Spam vigilante spat knocks out blog services

Spam vigilante spat knocks out blog services

A dispute between a mysterious Russian spammer and an Israeli antispam firm spilled over to the rest of the Internet on Wednesday, when denial of service attacks aimed at the Israeli firm's Web site knocked out servers that host millions of blogs.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, May 4 2006


VOIP fees set to rise with regulation on the horizon

With the deadline for voice over IP (VoIP) carriers to comply with the FCC Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act [CALEA] less than a year away, VoIP vendors are beginning to roll out their wire tap technology.

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-read full story from InfoWorld.com, May 5 2006


Anti-spam measures tackle the symptom, not the problem

Government officials from throughout the Asia-Pacific region gathered in Calgary, Canada, last month for a two-day meeting devoted to the status of the anti-spam battle.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, May 9 2006


Survey finds 14pc of world's adults use internet

Calculating the international growth of the World Wide Web is largely guesswork, more than a decade after the commercial internet exploded into popular view.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, May 9 2006


AOL to offer free phone numbers to instant-messaging users

AOL is set to offer its instant-messaging users a free phone number to use for incoming calls, and for a fee, the ability to call regular phones from the software.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, May 8 2006


Microsoft Preps New Version of Windows CE

While Microsoft Corp. has been beset by delays in its new operating system for personal computers, developers quietly have been working on a new version of another Windows, this one found in everything from sewing machines to sophisticated cell phones.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, May 9 2006


E-Mail Is Exhibit A

Before you click that send" button, ask yourself these questions: Are you able to defend the statements made in that E-mail? Are you willing to do so under oath in court?

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-read full story from InternetWeek.com, May 8 2006


Antispam Firm Claims Attack

The CEO of an antispam firm whose service was knocked offline by a spammer earlier this week claimed his company was the victim of a sophisticated attack carried out, in part, with the help of someone at a top-tier ISP.

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-read full story from PCWorld.com, May 8 2006