Spam Cube, Inc was a
high-tech
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startup company
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based in the midtown area of New York City. The company invented and manufactured the Spam Cube, a
SaaS
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SaaS is co ...
(Security As A Service) network security hardware device for consumers that blocked
spam e-mail,
computer viruses and
phishing
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. The company invented a SaaS delivery platform technology that enables any home networking
embedded device such as a Broadband cable modem,
DSL modem,
Wireless router
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or
Femtocell to offer network Security As A Service technology that blocks spam e-mail, computer viruses and phishing. The Spam Cube SaaS platform gave the consumer the choice to select spam e-mail, computer viruses, and phishing blocking technology that was powered by either
McAfee
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or
Symantec Symantec may refer to:
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managed enterprise Security As A Service technology.
Trademark Issues
In May 2006, the company ran into a costly legal battle with
Hormel Foods over its trademark "Spam Cube". Hormel Foods claimed that the company's "Spam Cube" brand name was causing confusion amongst consumers and that consumers were not able to tell the difference between the Spam Cube, a cube-shaped home network security device, and Hormel's cube-shaped SPAM canned meat product. In February 2008, the company won the legal battle against Hormel Foods in the United States. The
SPAM trademark dispute was widely publicized since the dispute would have forced the company into
bankruptcy had
Hormel Foods won.
Competitors
Three years after Spam Cube released its technology,
Cisco Systems
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teamed up with
Trend Micro
is an American-Japanese multinational cyber security software company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and Irving, Texas, United State.Other regional headquarters and R&D centers are located around East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, an ...
to manufacture the
Linksys Home Network Defender.
Linksys and Trend Micro competed directly with Spam Cube for market share in the
embedded device SaaS market.
See also
*
Anti-spam appliances
Anti-spam appliances are software or hardware devices integrated with on-board software that implement e-mail spam filtering and/or anti-spam for instant messaging (also called "spim") and are deployed at the gateway or in front of the mail serve ...
References
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External links
Spam Cube, Inc , Home PagePicture of Spam Cube article on the front page of the March 30 edition of the New York TimesNY1 interview with David J. Soares, CBDO of Spam CubeABC News interview with Joseph P. Marino, CEO of Spam CubeSpam Cube's LinkedIn Company Profile
Companies based in New York City
Networking companies of the United States
Companies established in 2003
Privately held companies based in New York (state)