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  • Intel hit with antitrust investigation in US

    Intel's business practices will come under the scrutiny of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which has opened a formal antitrust investigation of the chipmaker.

  • U.S. Senate approves anti-spam bill

    The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday for a historic antispam bill, capping more than six years of failed congressional attempts to enact a federal law restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail.

  • Australia signs up with US and UK in spam fight

    Australian communication bodies signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with agencies in the United States and the UK in Washington yesterday as part of the latest international effort against spam.

  • UPDATE: Will U.S. Federal law can spam?

    UPDATE: President Bush signed the "Can-Spam" bill Tuesday, creating the first federal law regulating spam, a move backers say will be a major step in the war against e-mail solicitations for pornography, Viagra, diet pills, get-rich-quick schemes and the like.

  • US presidential election 2008: Hillary Clinton talks tech

    Iraq, immigration, taxes, and healthcare probably have been the four most pressing topics of the 2008 US presidential campaign. IT has made nary an appearance -- so what do the candidates think on the subject of technology?

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