Till few months back, India was the least spammy among BRIC countries and now, we are world’s #3! As per the data released by Symantec, US is number 1 followed by Brazil and then, India. Some of the highlights: Russian bride spam helps fills the void left after Valentine’s Day spam President Obama continue to make spammer...
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The recent TRAI guidelines about UCC (Unsolicited Commercial Communication) is causing more grief than doing anything useful to strengthen the regulatory framework to curb UCC. While the motive is good, implementation sucks. What’s the whole purpose of NDNC? A reasonable answer would be to “cut down on spam, sms promotional marketing and...
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The very existence of NDNC has been questioned by the govt. and it seems politicians have called the final blow by spamming 60 million cellphone users Delhi alone witnessed about 5 million SMSes sent out by each of the main parties in the fray. And many messages were sent without scrubbing the Do Not Call...
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Got this mail /spam from a bulk mailer agency – shows worth of your personal data. Worth of 50K CEO’s pesonal email ids is Rs. 10K! Database of Mumbai car owner is worth 5 times that of Kolkata! All India CEO data is worth Rs. 1/entry! Interesting data point, I must say. What’s your opinion? –here is the email forward...
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Image by silkegb via Flickr Few months back, India was the least spammy among BRIC countries and as per a new report, India has beaten China and has moved up the ladder! List of Spammy Countries list of spammy countries and their contribution to the worldwide spam: Russian Federation 11.92% United States 9.36% Brazil 7.48% Turkey 5.43%
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Search for deccanherald.com in Google and you get a warning “The site may harm your computer” Google has it’s own reasons for tagging Deccanherald as a “suspicious’ site: Of the 41 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 4 page(s) resulted in
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While Google opens its doors and makes Gmail invitation free, Yahoo has integrated Y! messenger with its’ email client and Flickr. Interestingly, Gmail is second to Y! in India and with Gmail going invitation free, Y! surely has a good competition to take note of. Also check out, Feld’s interesting post on history of...
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