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Bloggers Must Disclose Payments for Reviews New York Times

The Federal Trade Commission will require bloggers to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products. It is the first time since 1980 that the commission has revised its guidelines on endorsements and testimonials, and the first time the rules have covered bloggers. But the commission stopped short Monday of specifying how bloggers must disclose any conflicts of interest.

France Telecom executive quits amid suicides Examiner

France Telecom SA said Monday that the company’s second-in-command has quit, after weeks of mounting criticism over management’s handling of a spate of suicides by employees. Louis-Pierre Wenes will be replaced as deputy CEO in charge of French operations by Stephane Richard, a former chief of staff for France’s finance minister who joined the company in July as head of international operations, France Telecom said in a statement.

Venezuela to Outlaw Violent Video Games, Toys Associated Press

Shouts of “Kill him! Kill him!” ring out as the preteens train their virtual assault rifles on the last remaining terrorist and spray him with bullets. Blood splatters. The enemy collapses. And they cheerfully wrap up another game of “Counter-Strike.” The most popular video games among kids often imitate life outside this Internet cafe in San Augustin – one of the many crime-ridden slums in Venezuela’s capital, where residents say too many of the young players easily trade joysticks for guns.

MySpace to give free music a spin Australian IT

Social networking site MySpace has launched an advertiser-sponsored service that allows users to hear thousands of music tracks online for free. The MySpace Music operation is at the heart of the site’s plan to make money from its massive user base. MySpace Music launched in Australia yesterday and provides free online access to thousands of songs from the catalogues of EMI Music, Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, along with independent groups The Orchard and IODA. If users want to download and store tracks, they can be bought from the iTunes digital music store.

Chinese media tempted by fantasy of women-only Swedish town The Local

A mythical Swedish town where men are barred from entering and women turn to homosexuality has piqued the interest of several Chinese media outlets. The town, supposedly founded in 1820 in the northern Swedish woods by a wealthy widow, boasts 25,000 residents and a medieval castle, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua. A pair of blonde female sentries stand guard at the unnamed town, referred to in reports as “Chako Paul City”, and men wishing to enter risk being “beaten half to death” by police. In addition, many of the town’s female residents turn to homosexuality “because they could not suppress their sexual needs”, the Chinese news service Harbin News reports.

Toronto teacher facing sex charges commits suicide: reports CBC

A Toronto high school teacher charged with trying to initiate sexual contact with two teenage boys has died after jumping in front of a subway train, local media are reporting. David Dewees, who taught Grade 10 at Toronto’s Jarvis Collegiate Institute, died at the High Park subway station on Saturday, the Toronto Star reported Sunday, citing unnamed sources. He was 32. Police acknowledged that a man died after being injured on the tracks on Saturday morning, but declined to disclose his identity. Dewees was arrested and charged Thursday with two counts of invitation to sexual touching as well as two counts of luring, Toronto police said.

[Not breaking not news] The hidden dangers of P2P file sharing GCN

Recent reports that sensitive personnel information about U.S. soldiers has been found on foreign computers highlights the risks of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications that can make more data than you realize available to other users on the networks. It has been known for years that many of the mainline P2P applications can quietly make much more than audio and video files in your shared folder available for downloading by others. This is one of the reasons that the Defense Department has banned unauthorized P2P applications since 2004. But Triversa Inc., which provides services to locate files exposed by P2P file sharing, reportedly has found unauthorized foreign downloads of files about soldiers. The most recent incident, reported last week by the Washington Post, is only the latest in a series of leaks that persist well after the P2P ban. Everyone knows that P2P networks remove the distinction between client and server, giving other users access to files that you have downloaded and stored in a shared folder. That’s why it’s called peer-to-peer and file sharing. But apparently this knowledge is not common enough. And what is even less commonly known is that P2P apps can expose almost any kind of data once it gets into your computer.

FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials FTC

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the FTC Act. The notice incorporates several changes to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, which address endorsements by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities, as well as the disclosure of important connections between advertisers and endorsers. The Guides were last updated in 1980. Under the revised Guides, advertisements that feature a consumer and convey his or her experience with a product or service as typical when that is not the case will be required to clearly disclose the results that consumers can generally expect. In contrast to the 1980 version of the Guides – which allowed advertisers to describe unusual results in a testimonial as long as they included a disclaimer such as “results not typical” – the revised Guides no longer contain this safe harbor.

Italian scientist reproduces Shroud of Turin Reuters

An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth is a medieval fake. The shroud, measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches bears the image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a crucified man some believers say is Christ. “We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the same characteristics as the Shroud,” Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to illustrate the results at a conference on the para-normal this weekend in northern Italy, said on Monday.

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