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In January, Mozilla announced plans to add a "Do Not Track" feature to Firefox, a tool that would allow users to opt out from having advertisers and other sites track their web-surfing habits. As Mozilla has readily admitted , the feature is far from perfect: Backwardly, tracking companies would actually have to agree not to monitor a user's browsing patterns, even once he or she opts out

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

A new "innovation center" opens in Mexico City. It's good business for local startups--and for IBM

Simpler, always-on wireless connections will make gadgets cheaper and make the Web ala carte. Despondent geeks and over-taxed laptops litter venues all over Austin, Texas, where Wifi connections at SXSW have been crippled by the crowds

Google's tools don't easily translate into synthesized speech or Braille. Now the National Federation of the Blind has issued a federal complaint with the Justice Department, alleging that university use of Google Apps for Education amounts to discrimination.

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Technology has greatly aided our lives and made several previously difficult tasks easy. But technology has also brought some negative changes.

From Video Commenting to iReport Integration, mobile consumers and videophiles are about to have a lot more on-the-go options from CNN.com--and presumably others to come.

Most people who buy a Big Mac aren't concerned about where it came from--or whether the accompanying fries are made using sustainable palm oil. But apparently, McDonald's cares. The company recently announced its Sustainable Land Management Commitment , a pledge to work with suppliers that ensure agricultural raw materials and packaging come from sustainable sources.

Today, it seems, most young entrepreneurs are focused on creating the next great tech product or Web service. After all, who can blame them?

In what would position Netflix as an even bigger threat to the major cable players, the company might soon offer original programming, according to Deadline Hollywood . The streaming TV and movie powerhouse has reportedly outbid networks from HBO to AMC for the rights to the David Fincher and Kevin Spacey series House of Cards. Nellie Andreeva calls it "probably the biggest gamble" in the company's history, and reports that while negotiations are still ongoing, Netflix has offered to commit to two seasons of the drama series in a deal that could be worth more than $100 million.

Conscious that as leader in online advertising its systems sometimes contain ads to illicit services, Google is tightening up its policies . Just as the U.S. authorities tighten up their stance against piracy and counterfeiting online, Google has revealed that it's taking a number of steps to "tune" its systems to "keep out the bad guys" who use its systems to advertise counterfeit goods and services.

Last week, Fast Company had the chance to sit in on a venture-capital pitch session featuring a number of startups that have in the past participated in the Cleantech Open , a series of competitions that provides funding and advice to cleantech startups. Below, we look at three of the companies with the most compelling pitches. Fenix International This startup designs distributed, small-scale micro power generation and storage solutions in a box.

Last week, Mozilla VP of products Jay Sullivan indicated that HTML5 would eventually replace Adobe Flash. Along with Mozilla Firefox, every browser maker out there seems to be jumping on the bandwagon of HTML5, a term that has become the most overused buzzword in the tech industry. But HTML5 is more than just the "trend de jour," says Ryan Gavin, senior director of Internet Explorer