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Happy Anniversary Spam
1st May 2008    Current rating: 

Topic: Technology

 Spamiversary! (Translation- Happy Anniversary, Spam!)

This is a big year, people! 2008 marks two significant events- The Olympics in Beijing and the 30th anniversary of the first Spam outbreak!!

What do these two events have in common? Both are being combined to target consumer cell phones!

China is already taking steps to try and curb this outbreak. Some of the stats released are quite stunning: According  to research by  the  center on handset users, more than 350 billion spam messages sent in China in 2007, representing a year-on-year increase  of 92.7 percent. This means that, on average, each mobile user in the country received 12.44 spam messages every week.

Sounds like combating the Spam attacks can be its own category of Olympic event in and of itself! It will be interesting to see how this all plays out between now and August. Let the games begin…!

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