Grant Gross

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If you're feeling overwhelmed by information overload lately, you may not be alone. The amount of new information stored on various media such as hard drives has doubled in the past three years, to five exabytes of new information produced in 2002, according to a study released late last month by the University of California, Berkeley.

The U.S. Senate failed to vote on a bill that would permanently ban Internet-only taxes after several senators raised questions about whether the bill would take current tax revenues away from states and local governments.

A U.S. House of Representatives member proposed Thursday that the U.S. Congress require every computer to have antivirus software installed, but IT security experts disagreed with that suggestion and other ways for the government to encourage cybersecurity among private companies and individual users.

The antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) needs to be amended because it doesn't ensure competition between Microsoft and its rivals, the state of Massachusetts and an IT industry group argued Tuesday.

On one hand, U.S. businesses need to protect their trade secrets because national security is tied closely to economic security, but on the other hand encryption might be helping criminals hide their secrets, Louis Freeh former director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), told a gathering of cybersecurity experts Monday.

Microsoft Corp. has settled antitrust class action lawsuits with five states and the District of Columbia, the company announced.

A bill attempting to regulate the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail passed the U.S. Senate last week, but many antispam advocates say the bill would have little impact on the amount of spam coming into e-mail users' in-boxes.