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The impact the Internet has had on growing revenues, increasing profit and strengthening businesses' bottom line ' whether electronic or brick-and-mortar ' has been tremendous.
And just as in the general business sector, matrimonial attorneys have recognized the Internet as promoting a variety of goals for themselves and their clients

Businesses invest in technology to save money. They hope that the latest invention will live up to the marketers' claims of efficiencies over old ways of doing business.
But paradoxically, when "computing" the savings, don't forget the extra costs ' the "technology burden" as it's called ' imposed by innovation, whether cutting edge or mainstream. Keep in mind that sometimes you have to spend more ' a lot more ' before you can spend less.

Now that the 109th session of Congress is well under way, passing The Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act must be a top priority for legislators. This proposed legislation would prohibit states from imposing a punitive tax on nonresidents who choose to telecommute some or most of the time to in-state employers. By proscribing such a tax, the law would remove a significant obstacle to the continued growth of an important form of e-commerce: interstate telework.

Recent cases in e-commerce law and in the e-commerce industry.

The latest state and federal legislative developments in Internet law.

Recent developments of note in the Internet industry.This month:
First Convictions in U.S. Peer-To-Peer Piracy Fight
Music Industry Boss Defends File-Sharing Lawsuits
8th Circuit: No ISP Subpoenas

Google and its general counsel, David Drummond, reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the company's failure to register more than $80 million in employee stock options in the 2 years prior to its IPO.

Law firms use Internet technology to communicate in ways that were simply not possible 10 years ago. This has allowed lawyers to share information as never before. More importantly, the technology associated with the Internet allows law firms direct control over Internet communications because they own the individual networks that allow information to be shared. This direct control brings increased liability for copyright infringement, unless firms comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Compliance requires little investment of time or money. Similarly, e-mail protection is readily available at little or no additional cost.