SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 (UPI) -- Spam, not the food product but the Internet nuisance, is having its 30th birthday, though a California computer scientist doesn't seem inclined to celebrate.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Eleven people, including Michigan's so-called spam king, were indicted in an alleged global spam and stock-fraud scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said.
AUSTIN, Minn., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Spam doesn't just mean the canned pork product, but also has an Internet usage, U.S. trademark guardians say.
BRUSSELS, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Unsolicited e-mail, commonly known as spam, accounts for nine of every 10 e-mail messages, a California spam-filtering company says.
SYDNEY, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Australian officials say more than 2 billion unsolicited spam e-mails largely promoting Viagra may be the work of a single culprit.
LONDON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Spam's manufacturer has decided if you can't beat a joke the next best thing is to join it -- in this case the London opening of the musical "Spamalot."
SAN BRUNO, Calif., July 24 (UPI) -- E-mail spam that relies on images to make it difficult to filter now encompasses 21 percent of all spam, said IronPort Systems, a San Bruno, Calif., company.
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17 (UPI) -- Israeli e-mail security company Comtouch unveiled Tuesday new technology designed to target spam that consists only of pictures.
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- In the United States, Spam may be an underappreciated meal or an unsolicited e-mail, but in South Korea the canned lunch meat is a luxury item.
SINGAPORE, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- As you go through your e-mail trying to separate the good stuff from the spam, reflect that Bill Gates gets about 4 million spam messages a day.
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- German-language spam containing political messages and links to a far-right German political party clogged e-mail worldwide.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The European Union and Asia agreed to fight spam and promote international anti-spam efforts during a conference in London.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Last year's U.S. effort to criminalize spam has been so unsuccessful junk e-mail has actually increased since Congress passed the Can Spam Act.
CHICAGO, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The Federal Trade Commission has asked a judge to halt illegal spam used to make claims about an "automotive fuel saver" that doesn't save fuel.
MIAMI, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Perhaps the only benefit from four hurricanes that hit Florida in the last two months is that spam e-mail fell by 10 percent, The Mirror reported Monday.
