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Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam - it's everywhere. And this year the total number of spam email messages sent worldwide (10.8 trillion) will surpass the number of person-to-person emails sent (10.5 trillion) for the first time ever, according to market researcher IDC. Source: USA Today. Some frightening stats from the piece: one in 87 emails is tagged as phishing scams now, compared with one in 500 a year ago, according to email security firm MessageLabs. No wonder Stephen Timms has called in the telecoms companies to try and get more capacity into the UK broadband network... All fingers and thumbs It's official - women are better multi-taskers than men - just look at how women use their mobile phones. Apparently three quarters of women said that they prepare food while using their mobile phone, and half put on makeup. But there's also a downside to mobile multitasking: some 47% of respondents admitted to sending a romantic or controversial text message to the wrong person, 56% of whom were women. Source: Nokia survey via vnunet.com. Rotten borough? Dodgy voting practices in a Wall Street Journal reader's poll on holiday shopping intentions - the iPod scored 62%, with Microsoft's rival Zune player (has anyone bought one? especially the brown one?) grabbing 28%... Surely not. Source: CrunchGear. Don't believe the hype Oh and as if we did not know, the mobile internet has failed to live up to the hype (no, really?). Source: New York Times.