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• Regulators go after wireless spam

  The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday set a late 2004 deadline to decide what, if anything, to do about unsolicited e-mails sent to mobile phones and other portable Internet-connected devices.

• 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 lawmakers: It's open season on spam

  Proposals to control the digital deluge in the US include a national "do not e-mail" list and criminal penalties for repeat offenders.

• Wireless data mining is watching you

  Data mining company DigiMine has introduced a service to track the behaviour of people who surf the Web from wireless devices, an innovation experts say could result in more targeted advertisements--or an overdose of annoying marketing pitches.

• Canning SMS spam

  Australia's telecommunications industry is determined to tackle the growing SMS spam epidemic on its own, but mobile users shouldn't expect relief from the annoyance until 2002.

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