Responding to complaints that the Microsoft Network is allowing spammers to relay junk e-mail through MSN servers, the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) has added several MSN systems to its notorious anti-spam blacklist. The action could potentially...

The U.S. District Court ordered the immediate shutdown of a Web site owned by a European spam outfit for bilking more than $1 million from customers, Federal Trade Commission officials announced Monday.

The seven werpetrators agreed to settle charges that they were spamming consumers with deceptive chain letters. Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed.

Ryan Naraine's article: "With eyes firmly fixed on winning the approval of the Web developer community, search technology favorite Google has launched a Web API service using the SOAP and WSDL standards."

Daily columns covering products, technologies, and industry advancements that affect the Web development community.

Independent projects are bringing Ruby to 2 widely-used development frameworks; reactions of Sun, Microsoft. Internetnews.com.

The World Wide Web Consortium reaches cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language for expressing Web site privacy policies.

ASP news wire from internet.com.

News of Mozilla 1.0's release.

The desktop Linux advocate boasts a new partnership in Japan with Japanese ISP EDGE to sell LindowsOS in Japan for home, work, education uses; and assures customers Lindows has nothing to fear from SCO. [InternetNews]