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U.S. gamblers holding accounts with BetonSports, the beleaguered London-based online betting site, are not likely to see their money any time soon. The site shut down its U.S. operations earlier this month in the aftermath of a 22-count indictment charging BetonSports and 11 individuals with racketeering, conspiracy and fraud, including failing to pay federal wagering […]

The former operator of a “massive for-profit” pirated software Web site was sentenced to six years in prison today and ordered to pay restitution of $4.1 million. Danny Ferrer, 37, of Lakeland, Fla., pleaded guilty in June to one count of conspiracy and one count of criminal copyright infringement for selling pirated software. According to […]

AT&T opened a new line of legal attack Wednesday on data brokers selling unauthorized telephone records over the Internet. In a lawsuit filed in San Antonio, Texas, the company sued 25 “John Doe” defendants it claims used fraudulent means to gain access to confidential customer information. AT&T’s suit seeks an immediate injunction to halt the […]

Worldwide spending on Internet access, both broadband and dial-up, hit $113.3 billion in 2005 and is projected to top more than $200 billion by 2009, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association’s (TIA) latest forecast. According to the TIA, broadband access will drive equipment revenue in the next four years as countries move to more actively […]

Being an Internet phenomenon is one thing. Making money is another. YouTube, the enormously successful amateur video site, has no problem bringing in the eyeballs, delivering more than 100 million video views a day. But bringing advertisers to those viewers, however, is an altogether different challenge. And that’s where the redoubtable Paris Hilton comes in. […]

Lawmakers should proceed cautiously on passing laws involving network neutrality, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras said today. Speaking at the Progress and Freedom Foundation’s annual summer conference in Aspen, Colo., Majoras announced she was forming an Internet Access Task Force to study convergence issues with a focus on network neutrality. Calling network […]

German chipmaker Infineon is the winning bidder to supply security chips for the new U.S. e-passports, which the Department of State began issuing earlier this month. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. E-Passports contain an individual’s biographic information and a digital photograph. The Infineon chip, embedded in the back cover of the document, contains […]

Parents, it appears, are talking to their children about Internet safety. Parents, it seems, are taking responsibility for what their children do and see online. The results, according to two new studies, are encouraging and speak volumes about the disconnect between Washington and the rest of America. According to a new national poll commissioned by […]

Betonsports.com is folding its U.S. hand. With the British-based company named in a 22-count indictment for violating American gambling laws and its former CEO sitting in a St. Louis jail, BetonSports said Friday it was permanently cutting off access to its site for U.S. bettors. The site has been dark for American online gamblers since […]

U.S. Senate minority leader Harry Reid wasted little time finding fault with the Veterans Administration’s (VA) latest security breach, calling for the resignation of VA Secretary Jim Nicholson. Earlier this week, the VA reported a desktop computer with personal information on as many as 38,000 veterans is missing from a VA subcontractor’s office. “Enough is […]

A Salt Lake City man is facing up to 15 years in prison for redirecting and reading the e-mail of his former employer. William K. Dobson, 55, was charged Wednesday with two counts of intercepting electronic communications and one count of illegally obtaining information from a protected computer. If convicted, Dobson faces a maximum term […]

Three former Comverse Technology executives are facing criminal and civil charges for fraudulently backdating millions of stock options. Former CEO Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, former CFO David Kreinberg and former General Counsel William F. Sorin were charged Wednesday with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud. Kreinberg and Sorin are expected to make […]