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7 Tips for Avoiding Counterfeit
Items Online

Internet Scambusters tells you how to avoid buying counterfeit items on the Net. Here are 7 tips to avoid getting taken...Story

What To Do If You Get Scammed

Internet Scambusters offers some excellent resources to help if you are scammed online...Story

Things You Should Know About Viruses, Worms and Extensions in E-mails...

A well-respected programmer, designer, and writer tells you how to avoid computer viruses...Story

WorldSubmit.com –Now
ProBoost.com (or both)?

Unsatisfied with a search engine-submission service they had contracted, and suspicious that the company had changed names, though they denied it, Ray Pearson contacted the Better Business Bureau. The BBB didn't take action on the complaint. Read Ray's account...Story

Is The Better Business Bureau
Really as Ethical as Claimed?

This series of articles, published by a well respected e-commerce guru named named J.L. Scott, phD, is an indepth look at the BBB and you may as surprised as we were to learn that all may not what it appears when it comes to who the BBB really protects...Story

Microsoft Takes Steps to Protect
Consumers and Honest Channel
Partners in Iowa and Nebraska

Redmond, Wash. /PRNewswire/NEWSdesk -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that it has filed software piracy lawsuits against three companies in Iowa and one in Nebraska...Story

Symposium Highlights Paradigm Shift for Treating Cardiovascular Disease

A symposium exploring research on the significance of vascular function and how it may alter the current paradigm on cardiovascular disease was held recently during the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians (ACP)...Story

FDA Approves ACTIVELLA for the Prevention of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

Pharmacia Corporation (NYSE: PHA) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ACTIVELLA(TM), (estradiol/norethindrone acetate tablets) for the prevention of osteoporosis associated with menopause...Story

Internet-Based Kids' Service Welcomes Popular Online Edition

Of Premiere Sports Magazine for Young People Sports Illustrated For Kids and Passport New Media announced a partnership to include SI For Kids online content in Passport's new service, Your Own World(TM) or YOW(TM) for short, which brings children ages 2 to 12 the best of the Internet within a closed offline environment...Story

American Sleep Apnea Association Calls on Physicians to Consider Sleep Apnea In Their Hypertensive Patients

The publication of the article "Association of Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Sleep Apnea, and Hypertension in a Large Community-Based Study" in Journal of the American Medical Association reminds physicians to look for sleep apnea in their patients with high blood pressure. It is estimated that at least ten million Americans have undiagnosed sleep apnea...Story

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