Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retention

Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retention

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged telecommunications officials to record their customers' Internet activities, CNET News.com has learned.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, May 26 2006


EU to tax e-mail, text messages?

European Union lawmakers are investigating a proposed tax on e-mails and mobile phone text messages as a way to fund the 25-member bloc in the future.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, May 26 2006


Google Accounts For Half Of all U.S. Web Searches

Google in April accounted for one in two U.S. Web searches, a milestone for the search engine, a market research firm said Friday.

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-read full story from InternetWeek.com, May 26 2006


Phishers use Microsoft Word hole as bait

Microsoft last week said it would rush to deliver a patch for a recently discovered hole in Microsoft Word that was being used in sophisticated online attacks.

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-read full story from InfoWorld.com, May 29 2006


Middle class goes broadband as price falls

Middle- and working-class Americans signed up for high-speed Internet access in record numbers in the past year, apparently lured by a price war among phone companies.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News.com, May 29 2006

China Ready To Swipe Spam Crown From U.S.

U.S. junk e-mailers sent more spam than those in any other country during the first quarter, a security company recently reported, although China is hot on America's heels.

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-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, May 28 2006


AT&T, Yahoo Jointly Offer VoIP

AT&T Inc. and Yahoo Inc. Wednesday officially rolled out integrated Internet-based voice services.

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-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, May 26 2006


New Service Turns Phones Into Mini-PCs

Sun claims, "The network is the computer." For social computing company TransMedia, the computer is the phone.

For more on this:-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, May 26 2006