
16th April 2007, 04:54 AM
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Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year
A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication.
Text messaging and voice over IP (VoIP) (define) calling, especially among younger consumers and workers, are becoming the communications means of choice. IDC estimates that the size of business e-mail volumes sent annually worldwide in 2007 will approach 5 exabytes (define), nearly doubling the amount over the past two years.
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