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Activists picket at health insurance conference (CNN) Activists ratcheted up the pressure for health care reform Tuesday, picketing in front of a hotel where a group of insurance industry leaders were meeting. March 09, 2010 7:30 PM Mandatory insurance proposed for UK dogs (AP via Yahoo! News) A chip for Spot? In a country where guns are tightly controlled and even carrying a kitchen knife can bring prison time, some thugs use dogs to menace their victims. Now the British government is proposing that dog owners be forced to get microchips and take out insurance for their pets. March 09, 2010 5:07 PM Showdown With Health Insurance Companies (ABC News) The final push for health care reform has become an all-out assault on health insurance companies. President Obama and liberal advocacy groups are attacking insurance companies for unreasonable profts, but those companies are fighting back with a national ad campaign. March 09, 2010 6:48 PM Video: Insurance Co.'s Anger Citizens (CBS News) Emotions are running high in Washington as the push for a House vote for health care reform approaches. As Nancy Cordes reports, protesters directed their anger at the insurance company. March 09, 2010 7:03 PM Mandatory Insurance Proposed for UK Dogs (ABC News) UK crackdown on dangerous dogs could make insurance, microchips mandatory for all Insurance - Business - Financial Services - Agents and Marketers - United States March 09, 2010 4:46 PM Obama Takes Aim At Health Insurance Companies (NPR) President Obama traveled to Acadia University in suburban Philadelphia on Monday to make the case one more time for Congress to pass legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. He went after Republicans for their unified opposition, and attacked big insurance companies. March 09, 2010 2:07 PM Obama launches attack on health insurance companies (Washington Post) The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases as President Obama and his aides enter what they hope will be the final stretch of a year-long political war over health-care reform. March 08, 2010 11:00 PM MetLife to acquire life insurance unit from AIG for $15.5 bln (Vietnam Net) MetLife Inc. is to acquire American International Group’s (AIG’s) overseas life and health insurance unit for 15.5 billion U.S. dollars, the company said Monday. March 09, 2010 8:02 PM Oppn rejects health insurance changes (BigPond News) The federal government has attacked the opposition for rejecting its private health insurance changes. March 09, 2010 5:37 PM Legislation extending unemployment insurance appears poised to clear Senate hurdle (New York Daily News) Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless appears poised to clear a key hurdle in the Senate Tuesday, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year. March 09, 2010 1:10 PM

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'JihadJane' recruited for Europe, SAsia terror attacks: US (AFP) AFP - US authorities charged an American woman known as "JihadJane" with recruiting jihadist fighters via the Internet and conspiring to kill an unnamed individual in Sweden. March 09, 2010 8:28 PM U.S. weighing China Internet censorship case (Reuters) Reuters - The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results, the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday. March 09, 2010 6:35 PM Cisco leapfrogs rivals with faster router (Reuters) Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc introduced its first major new routers in six years and said they can be configured to handle Internet traffic up to 12 times faster than rival products. March 09, 2010 5:54 PM New Cisco Router Supports 322Tbps, Designed for Internet Video (PC World) PC World - What can you do with 322 terabits per second? Cisco Systems says it's enough bandwidth to allow every person in China to make a video call--simultaneously. And if that's something you want to do, Cisco says it now has hardware capable of the task. March 09, 2010 5:44 PM US lawmakers seek action on Internet freedom (AFP) AFP - US lawmakers from the two major parties on Tuesday issued a joint call for government action to ensure Internet freedom overseas amid alarm at China's cyber-censorship. March 09, 2010 5:37 PM Facebook Reported Ready To Let Users Share Locations (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Facebook may join other Internet companies in offering location-based services. The social-networking site plans to let its users to share their location and see the locations of friends, according to published reports. March 09, 2010 5:06 PM Booksellers fighting Amazon's Canadian bid (Reuters) Reuters - Fearing an apparent assault by Amazon.com on Canadian culture, the Canadian Booksellers Association is urging the federal government to block the U.S. Internet retailer from establishing a physical presence north of the border. March 09, 2010 4:28 PM As Ballmer Praises Apple, EFF Cites Stiff App Store Rules (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - With the stakes high in Microsoft's bid to add its search engine to the iPhone, a few words of praise by the software giant's CEO have drawn a considerable amount of attention. March 09, 2010 4:25 PM FCC to Propose National Digital Literacy Corps (PC World) PC World - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will propose a National Digital Literacy Corps to help U.S. residents get online as part of a national broadband plan due out next week. March 09, 2010 4:20 PM Hackers target freshly uncovered Internet Explorer hole (AFP) AFP - Microsoft on Tuesday warned that hackers are targeting a freshly-uncovered weakness in some earlier versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser software. March 09, 2010 4:10 PM