Google Calls on Gmail Users to Report Spam

9 March 2007

Google Calls on Gmail Users to Report SpamInformationWeek, NY – Mar 8, 2007

The SEC on Thursday suspended stock trading for 35 companies touted in alleged spam scams. Applauding the move, Google is urging its users to strike their own blow against spammers.
In a blog post today, Google anti-spam engineer Brad Taylor calls upon Gmail users to use the service's "Report Spam" button "early


SEC shuts down trading for 35 companies due to spamComputerworld - Mar 8, 2007

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended trading for 35 companies that allegedly benefited from spam e-mail campaigns to hype their stocks.


Yahoo tests social network component for AnswersComputerworld, MA – March 8, 2007

March 08, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- Yahoo Inc. has started testing a social-network component for Yahoo Answers, a search engine in which people post questions and answers that has become a highly popular service for the Sunnyvale, Calif., company.

On Thursday, Yahoo Answers Network debuted as a beta service designed to let the 90 million users of this question-and-answer search engine create "personal networks" with each other. They can also invite acquaintances who don't use Yahoo Answers to join their network


Yahoo Tests Social Network Component for AnswersPC World – March 8, 2007

Yahoo is testing a social-network component for Yahoo Answers, a search engine in which people post questions and answers that has become a highly popular service for the Sunnyvale, California, company.


Vonage to pay $58 million in Verizon patent caseZDNet – March 8, 2007

Internet phone provider Vonage has been ordered to pay $58 million to Verizon Communications for infringing on three of the company's patents.

Vonage, which provides a service that turns broadband connections into phone lines, was found by a Virginia jury to have infringed patents that cover the technology used to connect these voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) calls to the regular phone network, as well as some features for implementing call-waiting and voice-mail services.

Vonage Ordered to Pay Verizon $58 Million
Forbes, NY – March 8, 2007

Internet phone company Vonage must pay Verizon Communications (nyse: VZ - news - people) $58 million for infringing on three patents that enable the upstart's low-cost telephone service, a jury ruled Thursday.


MessageLabs Service Monitors Email
InformationWeek, NY - March 8, 2007

Two software services help managers monitor and control what confidential, malicious, or inappropriate information and images go in or out of company e-mail.

MessageLabs launched a version update today for software that helps managers control what information flows in and out of company e-mail.

The New York-based messaging security company released V3.0 of its E-mail Content Control and V2.0 of its Email Image Control services