Kaspersky Lab released “The evolution of self-defense technologies in malware,” its analytical report on the evolution of self-defense technologies in malicious programs. Provides an overview of how malicious programs have evolved to combat security solutions and which self-defense techniques are currently used. Available immediately.... read more »
Visto announced and update to Visto Mobile, its mobile email solution. Adds support for the Apple iPhone. Available 3Q2007.... read more »
AOL released the beta version of AOL Mail, its web-based e-mail service, and AIM WIMZI Widget, its solution that allows bloggers and website owners to IM with site visitors. AOL Mail key enhancements: AIM integration and POP3 access. WIMZI Widget key features: communicates with the widget owner’s AIM client, integrated with the owner’s AIM Buddy List feature, and widget owner’s online presence status is indicated with a highlighted icon and screen names, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Interactive Intelligence released the findings of a customer survey. Shows hosted communications services, video, unified messaging, and VoIP deployments are on the rise.... read more »
LoadSpring Solutions today announced hosting capabilities for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 through its application hosting and management system, CAM Console. ... read more »
Messageware announced version 3.0 of CalendarShare, its calendar enhancement solution for Outlook Web Access. Adds the ability set delegate access to calendars from within Outlook Web Access.... read more »
PeopleCube announced an updated version of WebEvent, on-line event scheduling and calendaring solution. Key enhancements: expanded search capabilities, improved email reminder functionality, and support for mod_perl 2 and Apache 2.0 on Unix, among others. ... read more »
Article discussing how to improve email campaign effectiveness through the use reporting.... read more »
Article discussing Microsoft’s announced plans to integrate disparate Windows Live products for IM, e-mail, blog authoring and photo sharing into a single downloadable suite for consumers.... read more »
Article discussing Microsoft’s announced plans to integrate disparate Windows Live products for IM, e-mail, blog authoring and photo sharing into a single downloadable suite for consumers. read more »
Messageware announced version 3.0 of CalendarShare, its calendar enhancement solution for Outlook Web Access. Adds the ability set delegate access to calendars from within Outlook Web Access. read more »
PeopleCube announced an updated version of WebEvent, on-line event scheduling and calendaring solution. Key enhancements: expanded search capabilities, improved email reminder functionality, and support for mod_perl 2 and Apache 2.0 on Unix, among others. read more »
Article discussing how next-generation Unified Messaging solutions will break down today’s silos of email, instant messaging, mobile and VoIP telephony, and audio-, video- and web-conferencing.... read more »
IDconnex released ezAuth, its open source email authentication module. Allows users to log on to their email account with having to enter the login information.... read more »
Sunbelt Software announced version 2.5 of CounterSpy, its anti-spyware solution. Key enhancements: improved active protection performance, support for Windows Vista 64-bit, and architecture enhancements to VIPRE technology, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Article discussing a concern from the vendors of security solutions that current evaluations of their products do not fully test all the new technologies designed to protect machines.... read more »
Exclaimer released Exclaimer Store Compressor, its tool that minimizes the size of the Exchange mail store by compressing attachments and emails. Key features: enables customization of how and at what intervals Outlook items are manipulated, based on internal IT preferences, messages are minimized by removing Internet headers and any HTML formatting, and attachments are compressed into.zip files, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Article covering a survey of U.S. telecom decision-makers which concluded that funding and security are top issues and discussed how unified communication could help solve some of their issues.... read more »
IDconnex released ezAuth, its open source email authentication module. Allows users to log on to their email account with having to enter the login information. read more »
Some legitimate email marketing senders heavily rely on HTML and images to get their message across. This is a dangerous practice, for several reasons: Images included in the message bloat the message size, increasing your costs and irritating your prospects. Images remotely loaded from your Web servers will not be displayed if the user is... read more »
Mi5 Networks announced Webgate, its line secure web gateway appliances. Key features: URL filtering, anti-spyware, antivirus, and anti-botnet detection and prevention, and intercepts and filters inbound as well as outbound web data streams, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Softalk released Softalk Share Server, its messaging and collaboration server solution. Key features: share both personal and public Outlook folders, simplified setup of users and permissions, and access to folders by user groups, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Mi5 Networks announced Webgate, its line secure web gateway appliances. Key features: URL filtering, anti-spyware, antivirus, and anti-botnet detection and prevention, and intercepts and filters inbound as well as outbound web data streams, among others. Available immediately. read more »
LivePerson announced an agreement to acquire Kasamba, a provider of live expert advice delivered online via real-time chat to consumers, for approximately $40 million. The transaction is expected to close in October 2007. read more »
Iperia released IperiaVX, its unified communications solution. Enables integration of new and existing communications applications into a single, voice-enabled platform. Available immediately. read more »
The OASIS Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI) Technical Committee is developing an open standard for managing symmetric encryption cryptographic keys across the enterprise. The goal is to standardize a royalty free web services protocol that will enable client applications to request symmetric key-management services of a network-based server. read more »
Softalk released Softalk Share Server, its messaging and collaboration server solution. Key features: share both personal and public Outlook folders, simplified setup of users and permissions, and access to folders by user groups, among others. Available immediately. read more »
Google announced updates to Google Apps, its web-based platform for communication and collaboration. Key enhancements: mail migration to transfer existing email data from an IMAP server over to users’ Gmail accounts on Google Apps, shared address book, and increased Gmail attachment size, among others. read more »
Mimosa Systems announced version 3.0 of Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server, its archiving solution. Key enhancements: multi-node grid architecture, version history for Active Directory, and public folder archiving, among others. read more »
BitDefender released BitDefender Security for Mail Servers, BitDefender Security for Exchange and BitDefender Security for Samba, its security solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. Security for Mail Servers and for Exchange provides antivirus, antispyware, antispam, antiphishing, and content and attachment filtering engines. Security for Samba provides antivirus and antispyware protection for Samba network shares. Available immediately.... read more »
Article discussing a Cisco survey of federal IT decision makers which concludes that the coordination of a mobile or remote workforce will be improved through unified communications.... read more »