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Storm Botnet set for holiday attacks say researchers
One of the primary ways machines became infected was by users clicking on e-mails that were often associated with holidays, including Valentine's Day, Labor Day, Fourth of July and others. Over the Christmas holiday, the creators of the "Storm Worm" sent e-mails with dozens of Christmas and New Year's-related greeting messages.

usable-everwhere SMTP server
If you don't have an SMTP server you can use for your email account, or port 25 is blocked (for example, you are using an AOL internet connection but you don't want to use an AOL email address), you should1) get a GMail account2) set the GMail "send mail as" address to be your email address3) use GMail's SMTP serverSee link for details

France Bids Adieu to 'E-Mail'
France bands the English word e-mail in government documents

First Amendment Right of Individuals Online Users
The case arose from an anonymous message sent to the management team of Mobilisa, a Seattle provider of wireless and mobile communication systems,chiding the company's CEO for an e-mail to his mistress, a copy of which was forwarded along with the reproving message. Mobilisa then subpoenaed - TheAnonymousEmail.com - The Suggestion Box, Inc., dba

What Happens When Someone Steals Your Content and Botches It
Last week I posted an interview with Alicia Navarro, founder and CEO of Skimbit. About 24 hours after the interview went live, I received an email from Alicia. You see, Alicia tracks the word 'Skimbit' and she received an alert about a site posting an interview with her. Except the interview wasn't here on CN, but on another site

A MUST READ! Googlestalked...Scroogled
Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches What if it controlled your life? What if the United States Immigration system was "Powered by Google"?

How To Encrypt And Secure Your Email
Email is private, right? Think again. All your email can be read, and not just by your friends. Be careful of what you send out, since it just might return to haunt you. There are ways to keep email safe, but this information is not widely known.

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Researcher: Info Overload Costs Economy
too much email is killing productivity. of course, this doesn't apply in any way to digg.

Accidental "reply all" cost US economy $650 billion
Think twice before you copy someone on an e-mail or hit "reply all." Such practices have made today's workers less productive, a research firm concludes. US$650 billion less productive in fact.

Happy Holidays from California
I'm on vacation in Palm Desert, California - -If any entrepreneuers are out here and want to meet up, shoot me an email at...

Kansas GOP Chair Sends Party Email Boasting of Voter Caging
Kris Kobach, chairman of the Kansas GOP, sent out a self-congratulatory litany of accomplishments. Among them was one particularly eye-catching item: “To date, the Kansas GOP has identified and caged more voters in the last 11 months than the previous two years!” Did we mention it's illegal? And that Kris Kobach is proud to be doing it? ...

ASUS M530w - Is Your Phone Smarter Than You?
Uh, it just may be! The ASUS M530w smartphone, launched by IDLDPL, adapts to 3G environments, supports POP3, IMAP4, Microsoft Exchange, BlackBerry 4.0 and Push E-mail services, receives Outlook mail, has a QWERTY keypad, a 2 meg camera and Business Card Recognition.

Thanking Etiquette - is it a lost courtesy?
When you get a gift and you did not have a chance to Thank the person who gave you the gift - it is proper to send a thank you card (or at the very least, email a Thank you). This respect seems to be lost in people.

Whoops! Spitzer's E-Mails Deleted
"In what was probably an end-of-year house cleaning, the e-mails related to the Troopergate re-investigation were obliterated and thus made unavailable to Albany County District Attorney David Soares."

Thanking Etiquette - is it a lost courtesy?
When you get a gift and you did not have a chance to Thank the person who gave you the gift - it is proper to send a thank you card (or at the very least, email a Thank you). This respect seems to be lost in people.

Importance of signature marketing concepts.
Whenever you send an email containing that which is one of the signature marketing concepts, all the links will display and the email signature recipient of the email is free to click through it.The links on your email signature last, even when the email is forwarded to others.

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Two-third of e-mails are junk mails
A new research has shown that the proportion of the junk e-mails reaching one’s inbox is nearly 70 percent or two-thirds of total mails received.

Google Alerts Spam - Google Apps says and put them there
...Google Apps configured Email considered official Google emails like Google Alerts as spam and puts them in the spam box.