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Making Headway on Calendar Interoperability
In the 1980s, it was difficult if not impossible to look at someone else’s “public” calendar, see what times were available, and send a request to join you at a meeting. It’s now 2005, and things are looking up. With many of the calendaring products on the market today, you can send a meeting request... read more »
Privacy Requires More Intelligent Filters
Today’s email encryption products frequently have a policy management component. This scans emails, especially outgoing ones, to determine if the email ought to be encrypted. The idea makes sense. The trouble is, that the filters involved are usually too crude….... read more »
Symantec Mobile Security 4.0 For Symbian Protects Smartphones From Viruses, Hackers, And Other Malicious Threats
Symantec announced Symantec Mobile Security 4.0 for Symbian, its antivirus and firewall technologies for Symbian OS-based Series 60 and Series 80 smartphones. Delivers proactive protection against Symbian file-based forms of malicious threats, such as viruses, Trojan horses, and worms. Available immediately.... read more »
Cellphones now richer targets
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VoIP for Small Companies Not Quite Ready
There has been a lot of noise on VOIP. Personal VOIP systems (Skype, Vonage, etc.) are taking off fast. Large organizations can clearly cost-justify VOIP because of infrastructure savings and multi-site support. We needed a new phone system recently, and so it seemed a good chance to look at this technology, and play with some... read more »
Open Text Announces Third Quarter 2005 Financial Results
Open Text released results for 3Q2005, ended March 31. Revenue increased 31% to $105 million with a GAAP net income of $5.3 million.... read more »
McAfee, Inc. Reports First Quarter Revenue of $236 Million
McAfee released results for 1Q2005, ended March 31. Revenue increased 8% to $236 million with net income of $36 million.... read more »
Spam moving to other media?
Several times recently we’ve talked about spam moving from email to other media, such as the web. What do we mean?…... read more »
Lost Laptops Fuelling Encryption Sales?
There have recently been some well-publicized cases of employees losing their laptops, where of course the laptops weren’t encrypted. For example the recent theft of a laptop from UC Berkley that compromised the personal information of nearly 100,000 almuni – or two laptops stolen from a medical group that contained information on nearly twice that... read more »
The Specialized Market for Very High End MTAs
However, some organizations need much higher capacities for their MTAs. Notable in this category are: Email marketing firms, that manage email campaigns for many organizations. Organizations that send out large emailings, that need to be delivered in a short space…... read more »
Symantec Closes Fiscal Year 2005 With Record Revenue And Earnings
Symantec released results for 4Q2005, ended April 1. Revenue increased 15% to $713 million with a GAAP net income of $120 million.... read more »
Incriminating instant messaging
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Proofpoint’s Content Security and Regulatory Compliance Offering
Proofpoint provides an automated mechanism for identifying outbound content that violates policy or regulations, making it easier for IT staff to train the system to recognize infringing content.... read more »
The Key Email Archiving Vendors Aren’t Defined
There’s been an interesting market for email retention and archiving products for about three years. “Interesting” in the sense that users have been buying products and sales increasing by at least 30% annually. Today’s product leaders are KVS, Legato, IXos, and Zantaz/EMS. The leading service offerings are from Iron Mountain and Zantaz. You might think... read more »
VERITAS Software Reports First Quarter 2005 Results
VERITAS released results for 1Q2005, ended March 31. Revenue increased 15% to $559 million with a GAAP net income of $105 million.... read more »
Email Archiving vs Enterprise Content Management
You might, very reasonably, argue that email archiving and retention products are really just a niche in the Enterprise Content Management space. Vendors like Hummingbird and Interwoven are really the natural dominant players, you might say. In principal, this seems correct. After all, email documents are just one type of data structure. But as a... read more »
What’s Happening to Critical Path?
There are three leaders in the specialized business of messaging software for service providers: Sun, OpenWave, and Critical Path. Critical Path is the smaller of the three. It’s roughly an $80M/year business, and a very sick company. Partly it offers a hosted set of services. These are now dying. Critical Path also offers software, which... read more »
How not to be a spammer [6]: Don’t Irritate Your Readers
How can legitimate direct marketers get their messages through more reliably? How can they avoid being branded as a spammer? We wrote about this problem before. See [1] and [2]. This is the fourth of an irregular series of blog…... read more »
Orchestria Secures $21 Million In Funding To Extend Market Leadership
Orchestria announced that it has closed its Series D funding with $21 million from Paladin Capital Group, Goldman Sachs., RRE Ventures, New York City Investment Fund, Benchmark Capital, Constellation Ventures, and Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures.... read more »
BorderWare Releases Version 5.0 Of MXtreme E-Mail Firewall
BorderWare Technologies released version 5.0 of MXtreme Mail Firewall, its email firewall solution. Key enhancements: closer integration with corporate directory services, objectionable content filtering, and upgraded the administrator and user interfaces, among others.... read more »