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MPs to hold spam summit
News Derek Wyatt MP, a long-time campaigner for tougher action against spam, especially pornographic emails, has organised a spam summit which will take place on 1 July. Any companies that would be interested in sponsoring the spam summit should contact...
[May 21, 2003, 11:51]
Innocent emails are a victim of spam war
News On Thursday, participants at a three-day spam summit convened by the Federal Trade Commission sparred over whether such blacklists are legal and whether they do more harm than good. The FTC summit is the first serious evaluation of blacklists...
[May 2, 2003, 8:06]
Business email may escape spam crackdown
News Speaking at the Spam Summit at the House of Commons on Tuesday, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms said the government was still weighing up whether businesses should be treated differently from individual Internet users in the forthcoming...
[July 2, 2003, 13:52]
Government: Our spam laws won't be enough
News Timms told the Spam Summit at the House of Commons on Tuesday that a global approach was needed to combat the growing menace of spam. Derek Wyatt MP, joint-chair of the All Party Internet group, which organised Tuesday's event, suggested that a...
[July 1, 2003, 15:34]
Spam growth shows no sign of stopping
News MessageLab's warning came on the eve of the Spam Summit, where politicians and industry figures will come together to debate the growing problem of unsolicited, and often pornographic, email that is choking the nation's inboxes.
[June 30, 2003, 16:29]
UK laws may help spammers look legit
News Gringras's comments were made at the first evidence session organised by the parliamentary All Party Internet Group (APIG), which also organised the Spam Summit earlier this week. One of the most startling contributions to Tuesday's Spam Summit...
[July 4, 2003, 11:30]
Broadband access dominates UK tech awards
News Other winners included public relations firm GBC, which took PR Campaign of the Year for its work with spam-filtering company Brightmail, which included setting up the UK's first spam summit. The awards ceremony was held on the first evening of the...
[October 9, 2003, 10:00]
US stands firm over Internet control
News The UN's World Summit on the Information Society began with a high-minded purpose: to bridge the technological gap between richer and poorer nations. Q: What are the stakes at the WSIS summit? The focus of the summit originally — and we believe...
[November 11, 2005, 16:20]
Should the UN administer the Internet?
News ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com recently spoke with Zhao about the ITU's increased interest in the Internet and its involvement in a series of meetings that will conclude in November with a UN World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia.
[March 30, 2005, 16:05]
Spam inquiry to focus on international laws
News As first reported at ZDNet UK, the inquiry will follow a Spam Summit to be opened by e-commerce minister Stephen Timms and hosted by Derek Wyatt MP. An inquiry into spam, to be held by a cross-party group of MPs next month, is to look at how...
[June 16, 2003, 11:20]
Gates: Spam erodes trust in technology
News The hearing furthered discussions that had begun at a three-day congressional summit on spam in April. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates weighed in on the spam debate for a congressional hearing Wednesday, outlining in a letter the legal measures he...
[May 22, 2003, 12:26]
Spam fight goes global
News The initiative was set up in line with the World Summit on Information Society 2005 Tunis agenda, which asked members to "deal effectively with the significant and growing problem posed by spam" and calling upon all stakeholders to adopt a multi...
[November 1, 2006, 11:44]
Spam under fire from UK government
News Several top tech firms took part earlier this moth in a summit meeting hosted by CNET Networks -- publisher of ZDNet UK -- to discuss way of tackling the issue. Internet and mobile phone users will be better protected from spam under proposals...
[March 27, 2003, 13:28]
Microsoft proposes ID solution for spam
News Microsoft on Thursday is holding a summit with members of the Email Service Provider Coalition to address the use of Sender ID technology as a standard to fight spam and phishing. Fighting the annoyance of spam and the dangers of fraud activity...
[August 13, 2004, 8:40]
Mobile operators denounce spam
News At last month's spam summit at the House of Commons, delegates expressed similar concerns but for reasons not so operator-focused. The European arm of the GSM Association has given its guarded backing for initiatives unveiled by the European...
[July 24, 2003, 8:56]
Anti-spam laws may 'do more harm than good'
News Muris' luncheon remarks came a few months after the FTC organised a landmark spam summit, which brought together email marketers, technology companies and Internet service providers. Anti-spam proposals in Congress are not strict enough and would...
[August 20, 2003, 11:10]
Anti-spam firms hit back at Gartner claims
News Yesterday at Gartner's IT Security Summit, Gartner vice-president Victor Wheatman said that the level of spam getting through the network was falling and it was now possible to work again. Anti-spam vendors were speculating on Tuesday about analyst...
[September 21, 2004, 16:00]
US anti-spam law nears reality
News The agenda of a United Nations summit this week in Geneva urges governments to "take appropriate action on spam at national and international levels. The US Congress on Monday gave final approval to the first federal law regulating spam, which...
[December 9, 2003, 8:35]
Forum tries to save email from spam-traps
News JamSpam was a one-day summit for industry leaders to discuss technical solutions to the spam epidemic. A group of email marketers on Tuesday set up an Internet forum for people to air grievances about spam filters -- which can swallow legitimate...
[February 19, 2003, 14:33]
Yahoo and Cisco put anti-spam standard forward
News The announcement of the IETF submission comes a day before the start in New York of the Email Authentication Implementation Summit 2005, where experts will discuss email security technology and encourage its adoption.
[July 12, 2005, 10:00]
