GlaxoSmithKline Pulls Swine Flu Vaccines in Canada.

LONDON (AP) — Pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday it has advised medical staff in Canada to not use one batch of swine flu vaccines in case they trigger life-threatening allergies.

Company spokeswoman Gwenan White said that they issued the advice after reports that one batch of the swine flu vaccine might have caused more allergic reactions than normal.

“We have advised health care professionals not to use that batch while health authorities and GlaxoSmithKline investigate,” she said.

White said the batch at issue, which has been distributed across Canada, contains 172,000 doses of the vaccine. She declined to say how many doses had been administered before the advice to stop using them was given.

White said U.K.-based GlaxoSmithKline wrote to Canadian health care professionals advising them to stop using the batch on Nov. 18. She says a total of 7.5 million doses of the vaccine have been distributed in Canada.

GlaxoSmithKline is the world’s second largest drug maker by revenue. Its shares were down 0.08 percent on the London stock exchange at 1,276.50p ($21.16)

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MILWAUKEE (AP) – A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company’s link over a rival’s.

The practice has occasionally prompted a rival to file legal challenges alleging trademark infringement. Now a Wisconsin law firm is trying a new angle – accusing its competitor of violating privacy laws.

Habush Habush & Rottier is one of Wisconsin’s largest law firms, specializing in personal-injury cases. But search for iterations of “Habush” and “Rottier” and a sponsored link for Cannon & Dunphy attorneys often shows up, just above the link for the Habush site.

Habush alleges that Cannon paid for the keywords “Habush” and “Rottier,” in effect hijacking the names and reputation of Habush attorneys.

Cannon acknowledged paying for the keywords but denied wrongdoing, saying it was following a clearly legal business strategy.

The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Milwaukee, where Habush is headquartered. Cannon is based in nearby Brookfield.

Habush based its lawsuit on a Wisconsin right-to-privacy statute that prohibits the use of any living person’s name for advertising purposes without the person’s consent.

“We believe this is deceptive, confusing and misleading,” firm president Robert Habush said of Cannon’s strategy. “If Bill Cannon thinks this is a correct way to do business he needs to have his moral compass taken to the repair shop.”

William Cannon, the founding partner of Cannon & Dunphy, said every business uses the same tactic to remind consumers of their choices.

“This is equally available to Habush if he weren’t so cheap to bid on his own name,” Cannon said.

One legal expert said it wasn’t clear how successful Habush’s lawsuit would be.

Ryan Calo, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, said the statute seemingly was meant to protect people from having their names and images misused to suggest they endorse or represent something. That’s not the case here, he said.

“Although (Cannon’s) conduct may run afoul of the literal words of the statute, I don’t think the conduct at issue goes to the core of this particular aspect of privacy,” he said.

Similar lawsuits have been filed over the keyword issue, with some differences. An American Airlines lawsuit targeted not a rival but Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., and alleged not a privacy violation but that the search giants infringed on its trademarks.

American was upset that Web users who entered search terms such as AAdvantage, the trademarked name of its frequent-flier program, saw results that included links to American’s Web site but also to its rivals under sponsored links.

Google compared its policy to magazines that publish a Ford ad on the page opposite a story about Chevrolets. Yahoo said it had confidence in its policies, which allow advertisers to use others’ trademarked terms if they do so without creating “a likelihood of consumer confusion.”

A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit against Google last year. The case against Yahoo is ongoing.

Paying a company like Google for keywords is a common business practice. Based on how much a business pays, along with other search criteria, someone who searches for those keywords will see the company’s link at the top of the page, labeled as a sponsored link.

The Associated Press searched for “Habush” and “Rottier” on Thursday morning. Cannon’s sponsored link appeared on Google and Bing, Microsoft Corp.’s search engine, but not Yahoo. By Thursday afternoon, the link was no longer on Google.

Cannon said his company didn’t take down the Google keywords, and speculated that Habush turned the tables Thursday afternoon by paying even more for the same keywords to bump out Cannon’s link.

But Habush surmised his rival faced a budget issue. A search engine like Google places ads based in part on users’ clicking patterns and on the advertiser’s prepaid budget for a certain number of views. Habush figured that so many people ran the search terms after news of the lawsuit emerged Thursday morning that the budget had run out.

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Beware of the unlimited mobile internet subscriptons. Until now three case of enormous internet bill have been reported in France, 45′000 Euro, 159′000 Euro and 40′000 Euro.

All of the three were using the Orange unlimited 3G key.

If you too want to have huge mobile internet bill, here is what you should do (at your own risk of course):

• Live in a border town, where your key will switch to the other country’s network
• Take it when you go for your holidays abroad, with it check your emails – and don’t forget to upload the nice photos you just took.
• don’t read the operator’s contract, forget the small typing at the end
• believe that unlimited is really unlimited
• never ever call the customer care to ask what does unlimited mean, and where you can use it (or when)
• To insure payment of your phone bill, set your bank to pay automatically when they get it
• never ask the customer care to put  a spending limit that will alert you in case you spend more than the limit of what they refer as unlimited (confused yet?)

Finally,You are wrong when you think  “Unlimited” is referring to the quantity data you transfer (anything you do on the net transfers data) but it is a matter of TIME spent connected to the internet (doing nothing, so you don’t transfer data)……

Conclusion:

when you buy unlimted 3g Key you just can browse a little (don’t donwload anythign) BUT you can stay conencted a slong as you want (am not sure if from anywhere is ok!!).

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