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Jan. 12, 2004 – A week after the first federal spam law went into effect, anti-spam companies and Internet service providers report seeing little change in the amount of spam intercepted. For example, 80 percent of the e-mail processed in mid-December by Postini, an e-mail security firm, was spam compared with 84 percent in the first […]

Strategies for Finding the Value in e-Business Investments Online transactions, the darling of the go-go 1990s and the venture capital explosion, still account for a tiny fraction of the business done between businesses and consumers. Business-to-consumer transactions amount to about $20 billion, less than 1 percent of total retail activity, according to a December Brookings […]

Book Title: Starting an Online Business (For Dummies) (4th Edition) (Paperback) by Greg Holden Editorial Reviews: Book Description So you want to own your own business, be your own boss, set your own hours, and make real money. If you’re comfortable with computers and have a marketable idea, service, or product, this guide will help […]

Child pornography and the Internet in the U.S. In the case of electronic or computer transmission, it is a federal offense to knowingly receive child pornography, including the use of computers. However up until 1996, pseudo photographs (pictures created by computers and don’t use real children) are exempt from child pornography laws. These pseudo photographs […]

July 7, 2005 ST. PETERSBURG, Florida – Police have arrested a man for using someone else’s wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice. Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree […]

The U.S. Constitution and state and federal statutes and regulations play important roles in addressing the various legal issues that arise when adults try to protect children from what is considered inappropriate sexually explicit material or experiences on the Internet. What’s Regulated? It’s difficult to wrap a legal arm around the concept of “pornography” because […]