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A mail filtering company claims spammers are preying on the paranoia of parents and spouses by promoting "spyware" software.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve antispam legislation that could end more than six years of failed attempts to create a federal law restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail.
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The president of media giant News Corp warns that the Internet has become a "moral-free zone," with the medium's future threatened by pornography, spam and rampant piracy.
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Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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