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The Motley Fool January 26, 2004 Selena Maranjian	An End to Spam? We may be rejoicing in 2006, thanks to Bill Gates. Gates alluded to a "magic solution" that his team is working on to address the problem of unwanted email, or spam. Better still, he expects this solution to be in place soon.
InternetNews January 23, 2004 Colin Haley	AOL Settles Playboy Suit After suffering a legal setback last week, the ISP settles a trademark suit by Hugh Hefner's adult entertainment empire.
InternetNews January 23, 2004 Ryan Naraine	FTC: Online Fraud Losses Hit $437M Using stolen identities, fake Internet auctions and fraudulent shop-at-home schemes, online swindlers robbed Americans of a whopping $437.5 million in 2003.
InternetNews January 23, 2004 Janis Mara	Can-Spam Conference: How to Comply with a "Total Failure" Experts slammed Can-Spam at Spam and the Law conference -- while helping marketers comply with the act.
InternetNews January 22, 2004 Jim Wagner	E-Voting Experts SERVE Up Controversy Report calls for dismantling an e-voting experiment by the Department of Defense.
InternetNews January 22, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Cisco Warns of Voice Product Security Flaws A repair script is released to fix a security flaw that leaves TCP and UDP ports open to malicious attack.
InternetNews January 22, 2004 Pamela Parker	AOL Implements Anti-Spoofing Technology The ISP wants recipients of e-mail from aol.com to know it's really from AOL.
InternetNews January 21, 2004 Roy Mark	RIAA Files 532 New Lawsuits The music industry files its largest batch of copyright infringement actions to date.
InternetNews January 21, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Sun Cluster Vulnerable to OpenSSL Flaw Systems running Sun Cluster 3.x with SunPlex Manager configured are at risk of takeover because of known OpenSSL vulnerabilities.
AFP eWire January 20, 2004	Anti-Spam Law Expected to Have Little Impact on Charities While some questions remain regarding its implementation, the Can-Spam bill (S. 877) signed by President Bush late last year should have little impact on most charities.
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