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A 21-year-old Oregon man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty this week for his role in launching a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on eBay in 2003. Anthony Scott Clark admitted in a San Jose, Calif., federal court late Tuesday afternoon that he and unnamed associates coordinated a network of […]

Spam purveyors are using increasingly sophisticated methods to prey on e-mail users, according to AOL’s third annual Top 10 Spam messages list. According to the Dulles, Va.-based AOL, its 2005 analysis of hundreds of billions of attempted spam messages targeting its global e-mail customers finds that spammers are using more “special-order” style subject lines. Instead […]

The markets rebounded Wednesday on news of increased consumer confidence. But investors remained cautious, as oil prices climbed, and tech stocks remained flat. After falling to a two-month low on Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 18.49 points higher on Wednesday to close at 10796.26. The NASDAQ Composite Index rose 2.05 to 2.228.94. Stock […]

Clearing federal agencies out of spectrum earmarked for advanced commercial wireless services will cost approximately $936 million, according to data released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The costs and timelines transmitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pave the way for an FCC auction of some of the nation’s most valuable airwaves as […]

Microsoft is adding McAfee’s virus scan and firewall software to its MSN dial-up service package. McAfee already provides the software for Microsoft’s broadband customers. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based McAfee said the service would be available for Microsoft’s dial-up customers in the first quarter of next year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Specifically, MSN […]

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sent out something less than a cheerful Christmas jingle to major music publishers: subpoenas. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week, Warner Music Group disclosed that it had received subpoenas regarding the pricing of digital music downloads. Apparently, WMG wasn’t the only music publisher to receive […]

E-mail faces significant challenges from real time communications, spam and bugs and viruses, according to a new report from IDC. For e-mail to retain its status as the dominant form of electronic communication, e-mail solution providers and their customers must uphold the high value of e-mail while reducing the associated costs and risks, the report […]

Legislation to level the taxation playing field for all in-store, catalog and online retailers is back on the table in Congress. One bill, sponsored by Republican Mike Enzi of Wyoming, would grant congressional approval to a national compact negotiated among state governments to streamline and simplify more than 7,500 diverse sales tax laws among state […]

UPDATED: The U.S. Senate today finally approved Feb. 17, 2009, as the last day of analog broadcasting in the United States, setting the stage to complete the country’s digital television (DTV) transition. As part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, the DTV transition is expected to raise billions from wireless broadband providers when the […]

WASHINGTON — The much maligned CAN-SPAM Act is having some effect on reducing unsolicited e-mail two years after its passage, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) insisted Tuesday. In issuing its annual report to Congress on the effectiveness of the law, the FTC said the overall volume of spam has begun to decrease, although the agency […]

Texas’s largest electricity supplier will implement broadband over power lines (BPL) in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, making it the nation’s most ambitious BPL project to date. TXU Electric Delivery, a subsidiary of TXU Corp. , said Monday it is teaming with Maryland-based Current Communications Group to overlay a broadband delivery system on its Texas […]

U.S. Senate and House negotiators finally agreed late Sunday on the final details of legislation to complete the country’s digital television (DTV) transition. The deal clears the way to move broadcasters out of their analog spectrum and auction off the space to wireless broadband providers. Under the compromise agreement, lawmakers set Feb. 17, 2009, as […]