Companies step up e-mail surveillance

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Large companies are now so concerned about the contents of the electronic communications leaving their offices that they're employing staff to read employees' outgoing e-mails. According to research from Forrester Consulting, 44 per cent of large corporations in the United States now pay someone to monitor and snoop on what's ...

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Who really reads your e-mail?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

The people in my personal focus group (my wife, my mother, and some coworkers at CNET) agree that this is one of the creepiest things they've ever heard of: a new service that will tell your correspondents exactly when you opened the e-mail they sent you. It will also tell ...

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Help! My Belkin Router is Spamming Me!

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

The marketing geniuses at Belkin, the consumer networking vendor, have dreamed up a new form of spam - ads served to your desktop, by way of its wireless router.Uh Clem. a former Belkin wireless router user, was perplexed to find machines on his network redirected to an ad for Belkin's ...

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You’ve got mail — and the boss knows

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

More than nine out of 10 (92 percent) managers check up on their employees' use of e-mail and the Internet at work, according to a new survey of 192 companies by Bentley College's Center for Business Ethics. The study by the Waltham, Mass., college found that 26 percent monitor employees' online ...

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Another Disposable Email Address Site

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Have you ever needed an email .. NOW? Have you ever gone to a website that asks for your email for no reason (other than they are going to sell your email address to the highest bidder so you get spammed forever)? Welcome to Mailinator(tm) - Its no signup, instant email. ...

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