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Civil liberties groups continued to battle this week against a case that they say could potentially curtail free speech on the Net by imposing regional restrictions on global Internet content.

Civil liberties groups continued to battle this week against a case that they say could potentially curtail free speech on the Net by imposing regional restrictions on global Internet content.

While the war between heavyweight Web browsers like Netscape Communication Corp.'s Navigator and Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) continues to fester, the final version of Mozilla, an open source program that users say could out-trump both big-brand browsers, is set to make its debut.

While most attendees of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference in San Francisco this week agreed that more needs to be done to protect consumers' privacy against the onslaught of rapidly advancing technologies that track, store and share sensitive data, how that privacy should be guarded remained a subject of fiery discussion.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced results from an international law enforcement sweep aimed at squashing deceptive spam and Internet fraud, reporting yesterday that 63 cases have been brought against Net scams involving matters such as phony cancer cures and e-mail investment schemes in the last six months.

Query site operator Ask Jeeves Inc. launched the Teoma search engine yesterday, threatening to out seek search rivals such as Google Inc. by offering what it claims are three new proprietary techniques to achieve relevant results.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced results from an international law enforcement sweep aimed at squashing deceptive spam and Internet fraud, reporting yesterday that 63 cases have been brought against Net scams involving matters such as phony cancer cures and e-mail investment schemes in the last six months.

Palm Inc. extended its foray into the corporate software market Monday with the introduction of a new product aimed at IT developers and system integrators who want to create wireless applications that can access company databases in real time.