Discover offers Web access; partner seeks database rewards

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Discover Card rolled out its Discover Connection Web-access service, which provides unlimited Internet service to card holders for $19.95 monthly. A 5% Cashback Bonus award on the monthly access fee may also be granted to subscribers via the new service. For the initial month of subscription, Discover Connection provides access for free, as well as four e-mail boxes, six megabytes of Web space and bLink, a twice-a-month newsletter on Web concerns. Discover Connection is established via a three-pronged alliance with EarthLink Network, a Pasadena, CA-based Internet service provider and content provider Planet Direct of Andover, MA.

Marketing procedures, Services introduction, New Products/Services, Strategic alliances, Marketing/Advertising Methods, New Electronic Marketing, Demographics, Discover Card Services Inc., EarthLink Inc., Planet Direct

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CA Governor passes 3-year ban on e-taxes; anti-spam law next

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California Governor Pete Wilson has signed into law Internet Tax Freedom Act, a three-year ban on new taxes on online purchases and Internet access late August 1998. Wilson said the state should lead the policy debate concerning ways to keep Internet a vibrant avenue for opportunity and growth. The governor also received an anti-spam bill from the California Legislature, another measure expected to be signed into law. California Internet Tax Freedom Act exempts Internet merchants with no physical presence in the state from collecting sales tax on items sold in California, effective January 1, 1999.

On-Line Information Services, Videotex & Teletext, Legal/Government Regulation, Internet services

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FCC settles with alleged access fee scammer

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New Millennium Concepts which did business as Rhino-point.com has been foiled by the Federal Trade Commission from duping any more than the 59,000 who have been duped already into thinking that free Internet access will be provided by the fraudulent company.

Telegraph & other communications, Environmental Marketing, New Millennium Concepts, Rhino-point.com

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