The increasing flood of e-mail hitting your inbox can lower the guard of even the most cautious person. In the rush to keep up with important notes, i...
AP | Posted 11.25.2009 | Technology
DETROIT — A federal judge has sentenced a suburban Detroit man described as one of the world's most prolific senders of spam e-mail to more than fou...
Telegraph | Posted 10.31.2009 | Technology
Spamford has a reputation for sending unsolicited mail. The internet marketer was famously head of a company, Cyber Promotions, that sent as many as 3...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology
Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.
ABC News | Posted 11.25.2009 | Technology
Idaho is already famous for its spuds but, computer security experts say, it also abounds in something else: Spam. Idaho is the most spammed state...
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media
We all hate spam, but censors, especially ones on college campuses, are remarkably good at bundling protected speech with speech that does not enjoy constitutional protection.
Catherine Ventura | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media
A few weeks ago I made a one-click mistake that transformed my controlled Twitter ecosystem into a blinding swath of incoming locusts, dust devils, and hail.
ABC News | KIM KOMANDO | Posted 08.11.2009 | Business
Spam is the bane of computer users everywhere, accounting for more than 90 percent of e-mail. And, now, cell phones are getting spam....
AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
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Mary Ann West | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
Your Invitation from Newt Gingrich Trolling through my e-mail spam collector stacked high with the usual Starbucks, Barnes & Noble, Starwood, press r...
Ben Sherwood | Posted 06.02.2009 | Media
Long before you'd ever come down with swine flu, you'll be exposed to another kind of virus sweeping the world: A global outbreak of online scams preying on your fears of the so-called aporkalypse.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Goodbye Tax Day '08, Hello Tax Day '09 (with big new incentives to sweeten the deal); Birds taking the long way home; "Green...
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green
75 percent of this wasted energy is by us, the end user--consumed during all that time it takes us to delete the unsolicited junk. Therefore, having a smart spam filter is not only necessary for our sanity, it also has the global equivalent of taking 2.3 million cars of the road.
Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy
Please write back to fill me in on the scandalous details and to arrange to send all of your money to my bank account here in the United States
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 03.20.2009 | Style
I need to hold off on procuring the imitation Rolex until I can augment it with an imitation BMW, imitation Armani wardrobe, and the all-important imitation second home in Telluride.
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media
Many MSU decision-makers don't have a clear idea of the distinction between the use of university or departmental listservs and the general use of university e-mail accounts.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 01.30.2009 | Style
A good top 10 list is relevant, a little nostalgic and interesting. But a bad top 10 list? Now that's just good fun.
Leslie Hatfield | Posted 01.04.2009 | Green
We can't afford is to keep degrading our environment, our health and our local economies in the name of cheap food.
Epicenter | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business
A federal judge has awarded Facebook with $873 million in a spam lawsuit filed this past August, but it's a symbolic victory unlikely to yield them mu...
New York Times | ANDREW MARTIN | Posted 12.16.2008 | Business
The economy is in tatters and, for millions of people, the future is uncertain. But for some employees at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant here, tim...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics
Emails saying absolutely anything about a candidate could not only be sent anonymously, but whoever sends them would actually be allowed to break any sort of anti-spam laws to do so.
Ryan Blitstein | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago
Okay, Senator Obama, I get it. This is the most important election of our lifetimes. It's crunchtime, and every last dollar counts. Blah blah blah.
Lauren Cahn | Posted 10.10.2008 | Living
I first became aware of the fact that someone had hacked into my Hotmail account and used it to perpetrate a version of the "Nigerial Email Scam" when my mom called me.
Charles H. Green | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business
What do work-for-hire contracts, email disclaimers and spam have in common? They are all getting ubiquitous, annoying -- and ineffective.
AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 06.05.2008 | Business
MILWAUKEE — Love it, hate it or laugh at it _ at least it's inexpensive. Sales of Spam _ that much maligned meat _ are rising as consumers are ...
switched.com | By Chris Morris — Oct 26th 2009 at 12:24PM | Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology