Junk faxes to be legalized as &quot;opt-out?&quot;
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The Register ran a story on August 6th called 'Phone spam misery looms stateside.' It seems that there's legislative nastiness underway in Washington, DC to essentially gut the existing junk fax law, and replace it with a marketer's wet dream.
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Sunday, September 2 is the deadline for ISO member countries to vote on Microsoft's Office OpenXML -- the result will determine if it's approved as an international standard. Name calling, finger pointing and muckraking have sparked a debate over current standards-approval procedures and how they're affected by corporate influence. All this excitement over office docs?
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2004  - The US Postal Service has asked Los Angeles-based Stamps.com Inc. to end a market test and stop taking orders for its PhotoStamps program, which allows customers to print
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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Opt-out button in spam used to run exploit
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and who hasn&#39;t - there&#39;s help on the way. SBC will roll out a new service today for consumers that allows access to any and all messages they may receive: voice mail, e-mail, fax or other.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Anyone stupid enough to do a computer's bidding is not losing civil liberties so much as their marbles.
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Until federal regulators issued a landmark ruling in 1968, Americans could not own the telephones in their homes, nor attach answering machines or other devices to them. Now, a growing number of academics and consumer activists say it's time to deliver a similar ground-breaking jolt to the cellphone industry, possibly triggering a new round of customer options and technical innovations to rival the one that produced faxes, modems and the Internet....
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Virginia's law banning the massive distribution of junk e-mail is an unconstitutional barrier to free speech, a lawyer for a former spammer told the state's highest court Wednesday.
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Spam that includes sexually oriented content viewable in the e-mail message violates the &quot;brown paper wrapper&quot; rules that are part of the CAN-SPAM law, as well as Federal Trade Commission rules.
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Two years ago, Bob Frankston wrote Why Settle for Just 1%? while in the midst of his ramp-up as a Verizon FiOS customer. The question is still on the table. I'd like us to help answer it by re-phrasing the question: What could we, as Linux developers and users, do with fiber to our homes and businesses?
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Ponders withdrawing support for non-stickered product
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WASHINGTON The Associated Press reports some details are coming out today about proposed federal rules for regional phone companies.
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States with restrictions or bans on recorded political phone calls:
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WASHINGTON - The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) plans to appeal a November decision by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prohibiting states from regulating VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) services, such as those offered by Vonage Holdings.
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Duff note Stock spammers have abandoned PDF files and image spam with a new campaign featuring MP3 files.â¦
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Online Gambling : Affiliate Party&#8217;s Over Last weekend the US Congress passed a bill which will outlaw Internet gambling in the United States. The new law will ensure that gamblers who try to enter online gambling sites from American IP addresses will be blocked and that the online gambling companies can no longer accept bets placed [...]