China 'blocking VoIP calls for two years'

China 'blocking VoIP calls for two years'

China has moved to protect its fixed telephone line business by banning free internet telephone services for at least two years, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, March 21 2006

Mirapoint Unveils E-mail Archiving Appliance

Messaging security vendor Mirapoint today brought out a policy-based e-mail archiving appliance that indexes and organizes messages to help companies comply with legal and regulatory requirements for records retention.

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-read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 20 2006


Put Your Antispyware Apps to the Test

Does your antispyware software really work? With security experts warning of "rogue" antispyware products that sometimes do more harm than good, two security researchers have decided to take matters into their own hands.

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-read full story from Yahoo! News, March 20 2006

New bug can crash Internet Explorer

Microsoft is investigating a newly reported flaw in Internet Explorer 6 that could cause the browser to crash when viewing a malicious Web page, the company said Monday.

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-read full story from ZDnet.com, March 20 2006
Video-conferencing opens niche market in cross-continental bonding

For a moment, Marta Jaramillo-Ospina did not recognise the faces on the sleek, flat-screen TV. But the smiling, waving figures quickly brought a look of recognition, then surprise, then joy, to her face.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, March 21 2006

FTC's CAN-SPAM Report Card

FTC releases progress report on Congress's antispam law, but some experts are not impressed.
The federal government's two-year-old antispam law is helping to cut back on unsolicited bulk e-mail, but more must be done to fight the problem. Those are the conclusions of a Federal Trade Commission report, released today, on how well the law is working.

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-read full story from PCWorld.com, March 20 2006
FBI, you've got mail -- NOT!

NEW YORK (AP) -- Budget constraints are forcing some FBI agents to operate without e-mail accounts, according to the agency's top official in New York.

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-read full story from CNN.com, March 20 2006

Web publisher sues over Google index exclusion

If KinderStart.com prevails, the lawsuit could have significant repercussions on the way Google decides to remove Web sites from its index. Google was hit with a lawsuit on Friday by a Web publisher that alleges it has suffered significant financial harm because its site got dropped from the search engine's index.

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-read full story from InfoWord.com, March 20 2006