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Lawmaker to review privacy code - Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain said he plans to review voluntary industry efforts to protect the privacy of people using the Internet. [News.com]
 
Lawsuit focuses on Y2K upgrades - In the first class-action suit regarding a Year 2000 bug, a New York-based computer hardware company has filed a lawsuit in California state court claiming a database accounting software company failed to provide free year 2000 compliance upgrades. [News.com]
 
Lawyers push E*Trade suit online - A number of investors who use online brokerage E*Trade (EGRP) say the site did them wrong. [News.com]
 
Library sued over filtering - A local civil rights group today sued a county in Virginia over a recently instituted library policy that requires that certain Web sites be blocked for all patrons, regardless of age. [News.com]
 
Life after the CDA: Censorship - By rejecting the most controversial provision in the Communications Decency Act in June, the Supreme Court unequivocally granted the Internet the same First Amendment protections as those staunchly guarded for print media. [News.com]
 
Linking a copyright violation? - Sean Peck used to grind away as a software engineer for the popular search site Lycos before he got the Internet entrepreneurial bug and started News Index, a little-known online news search engine. [News.com]
 
Livingston to debut remote access software - Livingston Enterprises will release a new set of software for managing the billing process for remote access connections to service providers. [News.com]
 
Lotus debuts new Domino.Doc - Lotus Development today debuted the latest version of its document management application and outlined its market strategy for the product. [News.com]
 
Lotus: Asia business forging ahead - IBM's (IBM) software unit Lotus Development said today that its business had grown strongly in the Asia Pacific during 1997 despite the region's economic crisis. [News.com]
 
Lotus: Piracy fears overblown - Concerns that Asia is a hotbed for pirated software are "grossly exaggerated," the president of U.S. software maker Lotus Development said today. [News.com]
 
Low-cost Sun computers coming - To counter the growing popularity of Windows NT workstations, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will release two workstations next month that combine new processor technology and low prices. [News.com]
 
Lucent acquires Gigabit start-up - The glut of start-ups vying for a share of the nascent next-generation Ethernet networking technology market is starting to shake out. [News.com]
 
Lure of Net riches overtakes Asia - With its reputation as a Western medium of unfettered political debate and sexual licentiousness, the Internet arrived in Asia to a wary welcome--especially among the region's control-minded governments. [News.com]
 
MCI attacks on several fronts - Expanding its reach into the brutally competitive Internet market, MCI (MCIC) has been aligning itself with several heavy hitters and strengthening its infrastructure in what appears to be a renewed push online. [News.com]
 
MCI rolls out 56-kbps access - MCI said it will offer 56-kbps Net access technology starting today, joining a laundry list of companies rolling out the product. [News.com]
 
MCI ups Net backbone - MCI Telecommunications (MCIC) said it doubled the core circuit capacity of its Internet backbone to dual 622 megabits per second and added more than 4,000 access ports to accommodate Internet traffic growth. [News.com]
 
MS college deal protest escalates - A group of about 150 San Francisco State University students rallied yesterday in protest of a partnership that would make Microsoft and three other companies the exclusive providers of Internet and PC technology for the California State University system. [News.com]
 
MS debuts VPN software - Microsoft (MSFT) continues to push its Windows NT Server operating system as a useful tool for service providers. [News.com]
 
MS decries China piracy - China has made headway against the rampant software piracy that hampers sales of Microsoft (MSFT) products, but counterfeiting is still a serious problem, chairman Bill Gates said in Beijing. [News.com]
 
MS extends data storage - Microsoft (MSFT) is fine-tuning its development repository to better work with data analysis tools from a wide range of software makers. [News.com]
 
 

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