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Nuance Communications Launches Nuance Mobile Speech Platform

Nuance Communications released Nuance Mobile Speech Platform, its speech recognition solution for mobile applications that allows users to speak SMS or e-mail messages using, large vocabulary speech recognition. Key components: Nuance Local Search to search business names and categories, residential listings, etc.; Nuance Mobile Navigation for voice destination entry; and Nuance Content Search to search... read more »

Alcatel reports third quarter 2006 results

Alcatel released results for 3Q2006, ended September 30. Revenue increased 1% to €3.34 billion ($4.18 billion) with net income of €155 million ($194 million). read more »

McAfee, Inc. Reports Botnets Threaten National Infrastructure and Security

McAfee released “Killing Botnets: A View from the Trenches”, its case study. Highlighted the serious threat botnets pose to corporations, government organizations, national infrastructure and homeland security. Available immediately. read more »

Lucent Reports Results for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006

Lucent Technologies released results for 4Q2006, ended September 30. Revenue increased 5% to $2.56 billion with a GAAP net income of $371 million. read more »

F-Secure continues solid and profitable growth

F-Secure released results for 3Q2006, ended September 30. Revenue increased 28% to €20 million ($25 million) with net income of €3.8 million ($4.76 million). read more »

SurfControl Launches On-demand Services and Product Enhancements Delivering Customizable, Comprehensive Security Protection

SurfControl announced WebDefense and MailControl, its gateway and desktop security solutions. Provides an “in the cloud” layer of protection by leveraging on-demand technology obtained through the acquisition of BlackSpider Technologies to analyze email and web threats in real-time. read more »

IBM Announces Comprehensive Business Communications Software

IBM released Coginord Mapping Suite, its business communication solution. Key features: document design, print management, and multi-channel document delivery. Available immediately. read more »

Commtouch Unveils New IP Reputation Service Based on Global Real-Time Data

Commtouch announced Commtouch IP Reputation Service, its IP reputation service. Analyzes senders’ addresses using Recurrent Pattern Detection technology delivering real-time classification for each IP address. Available immediately. read more »

Commtouch Now Using IP Reputation

Increasing numbers of spam and virus control vendors are implementing an "IP reputation" layer for their email filtering offerings. The latest is Commtouch Software. In essence, an IP reputation service maintains a database of addresses on the Internet that are known to send good or bad content. It maintains lists of the IP addresses and... read more »

Vircom’s Modus has Enhanced Visibility and Reporting so Administrators Anticipate, Prevent Email Problems

Vircom announced version 4.4 of Modus, its email assurance solution. Key enhancements: audit log for tracking and monitoring email traffic and trends, foreign-language spam filtering, and improved quarantine reports, among others. read more »

FutureSoft Upgrades Anti-Spyware Capabilities of DynaComm i:scan

FutureSoft released version 6.5 of DynaComm i:scan, its endpoint security solution. Key enhancements: distributed anti-spyware protection, USB security management, and application and desktop lockdown, among others. Available immediately. read more »

New Stamp On Email

Article discussing Featuretisements BlueTie’s solution for banner advertising. read more »

WhatCounts Releases the e-Communications Suite 6.0 with Pivotal Veracity Integration and Enhanced Application Programming Interfaces

WhatCounts announced version 6.0 of e-Communications Suite, its strong email marketing solution. Key enhancements: Pivotal Veracity eDelivery Tracker integration, enhanced APIs, and WhatCounts Conversion Tracker solution enhancements, among others. Available immediately. read more »

Cryptolex Trust Systems Unveils New Approach to Secure Identity Verification

Cryptolex Trust Systems announced Mobio, its handheld authentication solution. Leverages cryptography to create a strong backend trust solution. Available immediately. read more »

Azaleos Delivers Intelligently Managed Email Solution for Microsoft Exchange

Azaleos released version 2.0 of OneStop Managed Services, its managed email solution for Exchange. Key enhancements: ArchiveXchange archiving solution, ViewXchange visualization and reporting system, and SecureXchange remote command and control system, among others. Available immediately. read more »

Cisco Introduces a New Way to Communicate and Collaborate

Cisco announced Cisco TelePresence, its video conferencing solution. Utilizes ultra-high quality, two-way video and audio for remote collaboration. Available immediately. read more »

Microsoft Promotes Interoperability for E-Mail Safety Solutions With Sender ID Framework

Microsoft announced that its Sender ID Framework specification for e-mail authentication is now available under the Open Specification Promise, its open source initiative. read more »

AT&T Posts Strong Third-Quarter 2006 Earnings Growth

AT&T released results for 3Q2006, ended September 30. Revenue decreased 5% to $4.4 billion with a net income of $2.2 billion. read more »

Aladdin Knowledge Systems Reports Third Quarter 2006 Financial Results

Aladdin Knowledge Systems released results for 3Q2006, ended September 30. Revenue increased 7 % to $21.0 million with a GAAP net income of $3.3 million. read more »

Xerox Reports Third-Quarter Earnings of 54 Cents Per Share

Xerox released results for 3Q2006, ended September 30. Revenue increased 2% to $3.8 billion with a net income of $536 million. read more »

Declude Offers Total Email Defense, Including Email Vulnerability Protection, As Managed Service Offering for Small to Medium Businesses

Declude announced Declude Mailprotector, its managed email security service. Incorporates antivirus, anti-spam, hijack prevention and Security Flaw Scanning technologies into a single offering. Available immediately. read more »

Microsoft Promises Sender ID Remains Open, But There’s No News Here

Microsoft today announced that it has added the Sender ID Framework email authentication specification to the list of Microsoft technologies covered under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise (OSP). This essentially means that Microsoft promises not to take action to protect its patents and other intellectual property (IP) related to these technologies. The idea is to... read more »

Microsoft Promises Open Email Security

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Avistar Communications Reports Financial Results For The Third Quarter Of 2006

Avistar Communications released results for 3Q2006, ended September 30. Revenue increased 306% to $7.3 million with net income of $1.8 million. read more »

Hyperion Reports Strong First Quarter 2007 Results

Hyperion Solutions released results for 1Q2007, ended September 30, 2006. Revenue increased 17 % to $199 million with a GAAP net income of $11.9 million. read more »

Premiere Global Services Reports Third Quarter 2006 Results

Premiere Global Services released results for 3Q2006, ended September 30. Revenue increased 2% to $122 million with net income of $6.72 million. read more »

MessageLabs Reports Record Profits and Revenues

MessageLabs announced $60 million in new funding provided by Lloyds TSB Bank. read more »

Google Announces Third Quarter 2006 Results

Google released results for 3Q2006, ended September 30. Revenue increased 70 % to $2.69 billion with a GAAP net income of $733 million. read more »

VeriSign Reports Third Quarter 2006 Results

VeriSign released results for 3Q2006, ended September 30. Revenue increased 2% to $400 million. read more »

Instant messaging: Problems and solutions

Article discussing IM security concerns and what options there are to address them. read more »

EMC Enhances Captiva InputAccel Software for Improved Enterprise Input Management

EMC announced version 5.3 of EMC Captiva InputAccel, its document capture and imaging solution. Key enhancements: ability to capture Japanese, Korean and Chinese language characters and bi-directional communication with EMC Documentum ECM platform. Available November 2006. read more »

Email Security Buyer’s Guide

ITSECURITY released “Email Security Buyer’s Guide,” its whitepaper. Helps understand the risks, analyze requirements, and decide what options are best. Available immediately. read more »

Email That Doesn’t Leave an Electronic Record

People need to be able to have conversations that don’t leave records. That’s true in business — such as when you want to bat about ideas about how well someone is doing. And it’s true in your private life — such as when you want to murmur sweet nothings into that special person’s ear (yes,... read more »

Polycom Reports Third Quarter 2006 Earnings

Polycom released results for 3Q2006, ended September 30. Revenue increased 20% to $173 million with a GAAP net income of $17.1 million. read more »

Airwide Solutions brings unprecedented protection to SMS messages

Airwide Solutions announced AirGuard AntiSpam, its anti-spam solution for mobile messaging. Key features: source validation which protects against spoof and fake fraud, anti-flooding to protect the network from floods of messages, and message filtering which detects and removes spam, scam and over-the-air messages and can help prevent the download of viruses to smart phones, among... read more »