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January 23, 2001 |
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E2 Communications Expands Operations in U.S and Latin America |
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E-mail marketing solutions provider e2 Communications yesterday expanded its operations to help Internet marketers in the United States and abroad reach Latin American markets. Dallas-based e2 Communications said it would create a team of marketers to focus on the emerging market, handling issues like translations, legal obstacles and cultural marketing. The company also said that Raquel Pancer, senior director for Latin American operations and a native Colombian, would lead the marketing team ... »
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January 22, 2001 |
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F-Secure Warns of E-Mail Worm |
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JAN 22, 2001, M2 Communications - The security technology company F-Secure Corp has issued a warning to computer users about an e-mail worm currently spreading globally. The Melissa.W worm, a version of the first mass e-mail virus Melissa, is spreading in an attachment called Anniv.doc. Although the attachment is in Microsoft Word 2001 for Macintosh format, the worm will also affect users of older versions of Word on both Macintosh and Windows systems ... »
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January 22, 2001 |
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Using E-Mail Means Coping with Crush of Cyberjunk |
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Upon returning from a one-week trip, Victoria Soares, senior public relations manager for Sprint PCS in Las Vegas, spent a full work day catching up on the more than 300 e-mails she had waiting for her. She expected a slew of messages. Before she went on her vacation, Soares had to empty the "in" box on her e-mail system to ensure there was enough room for all of the messages that would come during her absence ... »
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January 22, 2001 |
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DMers: No Gold in E-Mail List Prospecting |
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Though spam's high profile would lead one to believe that marketers are e-mailing everyone in sight, traditional catalogers are avoiding e-mail prospecting in droves. The reasons, catalogers claim, are few quality files and high prices. "E-mail will be a bigger factor when better e-mail files are available to marketers," said Lynn Wunderman, CEO of co-op database marketing firm I-Behavior, Harrison, NY ... »
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January 21, 2001 |
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Surfers headed to Yahoo.com, Microsoft.com, went to MyDomain.com instead |
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A computer glitch is being blamed for cutting off Web traffic headed for Yahoo.com and Microsoft.com on Saturday. For about 12 hours, thousands of Internet users trying to visit those two popular Web sites and dozens of others were instead sent to a Web page owned by MyDomains.com. The president of the Web hosting company, Richard Lau, said he was “a little bit in shock at the ease with which this has gotten out of control.” He added that the episode proves a computer criminal could “easily” hijack all traffic on a part of the Internet. ... »
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January 20, 2001 |
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E-mails Key in Stripper-Scheme Case |
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One of the men charged with bringing seven Russian women to Anchorage as cultural dancers, then turning them into strippers, tried to erase months of e-mail correspondence with his co-defendants. But he didn't do it right, the prosecution said in federal court Friday. As a result, the government has up to 1,000 pages of incriminating evidence against Tony Kennard, said assistant U.S. Attorney Dan Cooper on Friday as he argued against releasing Kennard to a third-party custodian ... »
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January 19, 2001 |
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Telstra reassures customers over e-mail virus |
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Telstra has reassured its Bigpond Internet customers over a computer virus that has been circulated through a Telstra e-mail.Telstra Bigpond's public affairs manager Stuart Gray says the service had to be shut down last night as technicians worked to remove the virus from Telstra's e-mail system ... »
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January 19, 2001 |
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Column: It's hard to junk all those pesky e-mail pitches |
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The first thing I do when I start up my office computer is delete the dozens of unsolicited business opportunities, corny jokes, satellite dish pitches, and offers to put me politically in touch with "the truth." It's not uncommon for 60 of these e-mails to await me in the morning — everything from elixir salesmen to the constant right-wing rantings of a guy from Jupiter. ... »
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January 19, 2001 |
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eMarketer: E-mail marketing — the perils of spam |
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Will spam turn consumers away from e-mail marketing entirely? eMarketer senior analyst Jonathan Jackson reviews the current spam-marketing situation in the US Spam: it's been around almost as long as e-mail. In the same way telemarketers quickly discovered nefarious uses for the telephone, unscrupulous direct marketers looked on the advent of e-mail as heaven sent. In a delicious blend of euphemism and acronym, the direct marketing industry has renamed spam UCE or unsolicited commercial e-mail. Junk by any other name will still clog your inbox. ... »
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January 19, 2001 |
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Mac users hit by Melissa macro virus |
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The infamous Melissa virus, which caused so much mayhem among the world's Windows users a couple of years ago, has struck again. And this time the targets are Mac users ... »
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