Commtouch Finds Spam -Not Flowers -In Full Bloom as Mother's Day Approaches.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2003 Anti-spam solution provider to donate findings gathered from its Anti-Spam Adaptive Protection Center to nation's leading public policy universities Commtouch(R) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CTCH CTCH Common Traffic Channel ), a developer and provider of anti-spam technology and services, today announced that, as Mother's Day approaches, the company's ASAP (chat) asap - As soon as possible. ! (Anti-Spam Adaptive Protection) Service Center has detected more than 4,000 unique spam blasts linked to the topic of Mother's Day, with each blast reaching anywhere from 100,000 to tens of millions of e-mail users. Commtouch's ASAP! Service Center detects new spam attacks as soon as they are launched across the Internet. The Service Center provides real-time spam detection services by collecting information from multiple sources about new spam attacks, analyzing the input using Commtouch's patent-pending technology, identifying and detecting spam, classifying the data, matching its stored information against outstanding queries for spam detection and replying with a prioritized and accurate resolution - all within 300 milliseconds. In the period May 1-6 this year, the Service Center identified 4,129 unique attacks related to Mother's Day themes. "Commtouch spends its time and expertise detecting and stopping spam for enterprises. We do not have the expertise or time to analyze the empirical data that is a byproduct of our work, so we are approaching the leading academic experts in marketing, sociology and public policy - people who can take the necessary time to study spam in a societal context," said Gideon Mantel, Commtouch CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Spam is an insidious thief of time
Commtouch's Mantel believes that a combination of technology, legislation and personal commitment to ethics are needed to stop spam. Commtouch is makings its findings available to Professor Lawrence Lessig at Stanford University, who is publicly supporting the federal anti-spam "bounty" legislation proposed by Rep Zoe Lofgren (D, San Jose). In addition, the company is approaching the universities named by U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report Weekly newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. U.S. News was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence (1888–1973) to cover important domestic events; he founded World Report in 1945 to treat world news. The two magazines were merged in 1948. as the top 10 in public policy: Harvard University; Syracuse University; Indiana University, Bloomington; Princeton University; University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal ; University of Georgia Organization The President of the University of Georgia (as of 2007, Michael F. Adams) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents. ; The Ford School of Public Policy at University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. ; Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). ; University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission ; and University of Texas, Austin. About Commtouch Commtouch Software Ltd. is a developer and provider of proprietary anti-spam solutions. The company's core technologies reflect its twelve years of experience as a leading vendor of email software applications, almost half of them as a global ASP for hosted messages to more than 30 million users. Commtouch is headquartered in Netanya, Israel and its subsidiary, Commtouch Inc., is based in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . The company was founded in 1991 and has been publicly traded since 1999 (Nasdaq:CTCH - News). To learn more about Commtouch solutions, visit the web site at http://www.commtouch.com. Notes: For an interview with Commtouch, please contact Michael Krems at krems@kremspr.com. For product information, please see 3/25/03 release: Commtouch Announces Pre-emptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. Enterprise Solution to Spam Problem, on the web at http://www.commtouch.com/news/english/2003/pr_030325.shtml This press release contains forward-looking statements, including projections about our business, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. For example, statements in the future tense, and statements including words such as "expect", "plan", "estimate", anticipate", or "believe" are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on information available to us at the time of the release; we assume no obligation to update any of them. The statements in this release are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could differ materially from our current expectations as a result of numerous factors, including business conditions and growth or deterioration in the Internet market, commerce and the general economy both domestic as well as international; fewer than expected new-partner relationships; competitive factors including pricing pressures; technological developments, and products offered by competitors; availability of qualified staff for expansion; and technological difficulties and resource constraints encountered in developing new products as well as those risks described in the Company's Annual Reports on Form 20-F and reports on Form 6-K, which are available through http://www.sec.gov. Note: Commtouch(R) is a registered trademark and ASAP!(TM) is a trademark of Commtouch Software Ltd. Other terms and product names in this document may be trademarks or registered trademarks of other companies or individuals. |
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