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22-03-2012 18:46 NetChoice a coalition that includes big internet companies from Facebook to eBay released a list of the ten worst proposed internet regulations across the country. The list contains laws pertaining to everything from online dating to advertizing revenues. Check out some of our highlights. Twitter: twitter.com http://www.facebook.com
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Internet service providers told communications regulators on Thursday that they will do more to alert customers whose computers have been taken over by criminal hackers' robot networks, or botnets, and help them get rid of the malicious software.
Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O), CenturyLink (CTL.N) and some small Internet service providers, or ISPs, already contact customers whose computers have software surreptitiously installed so they are roped into botnets, a collection of affected computers.
A single hacker can remotely control thousands of machines, using them to send spam aimed at stealing personal or financial data.
Policymakers are eager to get industry more involved in policing botnets and preventing security problems from slowing the growth of the Internet market, worth about $8 trillion a year.
But most ISPs do not warn customers whose computers are in botnets because the effort is expensive and some customers may regard the monitoring as a violation of their privacy.
Following a firm push from the Federal Communications Commission, eight large ISPs in an industry working group told the FCC on Thursday that they would not only work to detect botnets on their networks, but would also help affected customers find resources to clean up their computers.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the working group had identified "smart, practical, voluntary solutions that are consistent with these principles, will materially improve our cybersecurity."
The companies announced two other steps on Thursday.
They also said they would implement a more secure version of the website naming system, called DNSSEC, to prevent thieves from posing as a bank, for example, by using a similar domain name to steal money from its customers.
They also pledged to take steps to ensure that Web traffic goes through the shortest and most reliable routes. The goal would be to prevent a repeat of a 2010 incident in which some 15 percent of Internet traffic was diverted through Chinese servers for about 18 minutes.
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DALLAS, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Business owners in Dallas may be able to take advantage of free SEO Consulting to help improve their Internet presence. Teksapiens LLC, a leading Dallas SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and web design firm, announced today that it was offering free SEO consulting to businesses who signed up at DallasBestSEO.com. This provides Dallas businesses a direct push to outperform the rest of the businesses in the nation when it comes to profitability ratios. Better online visibility means more customers, therefore more revenue. SEO consulting is not new. However, the way Teksapiens LLC does it certainly is. Dallas SEO companies are among the best in the world and Teksapiens LLC is the leader among them.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fenwick & West LLP, one of the nation's preeminent law firms providing comprehensive legal services to high technology and life science clients, today released its 2011 Seed Financing Survey.
The survey covers 56 internet/digital media and software companies that raised seed financing primarily in the Silicon Valley or Seattle markets in 2011. For purposes of the survey, a "seed financing" is the first round of financing of a company in which it raised between $250,000 and $2.5 million and is led by a professional investor.
"This is our second annual Seed Financing Survey. We began publishing the survey last year in response to the increased amount and importance of seed investment in the entrepreneurial community. This second survey finds that valuations of seed equity financings in the internet/digital media and software industries have continued to increase, from an average of $3.2 million in 2010 to $3.8 million in 2011, and discusses the continued growth and diversity of funding sources for seed investments," said Barry Kramer, co-author of the survey and a partner in the Fenwick & West Startup Group.
Some of the results of the survey are as follows:
"These results show a strong, generally entrepreneur-friendly environment for seed stage investments in the internet/digital media and software industries," said Steve Levine, also a co-author of the survey and a partner in the Fenwick & West Startup Group. "The relatively small amount of money required to bring these companies to market makes this area an appealing investment area."
Complete results of the survey are available at http://www.fenwick.com/seedsurvey.
About Fenwick & WestEstablished in 1972, Fenwick & West LLP is one of the nation's preeminent law firms with extensive expertise in venture capital, public offerings and other corporate finance, joint ventures, M&A and strategic relationships, intellectual property, litigation and dispute resolution, taxation, antitrust and employment and labor law.
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Barry J. Kramer Fenwick & West LLP Phone: 650.335.7278 Email: bkramer@fenwick.com
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New digital payment technologies seem to be popping up every week and giving us alternative ways to pay - without using cash or even a credit or debit card.
From the recently launched Barclays Pingit phone app to Google Wallet and Near Field Communication-enabled smartphones, it remains to be seen which technologies will become mainstream.
But in the perpetually web-connected world of 2012 it certainly does look like coins and notes could be going the way of the dodo.
Here's a look at the ever-growing world of digital payment, which technologies you can already use and which ones are likely to be replacing your wallet in the not too distant future.
Send cash to a phone number
Last month, Barclays launched Pingit, a unique way of sending money to a mobile phone number. Just as Paypal allows you to send money safely and securely to an email address, Pingit does the same for mobile phone numbers.
Pingit comes as a free-to-use application for your iPhone, Android or Blackberry smartphone and allows you to send up to 300 a day to anyone with a phone number and a UK bank account.
You input the amount you want to transfer and the phone number of the recipient. They then receive a text message telling them about the payment and asking you to register with the service to receive payment. If they don't register
within 24 hours, the transaction is cancelled.
Only Barclays current account holders are able to send payments at the moment, as the app is registered against their currents account with the bank, but anyone can receive payments from Pingit.
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