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Banned ads do the business
A company that ran foul of advertising standards with racy adverts for its new anti-spam service has encountered a surge of interest from businesses desperate to clear their servers of junk email messages. A group of IT industry veterans are behind Spam Dunk, a subscription service pitched at small businesses that have their own mail servers but don't want to be burdened with the task of monitoring spam and virus filters. "We want to be like the Rentokil pest exterminators of the internet business," said Nigel Lawry, co-founder of Hot Pipe, the firm offering Spam Dunk. The service uses a range of off-the-shelf anti-spam and anti-virus filters with reporting and provisioning tools that let IT departments monitor the traffic coming through their mail servers.
Japanese grannies go high-tech
TOKYO: "My husband isn't home tonight. Would you like to..." reads the suggestive e-mail on the computer screen. Obviously, the sender has no idea that the recipient is 78-year-old grandmother Kikue Kamata.
"What does she want me to do?" an amused Kamata says. "I know I shouldn't open spam but sometimes I do because it's fun."
A high-tech granny used to be considered an oxymoron. But in Japan, with its love of technology and a declining birth rate, a growing number of elderly are learning to surf the Internet, finding it to be a crucial lifeline.
"I turn on my computer the first thing in the morning. It's a pleasure to see the email that came overnight," says Kamata's friend, Roko Shinohara.
The two women are members of the Computer Grannies Society, launched in 1997 to nurture a new breed of net-savvy elderly.
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