Much of today's new technology is aimed at increasing productivity and making better use of our time. Despite the arguments that highlight conflicts between RIP and data protection and human rights legislation, the sacking of employees for email...
For some reason, spam is treated differently and many countries across the region still operate an 'opt-out' requirement where individuals can be sent as much junk mail as a sender likes until they opt out.
While IT managers and directors believe their role is becoming more strategic this could just be a case of personal perspective. Plan B for content providers It seems that advertisers have finally cottoned on to the idea that web traffic is not as...
Such a tax would undoubtedly generate charges of 'censorship' from some of an unrealistically liberal mindset but many ordinary email users would pay happily to remove the existing scourge of spam. However, a tax levied at a rate of only a dollar...
Various national legal regimes are trying to control spam. Other mobile providers are seeking to deploy filtering services on their appliances to defeat the growth of spam. Vodafone, for example, will also provide a feature to forward spam to...
But the problem is worse than lost productivity - spam emails are actually now the favoured form for transmitting viruses around networks. Once a problem at the consumer level, spam is now a corporate nuisance.