A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers... More...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) poisoning company MediaDefender suffered an embarrassing leak this weekend, when almost 700MB of internal company e-mail was distributed on the Internet via BitTorrent. The e-mails reveal many aspects of MediaDefender's elaborate P2P disruption... More...
Dutch telecommunications regulator OPTA has levied the largest fine against an unidentified spammer whom authorities say e-mailed more than 9 billion unwanted advertisements. The Netherlands outlawed spam in May 2004. The man is being charged... More...
Two unnamed South Korean computer programmers have been arrested on suspicion of sending out 1.6 billion spam e-mail messages between September and December last year in violation of the country's commerce laws. The two men,... More...
Criminal gangs using hijacked computers are behind a surge in unwanted e-mails peddling sex, drugs and stock tips. The number of "spam" messages has tripled since June and now accounts for as many as nine... More...
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, has announced that the "next stage" of the server software Exchange is to allow for the "pushing" of e-mails with the new version of the Windows Mobile operating system,... More...
Microsoft Corp. developed policies stressing the systematic destruction of internal e-mails and other documents crucial to lawsuits it has faced in recent years, a California software company alleges. Burst.com, in court papers... More...
The archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will contain 39,999,998 e-mails by the former president's staff and two by the man himself. "The only two he sent," Skip Rutherford, president of the... More...
A federal judge has ordered Microsoft to recover any deleted e-mails that may support charges from a streaming media company that the software giant stole its video-delivery technology, according to a recent hearing transcript. U.S.... More...
Microsoft's MSN Hotmail, a free Web-based e-mail service, has tightened restrictions on daily outbound messages sent by subscribers, a tactic it says will help curb spam. The Redmond, Wash.-based company on Friday said that Hotmail... More...
Dear Microsoft Beta Tester, Thank you for your interest in the Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 beta program. We are pleased to inform you that you have been approved to participate in the... More...
Who said government work was boring? At least six Washington state employees who used their e-mail to send raunchy jokes, sexual overtures and even make plans for an orgy will be fired,... More...
I know this is a little late, and hopefully you went over to Blizzard and signed up. But it case you didnt know Blizzard will be sending out the e-mails of thoes who got in... More...
Yahoo has struck a deal that will allow its users to spruce up text e-mails with video messages. Under the agreement with video technology company SpotLife, people using Yahoo Mail will be able to e-mail... More...
The Swedish car manufacturer has clamped down after workers sent each other inappropriate jokes and pictures of George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Fears of bad-taste humour following September's US terrorist... More...