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The U.S. Senate formally approved the negotiated House-Senate version of the Can Spam Act Tuesday afternoon, unanimously approving the nation’s first national anti-spam legislation. The legislation now returns to the U.S. House, where passage is expected in early December, to reconcile “technical” differences. Saturday morning the House approved a modified version of the anti-spam legislation […]

Calling congressional critics “sincere but misinformed,” the principal trade group of the peer-to-peer (P2P) network industry hopes to meet in person with U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham (R.-SC) and other lawmakers who are considering legislation to regulate P2P activity. On Friday, Graham sent a letter co-signed by five other senators calling on the P2Ps to “adhere […]

The United States Senate expects to pass before Thanksgiving the House anti-spam bill, which would lead to the creation of the first national law aimed at slowing the glut of unsolicited commercial e-mail. The White House indicated over the weekend President Bush will sign the bill and its effective date will be Jan. 1, 2004. […]

The U.S. House of Representatives approved an anti-spam bill early Saturday morning that mandates commercial e-mailers provide consumers with an opt-out mechanism. The bill, which pre-empts 37 existing state anti-spam bills, calls for a national Do-Not-Spam registry, and contains provisions to limit wireless unsolicited commercial e-mail. The new legislation would go into effect when signed […]

U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D.-MA) introduced legislation Thursday to allow cell phone customers to choose at no cost to not have their numbers listed in a national wireless directory. Although there is currently no such service, the wireless industry hopes to roll out directories next year similar to the landline 411 call assistance service. The […]

Federal authorities have rounded up and arrested more than 125 individuals on charges including identity theft and computer intrusion as part of a nationwide crackdown on Internet crime, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday. The ongoing dragnet, known as Operation Cyber Sweep, is targeting a variety of online economic crimes involving fraud, software piracy […]

The U.S. Senate has approved $3.7 billion over the next four years for nanotechnology research and development. The emerging science is the top inter-agency R&D priority in the Bush Administration’s fiscal 2004 proposed budget, excluding medical and military projects. Nanotechnology refers to the ability of scientists and engineers to work with matter at the atomic […]

The U.S. Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) will partner with grid computing software developer Platform Computing to build a job management environment for all users of the DoD’s shared HPCMP resource centers across the United States. The project extends the work Platform and DoD undertook two years ago to link nine […]

WASHINGTON — With House and Senate leaders hoping to close this year’s congressional session on Friday (Wednesday at the latest), debates over other issues may not allow time to pass legislation on spam, or the Internet access tax moratorium, which expired Nov. 1. Negotiators have unsuccessfully met for weeks to resolve differences on the Internet […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) will no longer do business with PC Connection’s government contracting subsidiary, GovConnection, because of questions about purchasing procedures. For the first nine months of this year, the GSA contract resulted in $56 million in revenue for PC Connection out of $954.5 million total sales for the period. The Merrimack, N.H.-based […]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and other Department of Treasury agencies, continue to have “material weaknesses” in security controls designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of their systems, a new General Accounting Office (GAO) report concludes. According to the GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, the security weaknesses and inconsistent implementation of security […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened up more spectrum for unlicensed use Thursday, adding an additional 225 megahertz in the 5 gigahertz range for wireless networking services. The agency also initiated a new proposal for measuring spectrum interference. According to the FCC, the additional available spectrum will allow continued growth in wireless broadband services, including […]