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In a win for Internet service providers (ISPs) that were forced to reveal identities of customers accused of music piracy, a U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has struck down a lower-court ruling on the issue. The decision, released Friday, is a blow to the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) efforts […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday toughened the rules for its controversial E-Rate program, a $2.25 billion initiative to help schools and libraries connect to the Internet. Supported by fees added to consumers’ telephone bills, the program is under fire from Congress for alleged abuses ranging from simple paperwork and reporting errors to false […]

After two years of retrenchment, IT industries are showing some signs of resuming the “dynamic role” they played from 1996-2000, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Employment growth in IT industries and IT occupations, however, have yet to recover. Digital Economy 2003 is Commerce’s fifth annual report on the […]

Motorola is bringing on former Sun Microsystems President Edward Zander as its new chairman and chief executive officer, a move that brings an outsider to lead the former number one cell phone maker. The 56-year-old Zander takes over on Jan. 5 at a time when Motorola has slipped to third in handset revenues behind Nokia […]

President George W. Bush signed a landmark anti-spam bill into law Tuesday, setting into motion the first national standards for sending bulk unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE). Bush signed the bill ahead of a planned event with Federal Trade Commission Chairman Tim Muris, who was slated to appear in a “Ask the White House” online discussion […]

U.S. Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, which has no state sales tax, has added his support to the growing movement in Congress to tax online sales. Over the weekend, Carper said growing untaxed online sales are creating an unfair advantage for Web retailers over brick-and-mortar merchandisers. Delaware has long drawn shoppers from nearby states looking […]

Contradicting lurid testimony at several congressional hearings earlier this year, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) insists that pornography available on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is “not necessarily” more dangerous than what is readily available on Web sites. In a letter to Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, director of Information Management Issues at the GAO Linda […]

Virginia authorities arrested and charged a North Carolina man Thursday morning with four felony counts of using deceptive routing information in sending bulk commercial e-mail. The indictments are the first felonies in the country to be levied against a spammer under Virginia’s tough new anti-spam law. Jeremy Jaynes, 29, was arrested in Raleigh and is […]

A sobbing John Zuccarini pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to 49 counts of using domain names to direct minors to sexually explicit content. The former millionaire Web scam operator is the first person convicted under the Truth in Domain Names Act, a new law that makes it a crime to use a misleading Web address to […]

Two Florida mortgage spam scam operators agreed Wednesday to post $1 million bonds before sending any more unsolicited commercial e-mail as part of a settlement deal with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The bonds are to guarantee the two will not engage in any further misrepresentations in the advertising or sales of any goods or […]

Stung by criticism over whether its e-voting technology is sound, Diebold Election Systems joined with five other electronic voting machine manufacturers Tuesday to “identify and address security concerns” about the industry. Under the auspices of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), a Washington-based technology trade group, Diebold, Advanced Voting Systems, Election Systems & Software, […]

ARLINGTON, Va. — The terrorist attack on the Pentagon two years ago convinced the military to accelerate its transition to IPv6 , the new version of the Internet Protocol (IP) currently being reviewed by standards bodies. John L. Osterholz, the Pentagon’s director of architecture and interoperability, told several hundred attendees at the U.S. IPv6 Summit […]