Email spam may be the least of our worries. According to Forrester Research there will 100% compound annual growth in enhanced message services, multimedia message services, instant message services and e-mail using next generation phones in 2004 and beyond. Much of this, according to it- analysis, will be little more than spam. Although the article … Read more
An independent reviewer of anti-spam tools I hadn’t heard of called Spamotomy has awarded its highest rating ever for a desktop anti-spam product to InBoxer from Audiotrieve, which I also haven’t heard of. And I thought I was on top of the whole spam thing. The Spamotomy review, apparently, is the result of an … Read more
Here’s another bit of good news for the war on rubbish cluttering the Internet. Anti-spam activist Nigel Featherston has won a $250,000 default judgment in Washington State against a spam organization in Ohio known for sending millions of spam emails. This, according to his lawyers, could be one of the largest anti-spam awards in the … Read more
Bad news for those of you who hate pop-up ads: A U.S. federal judge has rejected a lawsuit by truck and trailer rental company U-Haul which sought to ban software by Internet advertising company WhenU that launched rival pop-up ads when customers access U-Haul’s Web site, Reuters reports. The judge said the ads don’t … Read more
You know that spam has hit the big time when it gets its own website. Well, a corner of one: PCWorld.com yesterday released Spam Watch, a new section of its web site dedicated to the latest news, tips and tools in the war against online junk mail. PC World Spam Watch also features “Spam Slayer,” … Read more