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Email Archiving Beauty Contest: Part 2

In this webinar, participants learn the main differences between leading email archiving products. Several email archiving vendors concisely present their solution, its key strengths, and unique selling propositions. A Q&A session moderated and interpreted by a Ferris analyst follows.... read more »

SaaS and Enterprise Messaging

There has been much buzz about Software as a Service (SaaS), this industrywide vision where companies will rent much or most of their software from the “cloud” of services available. This is not a new concept: for example, over 10 years ago Zivex was intent on becoming the “IT Utility Company.” There were many that... read more »

AOL Enters Into Agreement to Acquire Behavioral Targeting Firm TACODA

AOL announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TACODA, an online behavioral targeting advertising network. Financial terms were not disclosed.... read more »

Sunbelt Software Adds New Antispam Features to Ninja Email Security

Sunbelt Software released an updated version of Ninja Email Security, its anti-spam and antivirus solution for Exchange. Key enhancements: dedicated image-spam engine, dedicated SURBL engine that checks email content against surbl.org, a spam real-time URL list of known spammer domains, and updated version of the Cloudmark Authority anti-spam engine, among others. Available immediately.... read more »

Kerio MailServer delivers business email to Apple iPhone

Kerio Technologies announced version 6.4.1 of Kerio MailServer, its cross-platform email and collaboration solution. Enables both Windows and Mac users to natively synchronize email, calendar and contacts with their Apple iPhone.... read more »

C2C extends resilient, high availability email archiving and simplifies scalability

C2C announced an update to Archive One, its email archiving solution. Adds failover technology through the use of active/passive nodes. Available immediately. read more »

Barracuda Networks Introduces Comprehensive Barracuda Message Archiver

Barracuda Networks announced Barracuda Message Archiver, its email archiving appliance. Key features: integrated with the built-in journaling capabilities of email servers, import of existing email archive files, indexed search and retrieval, among others. Available immediately.... read more »

Nokia acquires Twango to offer a comprehensive media sharing experience

Nokia announced that it has acquired Twango, a provider of a media sharing solution for organizing and sharing photos, videos and other personal media.... read more »

Companies Scramble to Archive E-mail

Article discussing how regulatory and legal issues are forcing IT managers to create costly e-mail storage and archival systems as electronic documents replace paper as official business records.... read more »

Can You Hear Me Now? Unify Your Communications

Article discussing unified communications, the different features under the UC umbrella, solutions currently available, and suggestions on how to deploy a solution.... read more »

The new world of unified communications

Article discussing unified communications, what it is, what solutions are available and what it is going to take to get it pervasively installed in the enterprise.... read more »

Trend Micro Releases Findings of Study into Corporate End User Awareness of Web Threats

Trend Micro released the results of its study into corporate end users� awareness of Web threats. Concludes web threats rank as the third most serious computer security threat following viruses and Trojans and more serious than pharming, phishing and spam.... read more »

A Bulletin About SPAM (Not About Spam)

E-Commerce Apps Begin to Integrate With Internal Email Systems

Lotus Notes Makes Web 2.0 Connections

Article discussing the next generation of the Lotus Notes client that will integrate with the new range of Web 2.0-inspired technologies released with Lotus Connections IBM’s social software.... read more »

2007 Proofpoint Survey Finds that 32% of Large U.S. Companies Employ Personnel to Read Employee Email

Article discussing a Proofpoint survey that found outbound email and other electronic communication protocols continue to grow as a source of risk for companies and larger employees hire staff to read or analyze the contents of outbound email. read more »

Modern Security Suite solutions: methods for protecting confidential data

Article discussing the different ways to steal data using a computer and the techniques utilized to protect confidential data.... read more »

Why unified communications bring out the best in VoIP

Article discussing a unified communications and the functions and features that provide the most increases in productivity.... read more »

You Have Mail… Way Too Much!

Article discussing the email management and the problem of ever increasing inboxes.... read more »

j2 Global Acquires YAC Limited

j2 Global Communications announced that it has acquired YAC Limited, a provider of messaging services. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.... read more »

iPhone IMAP Vulnerability; Does NOT Support IMAP IDLE

We speculated in an earlier bulletin that the iPhone would support push email by use of IMAP IDLE. This turns out not to be true. Also, the unusual way that the iPhone provides push email has a nasty security hole. With IMAP servers other than Yahoo, the iPhone works by regular polling — so you... read more »

IMSafer Introduces New Features

IMSafer announced an updated version of IMSafer, its solution that allows parents to monitor the online relationships children have through IM and social networking sites. Key enhancements: removes the need for parents to understand the difference between IM software and social networking sites, simplifies community voting functionality, and centralizes public profile information of children, among others.... read more »

Most Anti-spam Technology Works Poorly

Article discussing the results of s survey conducted by Brockmann that concludes most vendors that make anti-spam products are failing to fully satisfy customers.... read more »

Smith Micro Announces The Acquisition Of The Assets Of SMS And MMS Software Company

Smith Micro Software announced it has acquired busineSMS Software, a provider of messaging applications.... read more »

New White Paper Resolves Overlooked Outlook Web Access Security Risks

Messageware released “OWA Security Issues Undetected by ISA Server,” its whitepaper. Discusses the security issues that exist in Outlook Web Access with ISA Server installed and recommendations on how to secure OWeb A from these risks.... read more »

Green Armor Solutions Delivers First Complete Mobile-Banking Authentication Platform

Green Armor Solutions announced Mobile Authentication Module for Identity Cues Two Factor, its authentication solution for securing access to web sites from mobile devices. Provides both multi-factor authentication and site authentication optimized for users accessing business systems from handheld devices.... read more »

Symantec Secures Web-based Access to Corporate E-mail

Symantec announced Symantec On-Demand Protection for Outlook Web Access 3.0, its solution that provides a secured virtual environment to access and manage Outlook mailboxes, calendars and files over the Web. Key features: creates a secured environment that encrypts data and deletes files once the session is terminated, checks host integrity, and checks to ensure that... read more »

Plaxo Provides Cross-App Calendar, Address Book Sync

Archiving and Enterprise Search Converging

SyncMyCal – Synchronizing Outlook and Google Calendars

Anti-Spyware Buyer’s Checklist

Article discussing 10 key questions to ask before buying anti-spyware software for a business.... read more »

Xandros Acquires Scalix – Linux E-mail, Calendaring and Messaging Company

Xandros announced the acquisition of Scalix, a provider of Linux e-mail, calendaring and messaging solutions. ... read more »

10 Reasons to Deploy an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System

IT Security released “10 Reasons to Deploy an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System,” its whitepaper. Covers some of the major reasons a company should deploy an intrusion detection and prevention system. Available immediately.... read more »

Symantec’s Renovated ThreatCon System Ushers in Next Generation of Security Alerting

Symantec launched an updated version of ThreatCon, its global security alerting system. Provides insight into phishing activity, spyware and adware, spam, malicious attacks and vulnerabilities, including non-Microsoft vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits. Available immediately. read more »

Email Archiving Beauty Contest: Part 1

In this webinar, participants learn the main differences between leading email archiving products. Several email archiving vendors concisely present their solution, its key strengths, and unique selling propositions. A Q&A session moderated and interpreted by a Ferris analyst follows.... read more »