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January 29, 2001 |
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Traditional Marketers to Spend $63 Billion Online by 2005 |
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Traditional advertisers will embrace multichannel online marketing and will spend $63 billion on it annually by 2005, according to a report by Forrester Research. Online advertising alone is expected to reach $42 billion worldwide by then ... »
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January 29, 2001 |
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Whitehall Email Warning After Attack on Comedian |
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Radical Channel 4 comedian, Mark Thomas, was called a "prat" and an "out and out nutter" in emails posted by Whitehall civil servants in a concerted smear campaign. Their emails, ordered to be released under the Data Protection Act, have resulted in the civil servants being warned by their bosses to be more cautious ... »
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January 28, 2001 |
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Hotmail not immune to viruses |
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The Hotmail virus scanner appears to be at least six versions behind. ZDNet.nl informed both Microsoft and McAfee about the vulnerability we had uncovered, so that they could update the virus definitions on the Hotmail servers. McAfee claims the problem is Microsoft's fault. According to a spokesperson for McAfee, Microsoft refuses to implement new virus updates ... »
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January 26, 2001 |
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Arrested Man Sent Threatening E-Mail to Murdered Woman: Police |
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A man in Gifu Prefecture was arrested Friday on suspicion of sending a threatening e-mail message to a female acquaintance before she was found murdered at her house earlier this month, police said. The police did not name the man, but said he is 39 and lives in the town of Kasamatsu in the central Japanese prefecture ... »
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January 26, 2001 |
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Brightmail Invades Europe in War Against Email ThreatsIsps in Europe And Asia |
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Brightmail, Inc., the leading provider of message filtering solutions, announced today that it has launched into the international marketplace, making the Brightmail Solution Suite immediately available to ISPs, ASPs, wireless providers and enterprises in Europe and Asia to protect email users from spam and other email-borne threats. The Brightmail Solution Suite is composed of the Brightmail Anti-Spam Solution and the Brightmail Anti-Virus Solution. Brightmail is preparing to announce two of Europe's leading ISPs as the its first international customers ... »
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January 26, 2001 |
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Mail Scammer Targets AOL Users |
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Investigators at America Online [NYSE:AOL] are attempting to track down a suspected scammer who sent e-mail this morning to an as-yet undetermined number of AOL subscribers informing them they had won a prize in a random selection. The e-mail, which reads, "Congratulations (You've won!)" was posted about 2 a.m. EST this morning and originates with a sender known as "Wooouuuu." ... »
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January 26, 2001 |
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*Report Says Online Marketers Will Pay to Send E-Mail |
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During the next two years, large Internet portals, Internet service providers and Web mail providers will begin charging online marketers for the large volume of e-mail being sent across the Web, according to a report from Jupiter Research. In 2005, advertisers will send 268 billion e-mail messages, 22 times the number of messages sent last year, Jupiter Research said. ISPs and e-mail service providers will see nearly 5.6 billion e-mail messages cross their networks for each 1 million subscribers ... »
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January 25, 2001 |
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ACCESS DENIED: MICROSOFT MIX-UP STOPS MILLIONS OF E-MAILS |
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A Microsoft worker has been blamed for stopping millions of e-mails being sent by internet users in the US and Europe. Hackers had initially been mooted as a possible source of the problem which for several hours hit the free Hotmail service, one of the most popular in the world run by the multi-million pound software giant ... »
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January 25, 2001 |
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Nuclear staff in lewd e-mail probe |
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Nine nuclear power station staff have been suspended and are being investigated over the distribution obscene e-mails. Staff at the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria were sent home on full pay while investigations continue into the distribution of offensive messages ... »
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January 25, 2001 |
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E-Mail Brings Politics to Workplace |
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Like many Americans, pediatrician Kenneth Rafal got caught up in the presidential election drama. So, when he got an e-mail petition last month calling for an end to the Florida recount, he forwarded it to many of the 245 employees at the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based medical practice group he leads ... »
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