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FTC Says "Do-Not-E-mail" Registry Could Make Spam Worse
A national "do not e-mail" registry would do little to prevent the proliferation of junk e-mail and could even make the spam problem worse, said the Federal Trade Commission in a report. The FTC was required to produce the report for Congress under a provision of the federal Can-Spam Act, which went into effect in January. Canadian Spammer Agrees to Stop, Settles Lawsuit with Yahoo
A Canadian man accused of being one of the biggest spammers in the world by Yahoo Inc. has agreed to stop sending unwanted e-mails and plans to help educate children about the dangers of the Internet. In March, Yahoo sued Eric Head and his father and brother as part of an industry crackdown on unsolicited e-mail, or spam. Half of Employees Think Spam Under Control at Work
More than half of U.S. computer users think that their company's current spam situation is under control, according to a survey. The report, released by software security maker Symantec, found that 50.8 percent of end users believe that spam is not an issue at work. Internet Attack Temporarily Blocks Access to Popular Websites
A domain name outage that left many popular Web sites, including those of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Apple, temporarily inaccessible was the result of an Internet attack, according to Web infrastructure company Akamai. Many of the world's most popular sites suffered from widespread outages, according to Keynote Systems, which compiles statistics related to Web surfing. Video Game Companies Sue to Stop Copying Software
A group of major video game companies has sued 321 Studios -- the company best known for its now-banned DVD copying software -- charging that its new video-game copying software is also illegal. Atari, Electronic Arts and Vivendi Universal Games filed suit against the software company in New York federal court, asking a judge to block distribution of 321 Studios' Games X Copy software. "Phishing" Becomes Fastest-Growing Form of Consumer Theft
New research published by Gartner indicates that illegal access to checking accounts, often gained via technology-borne schemes such as "phishing," has grown into the fastest growing form of consumer theft in the United States. According to Gartner's numbers, roughly 1.98 million people reported that their checking accounts were breached in some way during the last year. Cable, Satellite Companies Sued for Violating Internet Patent
A company that claims to own patent rights in virtually all Internet streaming media services has sued the largest cable and satellite TV companies in the United States. Acacia Research, a Los Angeles-based patent-holding company, contends that the big television companies, ranging from Comcast to the DirecTV Group, are infringing on patents Acacia holds for governing the transmission of audio and video content over the Internet, cable lines and satellite feeds. Broadcom, Microtune Settle Lawsuits, Agree to License Patents
Broadcom said it has dropped all outstanding patent and antitrust litigation against Microtune. Instead, the two companies have entered into a separate patent cross-license agreement worth $22.5 million, "whereby patents claiming priority prior to the effective date of the license agreement are licensed for the lives of the patents, and patents filed within the next four years are licensed for ten years," the statement said. California Releases Standards for Electronic Voting Machines
The California secretary of state released the first standards in the nation for a voter-verified paper trail for electronic voting machines, in an effort to restore voter confidence in the devices. The standards come six months after Secretary of State Kevin Shelley mandated that all new e-voting machines purchased in the state produce a paper trail by July 2005. |
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