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Florida Sues Expedia And Orbitz Over Taxes

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said today his office has sued online travel companies Expedia and Orbitz for failing to pay the right amount of taxes on hotel room rentals. The lawsuit states that while the companies have been collecting these taxes from consumers all along, they have only been paying a portion of the taxes to the state and keeping the rest as profit.  Florida says the practice denies it of millions of dollars every year in tax revenue.

MySpace Profile Lands School Cop In Hot Water

An on-campus police officer for a Florida middle school is under a criminal investigation because of his MySpace account. One of the people on his friends list had a link on their profile that led to an Internet porn site. Gulf Middle School resource officer John Nohejl is being investigated by the New Port Richey Police Department and the Florida attorney general's cyber crimes unit for making the site available to underage children.

Google Teams up with State of Florida

Google has teamed up with the state of Florida to help residents find information buried deep in local government web sites.

Google Assists With Florida's Public Records

You know those “fleecing of America” stories?  This isn’t one of them.  For absolutely no charge, Google is helping make Florida’s public records more accessible.

Universal & Blended Search at SES

The Search Engine Strategies session on Universal and Blended Search was the highlight of the day at SES on Monday. A great panel made up of a cross section of industry luminaries made for stimulating and varied discussion of one of the biggest things to launch in search for years. Panelist Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR suggested that Universal search is a huge development and rivals the Google Florida update.

Florida Puts The Squeeze On AOL

The Florida Attorney General's Office has reached an agreement with America Online concerning the erroneous billing of 6,000 customers in Florida. Attorney General Charlie Crist's Economic Crime Division began investigating AOL in September of 2005 after receiving over 1,000 complaints from consumers.

HP Moves Tech. Forum to Florida

Hewlett-Packard's Technology Forum was scheduled to begin in New Orleans this week, but has been rescheduled for obvious reasons.

Florida Man Nabbed For Wireless Net Theft

St. Petersburg police charge a 41 year-old man with unauthorized access to a computer network.

Dennis Could Menace Gulf Coast, Bypassing Florida

Meteorologic models indicate Hurricane Dennis will steer away from central Florida and move up the Gulf of Mexico.

Southern Florida Gets Best U.S. Eclipse View

People in southern Florida got the best view in the U.S. of last night's partial solar eclipse.