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How many of you are on Facebook and are tired of application request? Well, evidently a lot of Facebook users are.
  
Here’s a couple of screenshots of groups who are overtly pissed.
 
 
Facebook listened to it’s users and created an ‘ignore all’ button for ignoring multiple requests. It’s now looking at ways to make sure that [...]

The Akamai report for “State of the Internet” (Q1 – 2008). The report (pdf – registration required) looks mostly at data on the origins of attack traffic, network outages and de-peering events, as well as a look at broadband connectivity by geography.
 
India’s contribution to global attack traffic: India contributes 2.53% to global attack traffic and ranks among the [...]

 
According to a Wikipedia entry following RSS Awareness Day, It is the 30th birthday of annoying SPAM. As spam turns 30 on May 2nd I would like to share with you how it all started. Way back in May 1978, Kurt Kleiner of NewScientistTech reminds us that it was Gary Thuerk, a marketer at [...]

 
India’s contribution towards spamming is increasing. Here are the stats - 76 per cent of e-mails originating from India are almost spams. Compared with top 25 spam producing nations India’s contribution is only 1% so far, but the figures aren’t good as they are rising at a rapid speed. As the internet population in India [...]