senator Dick Durban (D-IL), would change the current law which requires merchants to collect sales tax only when the merchant has a physical presence in the state. The effect of MSFA on online merchants, particularly small merchants, could be huge. The Current Sales Tax War The general rule regarding sales taxes is that merchants are required to collect sales taxes on the sale of tangible property to purchasers located within the merchant’s state. For sales to purchasers outside the merchant’s state, the merchant is required to collect sales taxes only for sales into a state where the merchant has a “nexus”, meaning a physical presence.

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Why Are 95% Of Internet Marketers Unsuccessful?

It’s an unnerving fact, but of all potential internet marketing wannabees, only 5% go on to sell products and make a success of their ventures. There is a huge drop-out rate with the vast majority failing to make it even past the first hurdle. Why do so many people give up before they’ve barely begun? These figures are in stark contrast to those published for more traditional business start-ups. According to statistics published by the Small Business Administration (SBA), seven out of ten new employer establishments survive at least two years and 51 percent survive at least five years. This is a far cry from the previous long-held belief that 50 percent of businesses fail in the first year and 95 percent fail within five years. So why the big difference?

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The Low-Down on Local Places Listings

Though the World-wide-web is often praised as the foundation for globalization, and links us across countries and continents, new developments have shown the relevance of emphasizing the local places listings and other local aspects of internet marketing. How to SEO is Over. Local Places Listings are in. Facebook Check-in, the rise of Foursquare and Yelp, and the popularity of Google Places listings and Google Maps establish this point. There are several main aspects to your local business listings: local directories and your business address; the content of your local listing and customer reviews. Let us look at each of these in greater detail.

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Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Law to Collect Taxes from Ecommerce Retailers

Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Wednesday the online sales tax bill to end California’s existing redevelopment program and to make online retailers collect sales taxes. Under the new online sales tax law, AB 28 1x, online retailers without a brick-and-mortar presence in California would have to collect the same taxes as physical stores.

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