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- Using mail for phishing
- The standard phishing scams still catch enough people to justify the small costs and low risks involved - but there's a better way. From the bad guy's perspective traditional phishing has costs and benefits. On the cost side there's a few hundred dollars to get a million...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Who'll Regulate VoIP-Using Telemarketers?
- Who'll Regulate VoIP-Using Telemarketers?Still A costThere is still a cost associated with telemarketing, which should limit the level of abuse seen in email and SMS messaging. In the UK, you cannot make totally automated calls - you need to have live operators - so there is still a cost...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Is Snopes pushing Adware? Urban legend or fact?
- Is Snopes pushing Adware? Urban legend or fact?RE: Is Snopes pushing Adware? Urban legend or fact?Pop-ups are SO last year. Looks like I'm headed to www.truthorfiction.com from now on.Pop up blockerHence why I use a pop up blocker, and No script ^_^. Kinda of pitiful on...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?
- Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?You tell me and we'll both know."The question is, what will be that next evolutionary step that resets things so that we have the final word on such sensitive information."You tell me and we'll both know.It's the golden rule...Those...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- Why metered Internet is a really bad idea
- Why metered Internet is a really bad ideaONLY if I could effectively block ...."Metered"service would make me pay TWICE for all the adds ZDnetinserts in each page. Once to access the internet and again topay for the gigabytes of data I would be forced to download toread ANYTHING!If ZDNet,...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- Auto Dialer Pro (zip)
- Automatic call center allows to make a large number of supervised or not supervised outbound telemarketing calls. This program is specifically designed for small businesses conducting surveys, church and community announcements, telemarketers and sales leads, fund raisers, political campaigning, and engineers testing remote equipment.Version 4.8 allows to use Excel spreadsheet...
- Software downloads 2007-11-16
- Technology Shakedown #9: Why AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are to blame for spam
- Technology Shakedown #9: Why AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are to blame for spamThis is why challenge response systems are growing in popularityi hate them.. cause i have to respond.. but they cut spam by 80%Graylisting is another useful technology.. The biggest drawbacks of both.. delayed email.I agree an...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-05
- SCO, it was good to know ya... you coulda been so much more
- I read with interest this morning a story in ComputerWorld more like an obituary about how SCO said in its most recent SEC filing that there is "substantial doubt" that it will survive. In addition to the meltdown of its lawsuit against IBM, the filing cites its depleted cash...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- Leads Master Pro (zip)
- Leads Master Pro will enable you to acquire millions of valuable leads for telemarketing your products. iMind has incorporated 9 top leads databases in LMP for USA, UK, Canada and Australia. Our Leads Generation software has the following features available: B2B and B2C for USA B2B and B2C for UK...
- Software downloads 2007-08-14
- Leading Finnish Magazine Publisher Boosts Sales and Improves Service With SAP Business Communications Management
- For Sanoma Magazines Finland Oy, replacing its traditional telephony system with the IP-based SAP Business Communications Management software proved to be a smart move. With the SAP software, the company was able to integrate their distributed telesales network into a single virtual operation. As a result, the publisher improved overall...
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- Avaya Case Study: Mas Cerca Call Center
- Mas Cerca Call Center, a successful South American company with more than 20 years experience in the outsourcing and telemarketing service market serves important banking and telecommunications companies. The company had an existing Nortel solution to support its 80-agent contact center in Santiago. Due to the competitive nature of its...
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- OfficeGenie (exe)
- Officegenie is an advanced Call Tracking and Customer Data Management System from the house of Softlogic Innovations. The software is best suited for Product/Service Departments, Market Surveys, Product/Service Telemarketing Teams and Day to day Call Tracking in an office. Call Tracking Module added. This version is the first release on...
- Software downloads 2007-06-26
- Tragedy: Commercial developer reports 35% of coding time spent on IE/FireFox incompatibilities
- Asynchronous Javascript and XML programming -- otherwise known as AJAX -- may be bringing an entire new level of interactivity to today's Web applications often bringing otherwise lifeless user interfaces to life. But it's also apparently wreaking havoc on developer productivity. While at the Enterprise 2.0 conference today, I...
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- HP ships third generation of blade PC solution with new Athlon 64
- HP must be getting something right with its blade PC-based solution. Despite the way the HP's approach seems to take go the opposite direction to the way that client-side computing trends are heading, the company is today launching its third generation of the architecture; a sign that it's...
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax ban
- Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax banThe internet is way to complicated for a tax. Besides we are already taxedHow so you ask? Hosting providers pay taxes on power, water, personell. We pay taxes when we buy a PC, when we turn it on and it...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- List brokers welcome thieves who target elderly
- Web-savvy scam artists are lurking everywhere on the net, and the elderly are particularly vulnerable, reports the International Herald Tribune. Posing as government and insurance workers simply updating their files, shysters telephone World War II vets, retired schoolteachers and thousands of other elderly Americans and ask for their bank account...
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Hasso Plattner outlines SAP's software vision
- Over 35 years since co-founding SAP, Hasso Plattner has been seeking to transform business software. Speaking at SAP annual Sapphire conference in Atlanta, Plattner gave a seminar on next-generation software, in which he detailed many of the main principles behind the companys next-generation product A1S business suite, without mentioning the...
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- SAP aims A1S on demand solution for 2008
- SAPs been working three years on developing a new business application suite and business model. Code-named A1S, the suite is aimed at the lower end of the mid-sized company segment, which is comprised of about 1 million companies. Its part of SAPs goal to grow from 39,000 customers to 100,000...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- The future of Local Search: Report from the field
- What is the future of local search?Number one search engine Google wants to determine the local search future, just like it aims to lead all the myriad forms of search and advertising it is setting its eyes on.Several hundred local search and advertising executives have convened in Santa Clara for...
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Web Content Grabber (exe)
- Here is what Web Grabber is helping our customer do. Produce highly effective direct marketing campaigns: Grab your list then print your Mailing Labels right from the tool. Grab your list then print envelopes from Microsoft Word or Grab your list and E-Mail your letter directly from the tool. Generate...
- Software downloads 2007-01-17
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