"And it downloads your steps straight from your pedometer onto your personalized web site so you can track your progress whenever you download your steps.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Previously, the industry had urged consumers to individually "opt out" of more than a hundred different companies that track Web browsing behavior.

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No single Twitter account had previously reached 1 million followers, according to two Web sites that track popularity on Twitter, a site on which users post 140-character messages that are distributed to groups of followers.

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While Russia and some African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries want to tax foreign content providers and track web-based traffic, the EU has formed a bloc with the US to kibosh any such changes.

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