Microsoft Pushing Spam-Fighting System, Yahoo.com, 22 June 2005

“By the end of the year, Microsoft's Hotmail and MSN services will get more aggressive at rejecting mail sent through companies or service providers that do not register their domain names with the Sender ID system. The system calls for Internet service providers, companies and other domain name holders to submit lists of their mail servers' unique numeric addresses. On the receiving end, software polls a database to verify that a message was actually processed by one of those servers.”

Full story at http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050622/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_spam



Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technology, CnetNews.com, 22 June 2005

“Microsoft's move increases pressure on e-mail senders to adopt Sender ID. The technology requires Internet service providers, companies and other Internet domain holders to publish so-called SPF, or Sender Policy Framework, records to identify their mail servers. About 1 million domains currently publish SPF records. That's a far from the 71.4 million registered domains worldwide at the end of last year. Experts say one of the problems with Sender ID is that it doesn't work with e-mail forwarding services. The basic premise of Sender ID is to check if an e-mail that claims to be coming from a certain Internet domain is really being sent from the e-mail servers associated with that domain.”

Full Story at http://news.com.com/Microsoft+pushes+spam-filtering+technology/2100-7355_3-5758365.html?tag=nefd.top



Yahoo! shuts door on dodgy chatrooms, The register, 22 June 2005

“Yahoo! stopped users from creating their own chat rooms. A statement on the site said the service was unavailable while Yahoo! worked on improvements and on making it compliant with Yahoo's terms of service. The change of heart came after an exposé by a Houston TV station which revealed Yahoo! was hosting chat rooms with titles including Girls 13 And Under for Older Guys and 9-17-Year Olds Wantin' Sex. Yahoo has been criticised for failing to take action on this issue before. The combination of lost advertising revenue and a $10m lawsuit.”

Full Story at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/22/yahoo_shuts_chatrooms/



Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms Over Sex Content, yahoo.com, 23 Jun. 05

“Yahoo Inc. has pulled the plug on perhaps hundreds of chat rooms operating on its site after a media report revealed that some of the rooms were used to promote sex with minors. How long the chat rooms that allegedly promoted sex with minors have operated is unclear. Yahoo does not monitor the content in the chat rooms, but will close a room if it receives complaints”

Full Story at http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050623/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_chat_rooms



India portal Rediff.com branches out, CnetNews.com, 22 June 2005

“Rediff.com, based in Mumbai, is expanding its offerings to include voice over instant messenger geared for low bandwidth connections, a social networking site, and a news site with computer and human-generated listings. Rediff.com offers e-mail in English, Hindi and a dozen other major regional languages, as well as news, blogs, shopping, radio, information on jobs, movies and sports, and its own matchmaking services. Eventually, e-mail users will be able to search their messages for specific keywords.”

Full Story at http://news.com.com/India+portal+Rediff.com+branches+out+-+page+2/2100-1038_3-5757820-2.html?tag=st.next



India portal Rediff.com branches out, Zdenet.com, 22 June 2005

“Rediff.com, based in Mumbai, is expanding its offerings to include voice over instant messenger geared for low bandwidth connections, a social networking site, and a news site with computer and human-generated listings. Rediff.com offers e-mail in English, Hindi and a dozen other major regional languages, as well as news, blogs, shopping, radio, information on jobs, movies and sports, and its own matchmaking services. Eventually, e-mail users will be able to search their messages for specific keywords.”

Full Story at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5757820.html



VOIP Regulations Enter a Perfect Storm, eWeek.com, 22 June 2005

“Upcoming legislative action and an impending Supreme Court decision are reawakening the prospect of Internet regulation, and this time around, policy experts are warning that applications such as voice over IP could get caught in the crosshairs. On the legislative front, one of the most important issues facing lawmakers will be how to tax emerging Internet telephony service. But the issue of regulation and taxation extends beyond the rise of voice traveling the IP networks. Voice is just one of an ever-growing number of applications depending on the Internet and the broadband connections into homes and business”

Full Story at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1830705,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594



BlackBerry service interrupted again: RIM, Yahoo.com, 22 June 2005

“BlackBerry said on Wednesday its popular wireless e-mail service was interrupted for some users for the second time in a week because of a hardware problem. The latest interruption followed a similar service glitch on Friday, when some customers suffered outages lasting two minutes to two hours. The spokeswoman said the latest problem was unrelated to the Friday outages.”

Full Story at http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050622/bs_nm/tech_rim_dc