Benchmark Internet Group launched Bulk Email Dedicated Server Program, its email service for permission-based, high-volume email senders. Gives clients their own IP address and server space and helps them foster goodwill with ISPs. Available immediately.... read more »
IFModules launched www.emailmanagement.blogspot.com, its email management blog. Provide users with tips and tricks on how to use the eMail Manager application as well as being a source for finding links to related blogs and important news on managing email and other information on the web.... read more »
Article discussing the future of GroupWise with Novell’s primary interest appearing to be SUSE Linux and a variety of other products and technologies, not GroupWise.... read more »
RIM announced it is adding additional APIs to the BlackBerry Java Development Environment to enable the next wave in mobile application development. New APIs: mobile multi-media API for Java allowing developers to embed custom audio and video content into applications, camera APIs that allow developers to invoke the camera application and access pictures taken with the camera, and XML and web Services support, among others.... read more »
O3SIS released Multi Channel Push Mail, its consumer-oriented push mail solution. Key features: support for multiple client technologies, including MMS, OMA-DS, OMA-EMN, P-IMAP, POP3, and IMAP4, no client software to install, and server automatically configures a new user’s phone over the mobile network, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Smith Micro Software announced StuffIt Wireless Windows Mobile Edition, its compression utility for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smart Phones and PDAs. Key features: ability to compress JPEG images 20 to 30 percent, compress and send images via email or FTP from an internet enabled device, compress multiple images into a single archive, among others. Available 2Q2007.... read more »
IBM and 3Com announced System i Integrated Collaboration, their unified communications solution. Integrates IP telephony with email, messaging and core business process applications. Available 2Q2007.... read more »
ZANTAZ released “Three Simple Steps to Decide Between a Hosted and Licensed Content Archiving Solution,” its whitepaper. Covers how to compare and contrast hosted vs. licensed content archiving solutions and make a purchase decision that best meets the needs of an organization. Available immediately. read more »
ZANTAZ released “Using Archiving to Ease Exchange Server 2007 Migration,” its whitepaper. Covers how to streamline and simplify the process of upgrading or migrating from previous versions of Microsoft Exchange Server to Exchange Server 2007. Available immediately. read more »
Polycom announced it has completed of the acquisition of SpectraLink, a provider of wireless telephony solutions. read more »
IBM and 3Com announced System i Integrated Collaboration, their unified communications solution. Integrates IP telephony with email, messaging and core business process applications. Available 2Q2007. read more »
McAfee announced the McAfee OK, its mobile content inspection and certification program mobile content aggregators and network operators. Inspects mobile content such as ringer tones, images, video, or applications, and certifies that it does not contain any malicious or inappropriate material. read more »
GoWare released DoMo HomePage, its personal mobile portal. Allows users to create personalized mobile portals for the delivery of their web-based and PC-based content through a single page on their mobile browsers. Available immediately. read more »
Symantec announced Symantec Mobile Security Suite 5.0, its security and data protection solution for Windows Mobile smartphones and PDAs. Key features: antivirus, firewall, anti-SMS spam, and data encryption technologies, among others. Available May 2007. read more »
Zimbra released an alpha version of Zimbra Desktop, its web email solution. Key features: open-source alternative to existing mail servers and clients, requires users to download software that will synchronize with a Zimbra server, and beta version will work with POP and IMAP e-mail servers and include access to the Zimbra’s calendaring server, among others.... read more »
IT Security released “Email Security Comparison Guide,” its whitepaper. Analyzes the 16 leading vendors examining the basic features needed for any email security system, such as encryption, MTA capabilities, filtering, and more. Available immediately. read more »
Article discussing alternatives to upgrading to Exchange 2007. read more »
Earlier this month, Microsoft hosted more than 1,700 of Microsoft’s Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) in Redmond for a week of closed-door meetings about future product roadmaps. The meetings also served to solicit feedback on all manner of areas from some of their most loyal supporters, and some of their harshest critics. I joined them for... read more »
Article discussing MessageGate’s suggestions for managing the legal requirements for message retention.... read more »
InBoxer announced an updated support statement for InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance, its email archiving solution. Adds support for Lotus Notes and Domino. Available immediately.... read more »
Tungle released Tungle, its P2P meeting coordinator. Key features: Microsoft Outlook 2003 integration, view the availability of other trusted Tungle users to suggest appropriate meeting times, grant different levels of access, among others. Available immediately in a controlled beta distribution.... read more »
Article discussing an upcoming Yankee Group report that concludes the real threat to Exchange isn’t IBM but Linux and open-source-based email servers.... read more »
Article discussing information security, the threats and risks, and techniques for monitoring and protecting a network.... read more »
Article discussing an upcoming Yankee Group report that concludes the real threat to Exchange isn’t IBM but Linux and open-source-based email servers. read more »
Funambol released “Beyond Blackberry and Windows Mobile: What Mass Market Consumers Want in Mobile Email,” its report based on its recent survey of 500 people and their attitudes toward mobile email. Finds that consumers want mobile email, the majority is willing to pay for it and many will be making the move to adopt it within the year. Available immediately.... read more »
ColdSpark released “ColdSpark – The Future of Email,” its whitepaper. Examines three distinct solutions to meet the most common and compelling email infrastructure challenges faced by enterprises today.... read more »
Article discussing the several options for shielding email from spam and other malware, including software solutions, appliances, and managed services.... read more »
Kaspersky Lab released version 5.7 of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Novell NetWare. Key enhancements: compatibility with Kaspersky Administration Kit, improved mechanism for launching updating tasks, and optimized antivirus database updating from local update sources, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group will hold MAAWG 10th General Meeting, June 5-7, 2007 in Dublin, Ireland. Will provide opportunities for dialogue among peers combined with presentations from technology and public policy experts.... read more »
EU Spam Symposium 2007 will be held May 24 & 25, 2007 at Technikum Wien in Vienna, Austria. Presentations from 4 keynote speakers along with parallel discussion forums hosted by a selection of speakers.... read more »
MIT Spam Conference 2007 will be held on March 30, 307 in room 34-101 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Covers undesired, unsolicited electronic communications including phishing, IM spam, SMS spam, stock pump-and-dumps, email con games, exploit marketing, zombie bots and bot armies, and the like.... read more »