Reuters is reporting tonight that the Senate has passed an extension to the ban on Internet taxes which, as reported here, expired on October 31. The extension carries the ban forward until November 1, 2003. The House approved an identical bill last month, for which the President has already expressed his support, so now it goes straight to him for his signature.

Reuters has this article about a report released on Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, with some interesting numbers about the dot-com meltdown: 17% of Internet users have been asked to pay for previously free content, and 88% of them go elsewhere or offline for that service rather than pay for it. The full report (PDF format) has a lot more stats and some very good analysis—well worth a read.