Frazzled households jam anti-telemarketing site
News Some states have seen 40 percent of landline telephone users sign up for anti-telemarketing registries in their regions. A crush of consumers rushed a federal Web site launched on Friday to let people opt out of telemarketing calls, crippling the...
[June 30, 2003, 10:00]
'Do-not-spam' may not pass go
News Now the do-not-call project is on the defensive as the telemarketing industry wages a legal assault that claims the list is a violation of the US Constitution's guarantee of free expression. The ATA estimates that the do-not-call list will cost as...
[July 30, 2003, 11:30]
Americans demand anti-spam register
News Americans overwhelmingly support a do-not-spam list, according to a new study released on Wednesday by privacy consultant and anti-spam software seller ePrivacy Group. It was released during a press conference by Senator Charles Schumer, sponsor of...
[July 24, 2003, 11:20]
Spam, will it ever end?
News Proposals for the forthcoming E-Commerce Bill are that spam should be treated like unsolicited telemarketing and that only those who sign up to an "anti-spam register" should be immune. A week after a Hong Kong court freed a self-confessed spammer...
[August 11, 1999, 17:20]
A Year Ago: Spam, will it ever end?
News Proposals for the forthcoming E-Commerce Bill are that spam should be treated like unsolicited telemarketing and that only those who sign up to an "anti-spam register" should be immune. Ever been spammed?
[August 12, 2000, 7:07]
Netscape pain could mean free Communicator
News James Barksdale said that the company was already well on the way to a more efficient model of doing business, saying telemarketing and telesales are already outsourced. Barksdale once again claimed that Microsoft's aggressive tactics are "illegal...
[January 6, 1998, 10:01]
EC: A Q&A on the Microsoft decision
News Both parts of the Commission's case are based on a consistent pattern of Court jurisprudence (interoperability: inter alia, Commercial Solvents, Telemarketing, Magill, and tying: inter alia, Hilti and Tetra Pak).
[March 24, 2004, 11:20]
DTI launches new anti-fraud Web site
News The Department for Trade and Industry has launched an online service to help people protect themselves from scams A new section of the consumerdirect website, launched on 18 October 2004, will provide regularly updated information on specific rip...
[October 18, 2004, 16:15]
