Despite frozen credit and slow consumer spending, a (precious) few sectors are thriving. Successful industries sell anything with the word “dollar” in it, lipstick, Wii and Spam.
Two weeks after hosting provider McColo was shut down, the volume of spam is increasing again as stranded botnets get connected to new domains.
In largest judgment in history of Can-Spam Act, Canadian man is ordered to pay the company $873 million for allegedly spamming Facebook users.
Hormel Foods productions have yet to see the effect of the slumping economy. In fact, its Austin, Minn. factory has been operating overtime to make more Spam.
MessageLabs cites demise of one ISP and finds that the peak time of day for sexually explicit spam falls around the noon hour.
The spam study doesn’t mean much in terms of who actually wins the election, but it does show spammers are staying on top of what names are hot among Net users.