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By Hannah Hoag of Nature magazine An unusual 'help wanted' advertisement arrived in the inboxes of Canadian scientists last week. [More]

A company that started out looking to join the social commerce revolution found an opportunity in simply being useful to people trying to manage email receipts. Inboxes are the new wallets--stuffed with too many receipts to even begin to organize. That’s why Project Slice is today launching a new application that will automatically scan your emails and collect all your purchase information in a single place.

Spam comprises upwards of 80 percent of incoming e-mail , despite monumental efforts by help desks and security software companies to defeat it. The reason spam volumes continue to grow is that such efforts are often misplaced and fail to hit spammers where it hurts. Instead of trying to shut down the hydra-like tangle of Web servers that route spam to our inboxes, a much more focused attack should be made to disable payment for the goods (Viagra pills, Bosley hair loss treatment, Space Bag storage, etc.) that spam is used to advertise, according to a team of researchers presenting their findings Tuesday at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, Calif.