Netflix stole the market from Blockbuster by shifting the paradigm to video by mail and then innovated again by creating competition to its own model through electronic distribution.

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Back in the early 80s a man by the name of Geoff Goodfellow had an idea: to relay electronic mail from Arpanet to his alphanumeric pager.

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The CAN-SPAM Act, which is enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, established our first national standards for sending electronic mail.

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About 20 percent of the 600 cases reviewed by Los Angeles' Stalking and Threat Assessment Team last year involved e-mail or other electronic communications, said Los Angeles deputy district attorney Rhonda Saunders.

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For example, some of the Intel employees asked by the company to retain their e-mail after AMD filed its suit failed to move electronic messages from their 'sent box' to their hard drive, where they would have been preserved, Intel's lawyers wrote in the letter.

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