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A cautionary note for anyone who receives an e-mail from Apple informing them they need to update their billing information — it’s a scam. This morning, I almost fell for it because it looked pretty darn good — but there’s always signs underneath the surface of the e-mail that I look for. Continue reading to [...]

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Spammer Gets 2.5 Years for Spamming AOL

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Spamming doesn’t pay — especially if you’re Adam Vitale, 27 from New York, was sentenced after his guilty plea for spamming more than 1.3 million AOL users. His partner in crime, Todd Moeller, assisted him by obfuscating sources of the junk mail, making it nearly untraceable, known as ’spoofing.’

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After I wrote about six ways to make voicemail better, David Gerzof from PhoneTag reached out to me and offered to let me try their service. All in all, I was impressed with their voicemail service from registration, setup and delivery of their service. I’ll share some bits on what really impressed me.

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EXCLUSIVE — It appears that AOL has plans to allow their users to disable the promotional text at the bottom of their e-mail. At this time, it appears only a select few have been able to successfully disable the company’s ads at the bottom of their e-mail.

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Unloading the E-Mail Overload

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Jeremiah at Web Strategist blogged about the how e-mail is consuming us in today’s business culture. Often, a lot of employees in almost any sized organization, are bogged down doing e-mail instead of getting work done. There is some hope — some technical solutions and some process improvements.

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