• AOL Opens E-Mail to Other Programs (CBS MarketWatch)
    You can now read AOL e-mail in Outlook or Eudora. "It's about choice," Roy Ben-Joseph, AOL's director of e-mail products told the Washington Post. "It's about giving our members the ability to access their e-mail through any mechanism they choose." The key is AOL's addition of an IMAP e-mail server, developed in the 1980s, and designed to help people check multiple e-mail accounts on one machine.
  • FTC Takes On Spyware (ClickZ)
    At today's Federal Trade Commission workshop on spyware and adware, Commissioner Mozelle Thompson charged "the industry" to return to the FTC with best practices for quelling the problem. The commissioner did not specify which of the many industries represented at the forum should spearhead such an effort.
  • 'Phishing' Scams Luring More Users (CNET)
    The number of "phishing" e-mails circulating on the Web has increased from 279 to 215,643 over the past six months, according to e-mail security company MessageLabs.
  • The News, One Entry at a Time (Wired)
    Blogs are giving a voice to many people, including former journalists, who have been shut out by the mainstream media, said bloggers meeting last weekend at Harvard University.
  • Invading Our Virtual Space (CBS MarketWatch)
    The hullabaloo over Google's attempt to advertise to you based on reading your e-mail is absurdly overblown. If you don't like it: don't sign up for it.
  • Broadband Use Increases Sharply (Reuters)
    More than half of U.S. Internet users now surf the Web over a high-speed connection as home users signed up in droves for the faster service in the past year, according to a report released Sunday.
  • PCs 'Infested' With Spy Programs (BBC)
    The average computer is packed with hidden software that can secretly spy on online habits, a study has found.
  • Snap, Crackle, Pow Go the Internet Ads (Los Angeles Times)
    Republicans and Democrats heaped more criticism on one another in a pair of Internet attack ads released late last week.
  • DoubleClick Pulls a Nokia (TheStreet.com)
    The Internet advertising market is growing, but DoubleClick isn't keeping pace. Though all systems are go industrywide -- and Internet bellwether Yahoo! is blowing past financial estimates -- DoubleClick's earnings disappointment late Thursday is confirming the doubts of its critics and testing the patience of its fans.
  • Ford Slams Internet Ad Depicting Cat Killed By Car Roof (AP)
    The Ford Motor Co. is upset by the release of an Internet commercial that depicts a computer generated cat being decapitated, saying it did not authorize the proposed ad or its release.
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