Spam Skyrockets 59% September to November; 91% of All Email is Now Spam
Postini,
a provider of on-demand Integrated Message Management services making
electronic communications like email, instant messaging (IM) and the web
more compliant, productive, secure and reliable. processed nearly 70
billion email connections from September to November,
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New
orders for manufactured durable goods in October decreased $19.0 billion
or 8.3% to $210 billion, 
Total existing-home sales
rose a modest 0.5% in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate1 of 6.24 million units from an upwardly revised pace of 6.21 million in September, but were 11.5% below the 7.05 million-unit level
of October 2005, 
The
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (
Personal
locator services based on the GPS-enabled mobile phone will grow from
their current low user-base of 500,000 in North America to a total of more
than 20 million subscribers in 2011, 
eBay
led the top online shopping destinations on Black Friday with 7.5 million
unique visitors, followed by Amazon and Wal-Mart Stores with 3.4 million
and 3.2 million unique visitors, respectively, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
The
Weather Channel, Yahoo! Weather and AccuWeather achieved mobile reach that
outpaced their PC reach. All three sites had mobile-to-PC reach index
scores above 120, pointing to significantly stronger reach among mobile
Web users than among PC Web users), 
Akamai
Technologies 
A
delegation of 250 American business executives, representing more than 180
companies in sectors including health care, information technology, energy
and telecommunication, is visiting India to explore new opportunities to
invest in India and develop partnerships with local companies as part of
the the two-day "India Business Summit".
315
ETFs: Total assets in exchange-traded funds were up about 29% from the
end of last year, according ICI. There were 315 ETFs in October, of which
228 tracked domestic stock indexes with assets of $268 billion; 81 ETFs
tracked international equity indexes with assets of $95.4 billion; and six
tracked bond indexes with assets of $19.9 billion. (
