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Timothy Muris jumps on board the FTC train as new chairman, striving to make sense of the privacy and antitrust issues that have been occupying the commission.
European antitrust regulators on Tuesday approved Google's US$3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick, which Google's CEO said will mean job cuts.
A prominent anti-virus vendor has described the latest email fraud scheme targeted at Westpac bank customers as the most "devious" the company has ever encountered.
Telstra has struck out at America Online (AOL) after the US giant inadvertently black-banned e-mails originating from BigPond users.
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We need to get the facts straight about identity theft and the Internet and stop scaring consumers away from the antidote to a US$47 billion national problem in the U.S.
In what could prove to be one of the great second acts in Internet history, erstwhile king of spam Sanford Wallace takes centre stage this week as exhibit A in a federal crackdown on invasive online advertising software.
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The first test version of the new email software blocks external content in Web-based email.
Web surfers battling "spyware" face a new problem: So-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase.
Microsoft has disclosed technical information vital to allowing third-party developers create software that works well with Windows.
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