Spammers are the party-poopers when it comes to the Internet. Yes, the web helps us in discovering new information, connecting with other people and increasing our productivity. This has been going for...

Been seeing a lot of links to obscene or vulgar videos supposedly posted by your friends on Facebook & felt they were SPAM? Well Yes they are & Facebook along with Washington DC are trying to win...

Marketing Technology firm firm Octane Marketing has attempted to make sense of the many independent research conducted by independent firms, including its own & tried offer a simplified view of India’s...

Google has received plenty of bad press, especially since the turn of the year, for its search results being overrun by content farms. comScore results are continuously suggesting that Bing is gaining...

There is always something about us Indians that makes the world take notice. Often, in the wrong sense. While you have some people appreciating the work we do, others are just plainly pissed off at hearing...

Illegal Peer-to-Peer activities galore as India ranks 8th in the world with the highest level of film piracy of any English-speaking country, finds a Motion Picture Association (MPA) and Dtechnet study...

At WATBlog, we’ve commented quite a few times on cyber crime and how the fast changing face of the Internet has a lost of scope for misuse. A while back, we covered the amendments made to the IT...

Mid-level social networking sites were always criticized for their use of lewd methods to target users. Now it seems that the State of New York plans to sue the social-networking site Tagged.com for allegedly...

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...

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,...

  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...

    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...