Group pitches anti-spyware guidelines

1. Group pitches anti-spyware guidelines

The Anti-Spyware Coalition offered up standard guidelines on Thursday for detecting, rating and protecting against unwelcome programs that have plagued Internet users in recent years.

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- read full story from CNET news.com, Oct 27 2005


2. VOIP Firms, Privacy Pros Spar with FCC Over Wiretaps

With a deadline looming in November for emergency 911 services for VOIP service providers, an alliance of civil liberties groups and technology companies recently filed a petition seeking a court ruling that the Federal Communications Commission "exceeded its statutory authority" when it adopted rules to ensure that law enforcement can tap Internet phone calls.

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- read full story from eweek.com, Oct 27 2005


3. German Web Hosting Provider Plans Significant U.S. Expansion

KARLSRUHE, Germany—International Web hosting provider 1&1, based here, plans significant expansion over the next 18 months in both the United States and around the world.

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- read full story from eweek.com, Oct 27 2005


4. BBC suspends Blackberry network after mixed-up emails

The BBC has suspended its Blackberry email service after a bug in Research In Motion's server software mixed together snippets from different messages between senior executives.

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- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Oct 27 2005


5. AOL and Yahoo! To Deploy Goodmail's CertifiedEmail Service

Goodmail Systems, Mountain View, CA, yesterday said that America Online and Yahoo! will deploy the Goodmail CertifiedEmail service to help shield messages from spam, fraud and phishing scams.

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- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Oct 27 2005


6. Google targets Craigslist, eBay for destruction

Internet advertising has taken a $2bn chunk out of the $19bn classified advertising business in the US, and Google wants in. Screenshots of the company's secret weapon to achieve this goal, Google Base, finally surfaced this week.

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- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Oct 27 2005


7. Microsoft aims to trounce Google

People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates. The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search.

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- read full story from BBC News, Oct 27 2005


8. Internet use up, but so is user concern

Computer and Internet use is up but so are concerns about identity theft and other online dangers. Fifty-five per cent of American households had access to the Internet at home in 2003, more than triple the percentage in 1997, according to a report released on Thursday by the Census Bureau.

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- read full story from scmp.com, Oct 28 2005


9. School orders students to remove blogs

A Roman Catholic high school has ordered its students to remove their online diaries from the Internet, citing a threat from cyberpredators.
Students at Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta appear to be heeding a directive from the principal, the Reverend Kieran McHugh.

For more on this:
- read full story from scmp.com, Oct 27 2005