Today, very few people access email on their cellphones. And for those that do, there’s often a choice of client software you can use. It’s too much effort to download and configure this software. As a mass market emerges for cellphone-based email, most people will use software built into the phone, provided by vendors such... read more »
I was working with my email the other day, using my favorite email and calendar product, and I received an email invitation to a meeting. When I opened the email, my application "recognized" it as a calendar invite, and gave me the opportunity to accept, decline, delegate or recommend another date. Sounds simple, right? Except... read more »
Early teamspace products often had rich clients. But it’s clear that’s wrong. They must be web browsers. You want to be able to set up teamspaces at will. Often, you’ll want to do this with people that aren’t members of your organization. You won’t be able to make many assumptions about the workstations they’re using.... read more »
McAfee released McAfee Secure Messaging Service for Small Businesses and McAfee Secure Messaging Service for Enterprises, its email threat prevention and policy management solutions formerly entitled McAfee Managed Mail Protection. Key features: based on Postini Perimeter Manager, provides email protection against spam, phishing, viruses, inappropriate content, denial of service attacks and directory harvest attacks, and... read more »
This webinar discusses the most important trends of the next five years. Topics include spam control, email retention, mobile messaging devices, encrypted email, instant messaging, migration to relational data structures, and voice integration. ... read more »
There’s a growing convergence between scanning for email malware, and scanning for web and instant messaging malware. Eg, you need to scan both for virus-infected file transfers, spyware downloads, and traffic that has inappropriate content. Clearly, a lot of the technology that applies to the one channel, should apply to the other channel. And you’d... read more »
Trend Micro released version 6.1 of Trend Micro Housecall Server Edition, its online threat detection and removal software. Key enhancements: detection and removal of spyware and adware, security scan feature to identify missing security patches and other vulnerabilities, and a re-designed user interface, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
There are a growing number of products that scan electronic communications (especially email), to enforce compliance with laws, industry regulations, or organization policy. The first one to get well established was MIMEsweeper. Other more recent players include MessageGate, ProofPoint, Tumbleweed, and Vontu. Vendors always talk breezily about the policy definition. However, the really difficult thing... read more »
McAfee announced support in McAfee Virex for Macintosh, its anti-virus solution, for the Mac OS X 10.4 operating system. Available August 2005.... read more »
Directories were once viewed as a potentially general-purpose IT building block. In practice, they have never been used in this way. There are a variety of reasons for this. Directory vendors didn’t make directories either available or easily usable for this purpose. For example, Microsoft’s Active Directory until relatively recently (see Active Directory Application Mode... read more »
It’s cheaper to provide live chat on your website than phone and email support. The average cost of a chat is around $1.50/chat. It’s about $2.50 for an email, and $6 to $8 for a phone call. Live chats are cheaper because: On average an operator can respond to 5 chats at a time. With... read more »
We recently came across ScanSafe (http://www.scansafe.net/scansafe/index.html). This is a hosted service that scans web traffic for malware. The main services are: Virus control Content filtering. Eg, allows administrators to limit access to gambling and porno websites Spyware detection and control It’s the first such hosted service we’ve come across. Hosted email malware services (eg, MessageLabs,... read more »
Article discussing the upcoming release of the 10g version of Oracle Collaboration Suite which includes new content management capabilities, IM, voice capabilities, wireless push e-mail for mobile phones, wireless calendar synchronization and a new web-based e-mail client.... read more »
Microsoft’s Hosted Messaging & Collabration Solution is gathering momentum. Early customers include AT&T Global, BT, and France Telecom. HMC is software that lets a service provider offer a hosted version of Exchange, Live Communications Server, and Windows SharePoint Portal Server. The good news for Microsoft is that presumeably many big name telcos will sign up.... read more »
Symantec announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Sygate Technologies, a provider of endpoint compliance solutions.... read more »
EMC announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rainfinity, a provider of virtualization solutions for heterogeneous networked attached storage and file system environments. The acquisition, valued at less than $100 million, is expected to be completed by the end of August 2005.... read more »
Quest Software released version 2.0 of Quest Archive Manager for Exchange. Key enhancements: compliance filtering, single-instance storage, and discovery based on specific criteria, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
This report describes and assesses Microsoft’s mobile messaging platform, which includes Windows Mobile and Exchange Server components. The report also presents observations about the mobile messaging market and industry trends in this sector.... read more »
EMC recently updated us on its teamspace product, eRoom. The main features it provides are: Shared folders Project planner Shared calendar Version control and checkin/checkout Integrated web conferencing Integration with email for alerts, notifications All clients run a browser Optional Windows browser plug-in, providing thingslike drag and drop What struck us is that this is... read more »
McAfee released the 2006 versions of its consumer security software, McAfee VirusScan, McAfee Personal Firewall Plus, McAfee AntiSpyware, McAfee SpamKiller, McAfee Privacy Service, and McAfee QuickClean. Key enhancements: anti-phishing browser plug-in for McAfee SpamKiller, automatic spyware detection for McAfee VirusScan, Automated, and daily signature updates McAfee VirusScan and McAfee AntiSpyware, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Early stages vendors have a problem when selling to large organizations. The latter naturally, and reasonably, have an aversion to working with small firms with unpredictable futures. Working with large integrators, such as IBM Global Services or Logica/CMG, can be a good way to get around this. The integrator takes responsibility for delivering the customer... read more »
Google SMS (http://www.google.com/sms/) lets you send short text questions on your mobile phone. You can do things like request stock quotes, or find a local hospital or restaurant, or look up a dictionary definition. For the moment, this won’t be used a lot by business people: In North America, business people aren’t used to SMS... read more »
EMC announced version 7.3 of Documentum Enterprise eRoom, its team communication and management solution. Key enhancements: new dashboard capabilities, IM integration, and enhanced content server integration, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Collaborative technology is making it easier and easier for people to work together, when they’re not physically in the same place. Sometimes, it’s necessary to have virtual meetings, because team members are geographically distributed. But it turns out that even…... read more »
Hummingbird released results for 3Q2005, ended June 30. Revenue increased 10% to $61.7 million with a GAAP net loss of $1.9 million.... read more »
iUpload sells hosted blog services. Some customers are doing very interesting things with the firm’s Community Publisher (http://www.iupload.com/products/communities/index.asp).This is sold to businesses. They use it to create a community of bloggers, and these can generate very valuable content for the…... read more »
This report describes and assesses the Livelink family of offerings for email archiving, management, and monitoring from Open Text. It also presents observations about the industry context of this offering.... read more »
A wirelessly-connected handheld device has two major business benefits, that stand out: It can connect to the office messaging system. So you can keep current with emails, new calendar events, and so on It can provide access to production systems,…... read more »
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Stellent released results for 1Q2006, ended June 30, 2005. Revenue increased 26% to $28.6 million with a GAAP net income of $1.1 million.... read more »
Open Text announced Open Text’s Livelink ECM – Document Archiving for Microsoft SharePoint, its content archiving solution for Microsoft SharePoint. Key features: archive documents from SharePoint, archive content on a variety of secure storage media, and rule-based archiving, among others.... read more »
Mimosa Systems released NearPoint Disaster Recovery Option, its Exchange Server data management solution. Supports Double-Take, offering NearPoint users local and remote recovery of Exchange and NearPoint data in the event of a disaster. Available immediately.... read more »
Symantec announced Symantec Email Security and Availability. Key features: anti-spam, anti-virus, and archiving, among others. Available immediately.... read more »