Spam costs businesses millions every year: report

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Internet travel costs Florida millions

Internet travel costs Florida millions 03/19/2005 03:16 AM
Miami.com - Fri Mar 18, 12:04 pm GMT

Bay area message board costs papers
millions

Bay area message board costs papers
millions 12/28/2004 05:41 PM
Beatniks at Craigslist rule classifieds

Health-care costs shoot up, millions in
U.S. left gasping

Health-care costs shoot up, millions in
U.S. left gasping 07/04/2004 12:09 PM
Health-care costs shoot up, millions in U.S. left gasping "...there are signs of growing frustration. The Gallup Organization reported in January that for the first time since 1992, when Americans are polled about urgent health problems facing the country, the cost of health care is No. 1, ahead of issues such as cancer, obesity, and smoking..."

Small Businesses Point To Hidden Costs
Of Xserve Support

Small Businesses Point To Hidden Costs
Of Xserve Support 04/16/2004 09:09 PM
Owning one of Apple's rackmounted Xserve products comes with hidden support costs, some small business customers say. By Nick dePlume, Think Secret (via MyAppleMenu)

Millions Wasted Every Year Because
People do not Switch Computers Off

Millions Wasted Every Year Because
People do not Switch Computers Off 04/15/2005 04:30 AM
Electricity costs money, but do we all really know how much? Millions could be saved annually by simply switching off computers. [PRWEB Apr 15, 2005]

Report: Craigslist costing newspapers
millions

Report: Craigslist costing newspapers
millions 12/28/2004 01:09 AM
The free community Web site has cost San Francisco Bay Area newspapers up to $65 million, according to a new report.

USCity.net Foils Spam Attempt to
Millions of AOL E-Mail Addresses

USCity.net Foils Spam Attempt to
Millions of AOL E-Mail Addresses 06/29/2004 02:19 AM
In March of this year USCity.net intercepted and captured the first of over 3000 spam blasts to millions of AOL clients. These attempted spam blasts directed at AOL clients are still continuing. [PRWEB Jun 29, 2004]

Study: Audits of Businesses Down Last
Year (AP)

Study: Audits of Businesses Down Last
Year (AP) 04/11/2004 09:03 PM
AP - The Internal Revenue Service audited fewer corporations, small businesses and partnerships last year but more individual taxpayers, according to a study of government data.

Stress Costs U.S. $300 Billion a Year

Stress Costs U.S. $300 Billion a Year 09/04/2004 11:12 PM

Card switching costs £1bn a year

Card switching costs £1bn a year 04/12/2005 01:41 AM
People who switch credit cards to take advantage of interest free deals are costing the industry more than £80m a month.

Microsoft aims to cut $1bn costs a year

Microsoft aims to cut $1bn costs a year 07/08/2004 12:14 AM
The Scotsman Jul 8 2004 3:53AM GMT

IT failure costs SMEs £6k a year

IT failure costs SMEs £6k a year 02/12/2004 09:57 AM
*$&!ing computers

51% of medium businesses to have WLANs
by year-end 2005

51% of medium businesses to have WLANs
by year-end 2005 03/23/2005 02:29 AM
ZDNet Mar 23 2005 6:07AM GMT

Back pain costs $90 billion/year

Back pain costs $90 billion/year 01/02/2004 07:13 AM
A Duke University study has concluded that back pain costs the US economy $90 billion a year.

"To put these expenses in perspective, the total $90 billion spent in 1998 represented 1 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the $26 billion in direct back pain costs accounted for 2.5 percent of all health care expenditures for that year," said lead researcher Xuemei Luo, Ph.D., who published the results of the Duke study today (Jan. 1, 2004) in the journal Spine.

OK, here's a thing: from the age of 17, right up until September 2002, I suffered from really bad back pain. I would spend a couple days a month laid up on the sofa, unable to move, and I'd go through a couple bottles of over-the-counter pain meds a month. I developed chemical burns on my back from overuse of "deep heat" patches and Tiger Balm. I saw a doctor who told me that I would likely need to have my spine fused.

Then I read this really weird, hippy-trippy book by Richard Sarno, a guy who appears to be to back pain what Atkins was to dieting a couple years back, a fringe researcher with no independent verification of his results and a slightly suspect, "They laughed at me in Vienna, I'll show them all" affect that makes it hard to take his stuff seriously.

Sarno advocates a kind of self-hypnosis or self-interrogation to relieve the mental causes of back pain, and states that it works even if you don't believe in it. Well, I tried it. 24h later, I began the single longest period of pain-free living in my adult life. I haven't been laid up in over a year now, and I take painkillers for headaches, not back-aches.

Your mileage may vary, but after more than a year of this, I'm ready to start talking about it. Like Atkins for weight loss and hypnosis for smoking cessation, Sarnoid back-therapy feels something like getting root on my body, like being able to move into user-controlled space stuff that the OS was badly mismanaging in the background. L ink

Most Businesses Will Begin A Major
Software Upgrade This Year

Most Businesses Will Begin A Major
Software Upgrade This Year 07/08/2004 06:51 PM
TechWeb Jul 8 2004 11:20PM GMT

Spam Costs, Volumes Soar Despite New
Laws

Spam Costs, Volumes Soar Despite New
Laws 06/08/2004 05:24 PM
Two new reports find that spam's cost to enterprises has more than doubled in the past 10 months, costing almost $2,000 per employee each year, as the volume of spam reaches new heights.

Businesses warned to prepare for
dangerous new spam variants

Businesses warned to prepare for
dangerous new spam variants 11/02/2003 10:55 PM
Computer Weekly Nov 2 2003 9:16PM ET

Identity fraud costs Australia AU$1
billion a year

Identity fraud costs Australia AU$1
billion a year 11/11/2003 10:17 PM
ZDNet Australia Nov 11 2003 9:28PM ET

Flawed Online Searches Cost Businesses
$31 Billion Last Year

Flawed Online Searches Cost Businesses
$31 Billion Last Year 06/26/2004 06:07 AM
Flawed Online Searches Cost Businesses $31 Billion Last Year
http://www.emarke ter.com/Article.aspx?1002877

Amid the excitement with search advertising revenue growth and the upcoming Google IPO, a study finds US executives dissatisfied with the performance of online search engines.
According to a survey released by FIND/SVP, 84% of business executives feel that Web searches -- using the generally consumer-centric search engines now available --take longer than they should due to poor results. It is estimated that the loss of productive time using search engines to conduct online research cost businesses $31 billion last year. The study found that that not only are 71% of business executives frustrated with consumer search engines, 74% are not even confident that the results are reliable. However, despite this lack of confidence, 67% stated it would be difficult or impossible to do their jobs without Web-based search tools. Business professionals also question the reliability of search information, with 52% only "somewhat confident" that results originate from credible sources.

Interesting article and it just happens that FIND/SVP announces their "new" business search engine this week!! Hmmmm......

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
Danny O'Brien has written up one of the first summits between spammers and spam-fighters for the Guardian. It's a great piece.

Surprisingly, no such shootings occur. It's oddly intimate, watching the spammers and the anti-spammers mill around each other like this. It feels like a temporary ceasefire in a vicious war that to most of us seems to be a stalemate...

Over the past year, though, a series of meetings arranged by a trusted figure in the American anti-spam community, Anne Mitchell, have been slowly bringing the two sides together. These mini-conferences, held under the banner of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, have mostly been between the highest-ranking ISPs - MSN, AOL - and commercial email marketers of the most squeaky clean kind. Initially in secret, these days the meetings are more public.

Link (via Oblomovka)

LaneChange.net Launches Service to
Protect Businesses from Spam and Viruses

LaneChange.net Launches Service to
Protect Businesses from Spam and Viruses 06/07/2004 04:09 AM
Cost effective solution offers real-time server threat protection against Spam, worms and computer viruses without up-front hardware costs. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]

Businesses Had Say in Report on State
Overhaul (Los Angeles Times)

Businesses Had Say in Report on State
Overhaul (Los Angeles Times) 07/31/2004 05:28 AM
Los Angeles Times - SACRAMENTO — Some of California's most influential business interests — including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and EDS — were given easy access to a state commission as it met privately to recommend sweeping government changes, according to disclosure reports and interviews.

Report: Electronic Prescribing Cuts
Errors, Costs

Report: Electronic Prescribing Cuts
Errors, Costs 04/19/2004 03:08 PM
Electronic prescribing systems would possibly prevent 2.1 million adverse drug events and 190,000 hospitalizations a year, the nonprofit eHealth Initiative finds.

Outsourcing, Rising Health Care Costs
and HSAs Highlight Media Coverage in
First HR Intelligence Trend Report for
2005

Outsourcing, Rising Health Care Costs
and HSAs Highlight Media Coverage in
First HR Intelligence Trend Report for
2005 03/29/2005 03:55 AM
HRmarketer.com, the no. 1 online marketing and PR service in the human capital industry, has introduced monthly trend reports that will track companies and topics receiving most media attention, the top advertisers, and the overall health of the human resource marketplace. [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

One Year After Law, Spam Still Out of
the Can (washingtonpost.com)

One Year After Law, Spam Still Out of
the Can (washingtonpost.com) 01/03/2005 10:14 AM
washingtonpost.com - The nation's first law aimed at curtailing junk e-mail earned a mixed report card after a year on the books as few spammers faced legal action and recent surveys showed that spam makes up an even larger proportion of online messages.

Spam Is The Product Of The Year?

Spam Is The Product Of The Year? 12/22/2003 04:09 PM
Research and consulting firm Basex has declared that spam is "The Product of the Year". The thinking, of course, is that the product of the year doesn't necessarily need to be good, but it should be the most disruptive - and spam can certainly lay a claim to that. It's one of the most recognized technology "products" and it is changing the way people use the internet. Hopefully, this is one product that will find itself to be a "fad" more than a real long term offering.

Report: Spam

Report: Spam 09/10/2004 10:39 AM
domain name spoofing

Year in review: Spam can't be canned

Year in review: Spam can't be canned 01/02/2004 12:07 PM
Unwanted e-mail filled in-boxes by the billions in 2003, but legal and technical efforts to stop the scourge were ineffective.

Reading from the Bible on the floor of
the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch
endorsed a federal judicial nominee who
wrote that wives should have a
subordinate role in marriage, with the
Utah Republican emphasizing
“millions and millions of peopl

Reading from the Bible on the floor of
the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch
endorsed a federal judicial nominee who
wrote that wives should have a
subordinate role in marriage, with the
Utah Republican emphasizing
“millions and millions of peopl 07/09/2004 04:52 AM

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Checking In On CAN SPAM... Still Nothing
To Report

Checking In On CAN SPAM... Still Nothing
To Report 08/05/2004 05:46 PM
You know it's a slow news day when about the most interesting story around is the fact that an anti-spam company has noticed (no, really?) that CAN SPAM hasn't actually cut down on spam. In fact it's working so poorly that spammers have even stopped pretending to comply with it. About one-half of one percent of all spam apparently now complies with CAN SPAM. Good thing we have that law, huh?

Report: Stopping Spam

Report: Stopping Spam 09/13/2004 10:32 AM
SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is definitely worth a look for mail administrators.

How to report spam to Google & Co

How to report spam to Google & Co 09/29/2002 10:00 AM
Stickysauce Sep 29 2002 8:38AM ET

Spamhaus: MCI Makes $5M A Year In Spam
Profits

Spamhaus: MCI Makes $5M A Year In Spam
Profits 02/05/2005 09:08 PM

Politicians In The US And UK Agree To
Talk Once A Year About Spam

Politicians In The US And UK Agree To
Talk Once A Year About Spam 03/24/2005 08:31 PM
A group of spam hating politicians in the UK have teamed up with a group of spam hating politicians in the US to... well, let's see, it doesn't really say what they're going to do. At best, it looks like they'll get together once a year (either here or there) to talk about spam. Well, that's a relief. A once yearly cross-Atlantic gathering of politicians who hate spam. It's not like spammers are likely to make adjustments or anything to whatever weak piece of legislation comes out -- assuming any legislation does come out of this.

Top Spam For The Year: Viagra, Mortgages
And Porn

Top Spam For The Year: Viagra, Mortgages
And Porn 12/31/2003 07:16 PM
Well, what better way to close out the year than a post about spam? AOL has released their list of "top" spam messages from 2003 which represent the subject lines of the spam they found most often in 2003. At the top of the list, of course, is any subject pitching Viagra. Next up are spam for low mortgage rates, and coming in third is the ever popular porn spam. AOL claims they blocked 500 billion spam messages - an average of about 40 per day per user.

Free Spam Software (for a Year) for
Libraries

Free Spam Software (for a Year) for
Libraries 04/08/2005 10:25 AM

Read Books, Not Spam

To celebrate "National Library Week," TechSoup Stock and Mailshell are sponsoring the "Read Books, Not Spam!" campaign to help U.S. public libraries protect themselves against spam. In recognition of the value of our public libraries, on April 20, 2005 all U.S. public libraries will be eligible to order at http://ga0.org/ct/Up1JO4S1pXgp/ a free, full year donation of Mailshell anti-spam desktop software for each employee.

In addition, the TechSoup website will provide informative articles for libraries to learn more about spam - and how to have a safer, spam-free computing environment. TechSoup Stock is a nonprofit service of TechSoup that offers donated and discounted technology products for libraries and nonprofits from leading technology providers at low administrative fees.

Registration is required to receive the donation. To learn more and pre-register, visit http://ga0.org/ct/y11JO4S1pXgP/ .

HOW TO ORDER YOUR FREE SOFTWARE

If you have pre-registered your library on TechSoup Stock, you can just visit the TechSoup Stock website on April 20th at
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To expedite the processing of your order on April 20, please register your organization so that we can pre-qualify your organization as an eligible U.S. public library. Just follow these two steps:

* Download and complete the special Mailshell Anti-Spam Donation
Pre-Qualification Form (PDF) at http://ga0.org/ct/yd1JO4S1pXgQ/ .
* Fax your completed form to (415) 633-9444. If your library is a 501(c)(3) organization, please also fax your library's 501(c)(3) letter of determination from the IRS.

If you have ordered from TechSoup Stock before, no additional registration is necessary to participate. Note: TechSoup Stock conducts a thorough qualification process to ensure that all organizations participating in our donation programs are qualified U.S. public libraries with a 501(c)(3) designation or FSCS ID.

LEARN HOW TO FIGHT SPAM

"Read Books, Not Spam" is more than free software. It is an educational campaign to help libraries manage the negative effects of spam on their organization. At TechSoup.org you can find helpful articles and resources on topics such as how to avoid being a spammer and how to prevent spam. Visit: http://ga0.org/ct/U71JO4S1pXg0/ .

5m European 3G users this year - report

5m European 3G users this year - report 04/30/2004 09:06 AM
DMeurope.com Apr 30 2004 12:27PM GMT

Spam Conference Trip Report

Spam Conference Trip Report 01/18/2003 10:48 AM
Spam Conference Trip Report Yesterday was the first ever Spam Conference and it was held at MIT. First off I have to give huge kudos to Paul Graham the organizer. In a little over a month he put together a truly outstanding conference --- and the interest level was astonishing. They expected "50 to 60" and instead 560 signed up. And since the room was basically full and it held 566 by number of seats, I'd say roughly 520 to 540 actually made it. And don't think that these were all local MIT geeks either; I sat next to a researcher from IBM Zurich, had lunch with people from Cloudmark (San Francisco), met the founder of pobox (Philadelphia), spoke with Tony Bowden at length (England) and others. Presentations came from BrightMail, Popfile, Microsoft France, MIT, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, ShopIP, MessageLabs and others. Most of the discussions focused on "Naive Statistical Bayesian Classifiers" such as iFile and Popfile (although many other systems were represented including other types). If I can find the papers online I'll post links to them. Otherwise Google for them from the info at the Spam Conference page. More on the conference later or tomorrow.

Report: Third of spam spread by
RAT-infested PCs

Report: Third of spam spread by
RAT-infested PCs 12/03/2003 02:40 PM
About 30 percent of spam on the Web is relayed through PCs compromised by malicious programs known as Remote Access Trojans, according to a corporate spam and antivirus company.
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