Stories about: US Federal Trade Commission

Selling the tools used by spammers is easy money, at least until you get caught. Just ask Adam Sweaney, a man charged with computer fraud who took the stand at the sentencing hearing in Seattle for Robert Soloway, the so-called spam king.

Google's acquisition of DoubleClick does not pose a significant threat to competition in the European online advertising market, the European Commission said this week. However, it reminded the companies that they also have an obligation to respect European Union legislation on the privacy of personal data, one of the grounds on which opponents lobbied to block the merger.

Intel has notified hardware developers that it placed two chipsets based on memory technology from Rambus Inc. on a product discontinuance schedule, setting a date for the end of Intel's association with Rambus' current memory technology.

If last week's US Federal Trade Commission Spam Forum could be reduced to a single soundbyte, it is Commissioner Orson Swindle's declaration that "email is the killer app of the Internet, and spam is killing the killer app."