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Analysis: Are PR Professionals Essentially Spammers?

Authored by Rohit Bhargava on November 5, 2007 - 10:57am.

There has been a firestorm of discussion lately after Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine and author of the long tail recently "outed" all the PR professionals that had been contacting him with anonymous spam style "Dear Editor" communications.  On a day where he had more than 300 of these, he finally decided he had enough and fired off a post banning those PR folks from contacting him and adding him to his blocked sender list.

tags: Internet | Marketing | WIRED | Spam | Chris Anderson |

MySpace Files Lawsuit Against Spammers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 22, 2007 - 11:02am.

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s online social network MySpace announced on Monday that it has filed suit against a number of spammers for posting millions of spam "bulletins" to MySpace users' accounts.

tags: Lawsuits | Social Networking | MySpace | Spitzer | Spam |

Cisco to Pay $830 Million for Spam Blocker Firm IronPort Systems

Authored by dmw on January 4, 2007 - 11:02am.
San Jose, Calif. - Cisco, the San Jose-based network equipment giant, said on Thursday that it will pay $830 million in cash and stock to acquire IronPort Systems, a San Bruno-based maker of messaging security appliances focusing on spam and spyware protection for large organizations.
tags: Deals | Internet | Tech | Security | Acquisitions | Email | Cisco | Spam | IronPort |

Coincidence? Or is AOL Really Just Digging for Publicity?

Authored by robert on August 16, 2006 - 2:08am.
AOL Gold RushWhile doing my usual rounds of aggregating top stories in digital media from around the web this morning, I was struck by the odd, but obvious, tie-in between these two stories: 1) AOL Prepares to Dig for Gold – Literally; and 2) Big Brands to Sponsor Mark Burnett & AOL’s New Gold Rush Reality Show. 
tags: Games | Internet | Video | Law | TV | AOL | Portals | Mark Burnett | Spam | Reality Shows |

Analysis: Nine Out Of Ten Emails Are Now Junk, Damn It!

Authored by Jay Baage on August 3, 2006 - 8:54am.

According to a fresh study done by the Swedish Internet provider Spray, the amount of junk mail being sent to its subscribers has increased from 80% to 90% during 2006. I’m sure that this reflects the situation in most of Europe and the U.S. as well (AOL reported around 80% junk mail in the U.S. by the end of 2005). 

tags: Internet | Marketing | Law | Tech | Security | Software | Email | Spam |

Study Finds Spam Costs Consumers $22 Billion a Year

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 4, 2005 - 3:14am.
College Park, Md. -- Unwanted "spam" e-mail costs U.S. consumers $21.58 billion a year in lost productivity, according to a new study by the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and technology research firm Rockbridge Associates. The data indicates that adult consumers spent an average of three minutes deleting spam each day they checked e-mail in 2004. The study's authors reached their dollar figure by multiplying that by the 169.4 million online adults in the U.S., then figuring the worth of 22.9 million lost hours a week based on the average working wage. "We all know that spam is a nuisance, but this allows us to assign a real value to what it is costing U.S. society," said Roland Rust, director of the Smith School's Center for Excellence in Service. "This should serve as a loud wake up call to government and business," said Charles Colby, the president of Rockbridge Associates. The study also found that four out of five adults receive spam on a daily basis, with 14% actually reading the e-mails. About 4% admitted to purchasing a product or service advertised in spam over the past 12 months.
tags: Consumers | Study | Spam |