Financial data still top of the spam list

The proportion of spam in e-mail flows was 69,6% in 2013, which is 2,5 percentage points lower than the previous year. This is according to a summary of spammer activity for 2013 from Kaspersky Lab. The organisation also found that the percentage of e-mails with...

Why e-mail is not under threat from ESN

Whether you loathe it or love it, e-mail is not going away anytime soon. Despite what many naysayers predict, it is still a favoured means of corporate communication with research published in McKinsey’s Quarterly report late last year indicating that workers still...

Ballmer’s e-mail to Microsoft staff

The text of an internal e-mail from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to employees regarding his plan to retire reads as follows: I am writing to let you know that I will retire as CEO of Microsoft within the next 12 months, after a successor is chosen. There is never a...

Sanlam Health enhances e-mail interaction

Sanlam Health, a subsidiary of leading financial services group Sanlam, has streamlined its e-mail management systems by adopting an e-mailtopia program supplied by customer interaction and communications expert Inter-Active Technologies (IAT). Canadian-based...

Retailers turn to trusted marketing methods

To capture and capitalise on mobile traffic growth, retailers are eagerly looking for ways to optimise their digital marketing campaigns across various devices. As a result, top investment priorities include a few tried-and-true favourites: e-mail and paid search....