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Thought it was interesting how playing an online game could turn into something bigger and illegal.

This article is very interesting because it talks about how people are starting to get rid of their landlines and just using their cellphones only for communication.

Looks like Netflix is expanding by offering original content through their service. This will make them even more competitive with cable TV.

"business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce conducted by way of the Internet or other electronic networks. E-commerce originated in a standard for the exchange of documents during the 1948 - 49 Berlin blockade and airlift. Various industries elaborated upon the system until the first general standard was published in 1975. The electronic data interchange (EDI) standard is unambiguous, independent of any particular machine, and flexible enough to handle most simple electronic transactions. In addition to standard forms for business-to-business transactions, e-commerce encompasses much wider activity - for example, the deployment of secure private networks (intranets) for sharing information within a company, as well as selective extensions of a company's intranet to collaborating business networks (extranets). A new form of cooperation known as a virtual company, actually a network of firms, each performing some of the processes needed to manufacture a product or deliver a service, has flourished"

Here is Answer.com information on E-commerce.

every state laws for cyber bullying/ electronic harassment

This article talks about how Cyberbulling is found more on social networking sites like Facebook then anywhere else on the Internet.

I really don't think its in the government best interest to have an open web. In this artilce you can see some of the concerns that people are having with internet cloud.

Interesting article IT network and security news, posted on eweek.com. This breach at Sony made headlines and the article suggests 10 things that we as computer users should be aware of and suggestions of steps we should take.

This is an article by Joel Stein in Time Magazine on why people do not like to use Skype or any other video devices.

77% of tablet owners such as the IPad say that they using these more then their PCs because their slates are more portable.

Good article about the issues related to online sales taxes

Good article about cyberbullying - and it was a 12 year old girl!!!

Important in the ongoing discussion about online sales taxes

Another good article about Internet sales taxes - arguments from both sides.

Good article about cybersecurity

Good article about federal & state regulation of online education

All of us are taking at least this class online and this site actually gives many reasons why it is the best way to further your education. It has many links to help with finding different academic programs, schools, how to read a course descriptions and things like that. I found this site very helpful when I was looking for schools to attend soley online.

This paper talks about how mobile devices are helping businesses and the working class but also explains how it is becoming a intusion. We never really dove to deep on how technology sometimes hurts what we are trying to do in society.

This was a pretty neat paper that I read last week when we were talking about cloud computing and the "what is the future" type of discussions. The $ amounts are unbelievable to me in that over $16 billion was the number given for 2010

"A plan proposed by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called the "Main Street Fairness Act," would create a national law that forces online retailers to start collecting sales taxes on purchases made over the Internet. Amounts will be based on each state's already existing sales tax rates."

Here is an article on how the "Internet Sales Tax Could Go National."