{"id":101,"date":"2005-03-07T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=101"},"modified":"2005-03-07T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T23:32:00","slug":"spam-to-cost-businesses-50-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Spam To Cost Businesses $50 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techweb.com\/wire\/security\/60402962\">TechWeb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><span class=copy>Spam will cost the world $50 billion in lost productivity and other expenses a research firm said Wednesday, with more than a third of that &#8212; $17 billion &#8212; wasted by U.S. firms. <\/p>\n<p>According to San Francisco-based Ferris Research&#39;s newest report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techweb.com\/encyclopedia\/defineterm.jhtml?term=spam&amp;_requestid=244787\">spam&#39;s<\/a> cost is primarily in lost worker time as employees filter spam, deal with false positives, and query corporate help desks for assistance with the plague. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TechWeb: Spam will cost the world $50 billion in lost productivity and other expenses a research firm said Wednesday, with more than a third of that &#8212; $17 billion &#8212; wasted by U.S. firms. According to San Francisco-based Ferris Research&#39;s newest report, spam&#39;s cost is primarily in lost worker time as employees filter spam, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}