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(InfoWorld) - Broadband providers need the right to enter into commercial agreements that allow some Web sites to perform better than rival sites, a BellSouth Corp. executive said Wednesday.

(InfoWorld) - With new U.S. federal guidelines looming, the Liberty Alliance says that it is months away from explaining the role it will play in developing stronger online authentication specifications. The identity standards consortium now says that the first public documents from its recently formed Strong Authentication Expert Group are expected by the end of September.

(InfoWorld) - BMW denied that it used misleading practices on its German Web site and criticized Google Inc. for removing the German BMW Web site from its index, despite the re-inclusion of the site late Tuesday.