Report: Spam Levels Rise For Fifth Month In A Row

2 March 2007

Report: Spam Levels Rise For Fifth Month In A RowInformationWeek, NY - 4 hours ago

For the fifth straight month, spam levels continued their upward trek, accounting for 77.8% of all e-mail sent in February.
MessageLabs' Intelligence Report for February shows that Valentine's Day and the surge of spam and hoaxes it brought with it this year, greatly contributed to the amount of spam that went out last month. The holiday even brought its own round of not-so-sweet malware.


Spam levels rise againIT Week, UK - 2 hours ago

For the fifth consecutive month spam levels have increased with 77.8 per cent of all emails sent in February being junk mail.
The increase has been linked to the predictable focus on Valentine’s Day-related messages. February also saw a hike in seasonal hijacking threats, including the 'For My Valentine' malware with attachments such as 'Greetings Card.exe', according to vendor MessageLabs.

Berners-Lee pushes Congress on 'nondiscriminatory' WebZDNet - 6 hours ago

WASHINGTON--World Wide Web father Tim Berners-Lee told politicians on Thursday that it's critical to shield his seminal innovation from control by a single company or country.

A top priority for policymakers going forward must be "making sure the Web itself is the blank sheet, the blank canvas, something that does not constrain the innovation that's around the corner," the knighted engineer told a U.S. House of Representatives panel that writes Internet and telecommunications laws.

Web Inventor Tells Congress to Consider Net NeutralityPC World - 8 hours ago

Timothy Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, advocated that the U.S. Congress protect net neutrality and questioned the value of digital rights management Thursday. Berners-Lee, speaking before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet in the U.S. House of Representatives, said it was "very, very important" for lawmakers to protect the ability of users to access the Web content they want regardless of their Internet service provider.


Social Networking Without The Big BoysCBS News, NY - 13 hours ago

CBS/AP) Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen helped bring the Internet to the masses during the 1990s. Now the Netscape Communications co-founder is trying to help Web surfers build online communities outside the walls of social networking leaders MySpace.com and Facebook.com.


Netscape Co-Founder to Build CommunitiesForbes, NY - Feb 28, 2007

Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen helped bring the Internet to the masses during the 1990s. Now the Netscape Communications co-founder is trying to help Web surfers build online communities outside the walls of social networking leaders MySpace.com and Facebook.com.


Inbox.com Leading Webmail Service Provider Announces Major Upgrade

NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Boca Raton, FL, United States, 03/01/2007 - This latest upgrade of Inbox.com webmail service includes tools for organizing users’ emails. Along with its 5GB capacity email accounts and other features, Inbox.com is one of the world’s largest webmail services.


Inbox.com, Inc. today announced its latest upgrade of Inbox.com free webmail service including tools for organizing users’ emails. With its 5GB capacity email accounts, Inbox.com is one of the world’s largest free webmail services with email label categorization in combination with folders.