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Don’t Count on Oracle to Keep OpenOffice.org Alive (Katherine Noyes/Computerworld)
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Katherine Noyes / Computerworld:Don’t Count on Oracle to Keep OpenOffice.org Alive — Back in January, the Amsterdam-based consultancy Software Improvement Group warned government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle proved its commitment to treating the software...
Google voice and video – now available for Linux! (Justin Uberti/juberjabber)
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Justin Uberti / juberjabber:Google voice and video – now available for Linux! — Google voice and video chat is now available in Gmail for Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions. As the comments on this blog indicate,...
Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice Issue Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines
2010 Guidelines More Accurately Represent Agencies’ Merger Review Process ...
FTC Staff Opinion: Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital’s Proposed Rx Program Exempt From the Robinson-Patman Act
Program Falls Within the Scope of the Non-Profit Institutions Act ...
FTC Order Protects Consumers in U.S. Market for Eye Care Drug Used in Cataract Surgery
FTC Order Protects Consumers in U.S. Market for Eye Care Drug Used in Cataract Surgery ...
Court Orders Internet Marketers of Acai Berry Weight-Loss Pills and "Colon Cleansers" to Stop Deceptive Advertising and Unfair Billing Practices
Ads Feature Phony Endorsements Attributed to Oprah Winfrey, Rachael Ray ...
FTC Proposes Changes to Update and Improve Credit Reporting Notices
The Federal Trade Commission is proposing revisions to the notices that consumer reporting agencies provide to consumers, and to users and furnishers of credit report information under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). ...
FTC Testifies About Ongoing Efforts to Protect Consumers from Deceptive Debt Relief Scams
The Federal Trade Commission today told the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that the FTC has made it a top priority to protect financially distressed American consumers from deceptive debt relief schemes. ...
FTC to Announce Action Against Internet Marketers of Acai Berry Weight-Loss Pills and "Colon Cleansers"
Millions of consumers who are anxious to lose weight or prevent cancer have seen the ads: “…USE WITH CAUTION! Major weight loss in short periods of time may occur,” or “detoxify your organs,” and break down and remove “toxic waste...
FTC, State Attorneys General, Insurance Commissioners Crack Down on Bogus "Medical Discount Plans" Peddled to the Uninsured, Uninsurable, and Unemployed
Operators charged with scamming people who did not have health insurance – the uninsured, the unemployed, and the uninsurable – have been targeted by a federal-state coalition of law enforcement agencies for fraudulently marketing “medical discount plans” as health insurance. ...