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Truphone to cut call costs from BlackBerry 10 devices

...BlackBerry 10 platform. They have really streamlined the app-development process," Adam Linford, head of labs and mobile applications at Truphone, said in a statement... Read more

1 May, 2012
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...contained in a magazine. It wasnt long before sporting giants Rio Ferdinand, Linford Christie, Danny Cipriani, Amir Khan, Carl Froch and Georges St-Pierre had... Read more

3 February, 2011

UK spam campaigner to help Europe fight back

...by the EC to help improve its laws on banning spam. Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, said on Monday he wants to see Europe adopt... Read more

25 October, 2004 by Dan Ilet

MCI-Verizon deal sparks spam fears

...combines with MCI, that makes it safer for hosting spam," said Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus. "This merger is likely to cause a lot of... Read more

15 February, 2005 by Dan Ilet

Spammers 'tricking ISPs' into sending junk mail

...to order proxies to send spam upstream to the ISP," said Steve Linford, director of SpamHaus. Linford believes that this Trojan was written by the... Read more

2 February, 2005 by Dan Ilet

Take on the spammers with Aussie rules

...misdirection. The true heroes of the spam wars are people like Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus. He runs a blacklist of the worst spammers and... Read more

26 October, 2004 by Leader

Spamhaus under attack from UK spammers

...that ostensibly outlaw the spamming of personal email addresses. Spamhaus founder Steve Linford revealed told the Openwave messaging anti-abuse conference in London this week... Read more

10 June, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Russia and China 'behind current spam deluge'

...over the Internet, according to a leading opponent of junk mail. Steve Linford, director of The Spamhaus Project, warned on Tuesday that these gangs are... Read more

8 June, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Government: Our spam laws won't be enough

...on combating spam. Other contributors taking part in the debate included Steve Linford of Spamhaus, a project that traces the worse spammers and helps ISPs... Read more

1 July, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

Most spam generated by botnets, says expert

...their junk mail. "Each group of spammers has a botnet," said Steve Linford, CEO of Spamhaus. "As fast as the FBI is shutting them down... Read more

22 September, 2004 by Dan Ilet

Software patents campaigners honoured

The FFII and NoSoftwarePatents.com have picked up an award for outstanding contribution to software development for their work in blocking European patent legislation, at the CNET Networks UK Technology Awards Read more

28 September, 2005 by Colin Barker and Ingrid Marson

UK failing to fight spam

...has hit out at the ICO for failing to control spammers. Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, said: "If I was a spammer I'd love... Read more

12 August, 2005 by Dan Ilet

On-the-run spammer caught and canned

...of his businesses which was illegally selling pharmaceuticals online. According to Steve Linford from Spamhaus, who traces the movements of the world's worst spammers... Read more

6 July, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

Spam law compromised by direct marketers

...Some even laboured under the misapprehension that businesses actually wanted spam. Steve Linford from Spamhaus said the process was "shameful". "For the DTI to have... Read more

2 June, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

IBM takes aim at spam

...spam back to the sender. "That's not actually right," said Steve Linford, director of antispam lobbyist Spamhaus. "It isn't sending anything back to... Read more

23 March, 2005 by ZDNet UK

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