SPIT FOLLOWS SPAM AND SPIM
If email spam and its instant messaging equivalent “spim” are driving you up the wall, take a deep breath. Hot on their heels comes “spit”: voicemail spam via internet telephony. The term has been coined by Qovia of Frederick, Maryland, a firm that has begun marketing a spit filter to early adopters of internet-based phones. While the deluge hasn’t happened yet, Qovia warns that it is only a matter of time.
Internet telephony, also known as Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), is the practice of making cheap phone calls by sending voice data to addresses…
