Category — Technology

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will not try to block Google’s acquisition of online ad-serving vendor DoubleClick, the agency said Thursday. Full Story.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced a new e-mail service that alerts for a wide variety of FDA’s Web pages, including food safety protection, medical product approvals and consumer health information. Full Story.

“Being able to directly communicate with consumers, health care professionals and the regulated industry about the safety of our food supply and medical products is critical to FDA’s ongoing commitment to protecting the public health,” said Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs.

“E-mail is the leading use of the Internet, and this service strengthens FDA’s ability to keep its audiences informed quickly and effectively.”

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Facebook, a social networking Internet site, has agreed in San Jose federal court to limit the ability of its 58 million members to send text messages to recycled cell phone numbers. A plaintiff sued alleging that explicit comments and other upsetting content were being sent to her cell phone. She further alleged that she was charged 10 cents each time and that Facebook received a share of the fee. Full Story.

The two-month-old case highlighted the problems that can arise as Web sites extend their services to mobile handsets with phone numbers that have been reassigned after another customer’s service ended.