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December 21, 2000 |
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Lawyers behind intimate e-mail chain letter keep jobs |
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LONDON, Dec 22 (AFP) - Young British lawyers who leaked a friend's intimate e-mail and watched with horror as it snowballed around the world will not be fired, their employer said late Thursday. International legal firm Norton Rose said in a statement that it had "disciplined but not dismissed" the five lawyers who set the saucy e-mail snowballing around the globe at a furious pace ... »
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December 20, 2000 |
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Bosses Blow Top Over Claire Swire Email |
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A number of employers have, or are considering, suspending staff over the distribution of a sexually explicit email featuring the exploits of the now legendary Claire Swire and Bradley Chait. Bosses have apparently found having their firm's name associated with the email difficult to swallow - resulting in action against staff who helped distribute it. ... »
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December 19, 2000 |
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Internet Makes Steamy E-Mails (F)Risky Business |
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By MICHELLE GOTTHELF and TODD VENEZIA IT'S the classic e-mail horror story: The most intimate details of a night of passion - sent in a private message - are forwarded to millions all over the world. That's the high-tech nightmare a young London woman and her boyfriend have found themselves in after he foolishly forwarded her graphic e-mail to friends at work ... »
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December 19, 2000 |
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Responsys.com Launches E-Mail Database |
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Online direct marketing firm Responsys.com, Palo Alto, CA, last week launched Responsys Acquire, a database that it said contains more than 120 million opt-in e-mail addresses. The service enables marketers to acquire customers faster and more cheaply than through traditional offline techniques, according to the company ... »
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December 19, 2000 |
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ValueClick Snaps Up E-mail Signup Network |
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Pay-for-performance ad network ValueClick aims to boost its customer acquisition offerings through the acquisition of Z Media, Inc., the company said Monday. ValueClick is paying shareholders of Redwood City, Calif.-based Z Media about 2.7 million shares of VCLK, valued at about $11.7 million at the time of the agreement's signing ... »
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December 18, 2000 |
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VeriSign Error Releases Customer E-Mail Addresses |
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) One of the Internet's best-known security and identity firms, VeriSign Inc. in Mountain View, Calif., last week accidentally released a list of more than 5,000 customer e-mail addresses.
"It was an administrative error," said VeriSign spokesman Christopher Clough. He added that VeriSign discovered the mistake Wednesday and immediately began contacting the 1,000 people who received the list as an attachment to an e-mail announcing a branding change. This list - which included 5,435 e-mail addresses of customers of Intuit Inc.'s QuickBooks Merchant Account Service - had no other identifying information and didn't include any financial data. VeriSign provides payment service for QuickBooks customers ... »
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December 18, 2000 |
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VeriSign Error Releases Customer E-Mail Addresses |
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One of the Internet's best-known security and identity firms, VeriSign Inc. in Mountain View, Calif., last week accidentally released a list of more than 5,000 customer e-mail addresses ... »
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December 18, 2000 |
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Insurer Suspends Staff Over Smutty Email |
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Insurance group Royal & SunAlliance has suspended some 40 employees from its Liverpool office after they accidentally emailed a smutty image to a director. No one was fired following the incident, but about 40 workers have been indefinitely suspended after what is believed to be a doctored image of popular cartoon character Bart Simpson fell into the wrong hands ... »
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December 18, 2000 |
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Ford Test-Drives E-Mail Marketing in California |
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Under a plan to begin selling cars online to Californians sometime in the first quarter of 2001 and eventually to roll out the service nationwide, Ford Motor Co. has begun a multimedia e-mail campaign promoting its Escape 2001 sport utility vehicle. ... »
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December 18, 2000 |
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24/7 Freecall pledges refunds |
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24/7 Freecall has pledged to refund Net users who've been booted off the service even though they had paid for the service. In yet another U-turn, Sal Abdin, the head of 24/7 Freecall, told The Register that all those affected would received a refund - even though the ISP originally said it would not reimburse people ... »
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