Article discussing the results of a survey of CIOs and IT directors on their companies’ current digital collaboration strategies. Concludes while collaboration and communication technologies are widely acknowledged to be beneficial within the enterprise, less than half of Canadian and U.S. organizations have actually developed a strategy that they’re happy with. read more »
Article discussing the results of a survey on data security in North America that concludes many companies’ encryption and key management programs are under developed.... read more »
ISPCON Fall 2007 will be held on October 16 – 18, 2007 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Technology, business and policy issues confronting today’s wired and wireless Internet Service Providers.... read more »
Perimeter eSecurity announced the acquisition of USA.NET, a provider of secure eMessaging services.... read more »
Article discussing IM threats and what can be done to protect the work environment.... read more »
Article discussing steps that can be can taken to mitigate IM threats in the business environment.... read more »
The 1st International Conference on LDAP will be held on September 6 & &, 2007 at the Holiday Inn Köln — Am Stadtwald in Cologne, Germany. Technical forum for IT professionals that focuses on implementation and integration of LDAP servers and LDAP-enabled client applications.... read more »
Isode released “The LDAP Standard Specification,” its whitepaper. Guides those with some basic knowledge of LDAP through the LDAPv3 RFCs. Available immediately.... read more »
Article discussing how automated monitoring of email is moving beyond highly regulated industries like health care and financial services thanks to a spate of new rules from government and the credit-card industry.... read more »
Article discussing the interest in web conferencing as indicated by recent acquisitions by IBM, Cisco and Google.... read more »
Pivotal Veracity launched eReputation Manager, its solution for establishing, analyzing and improving online reputations. Key features: global whitelisting pPortal, blacklist & URL blocklist monitoring, and feedback loop management, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
S4BB announced version 2.0 Falcon of NextAction!, its solution for desktop synchronization with Blackberrys. Key enhancements: support for new BlackBerry models, improved performance, and synchronize contexts and projects to desktop applications, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Article discussing messaging compliance software.... read more »
Article discussing Exchange Server, what it is, its history, and what is has been added in Exchange 2007. ... read more »
Article discussing the use of social software in the enterprise environment.... read more »
IBM announced the Lotus Sametime Family, its unified communication and collaboration solutions. Sametime “Unified Telephony” will make it possible to manage communications across multiple business telephone systems and access them through multiple applications. Sametime Entry will include IM capabilities, presence awareness, spell check capabilities, emoticon support, chat history functionality and contact list management features. Sametime Standard will include on premise web conferencing; presence, IM and location awareness; and the ability to add plugins and mashups as well as communicate with users on supported public IM networks. Sametime Advanced will include persistent group chat and a suite of broadcast community tools. Standard available 4Q2007, Entry and Advanced 1H2008, and “Unified Telephony” mid 2008.... read more »
IBM announced it has acquired WebDialogs, a provider of Web conferencing and communications services. Financial details were not disclosed.... read more »
BitDefender released the 2008 version of BitDefender, its line of security solutions. Includes BitDefender Antivirus 2008, BitDefender Internet Security 2008 and BitDefender Total Security 2008. Available immediately.... read more »
Article discussing messaging compliance software. read more »
Article discussing how deployment of unified communication technology is likely to progress from early adopters this year to the mainstream between 2010 and 2012.... read more »
Article discussing Microsoft’s plans for a UC service.... read more »
GFI Software released version 4 of GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server, its solution that gives administrators control over corporate web usage. Key features: multiple anti-virus engines, WebGrade URL Filter, and granular download control policies, among others. Available immediately. read more »
Webroot Software released version 6.5 of Webroot Window Washer, its privacy software. Key enhancements: Windows Vista compatibility, expanded application cleaning, and updated interface, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Article discussing the opportunity for and the strategies and implementation of Unified Communications solutions.... read more »
Article discussing Microsoft’s plans for a UC service. read more »
CircleUp released an Outlook Toolbar, its solution to integrate the CircleUp social communication service with Outlook. Key features: group leader initiation of a CircleUp or an announcement from contact folder in Outlook, view status and answers of all of the questions without having to leave Outlook, and select names and email addresses from an address line in any email and use them to create new circles and address questions, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Tangent announced Datacove, its email archival appliance. Key features: email archiving, SMTP relay, and message indexing and storage, among others. ... read more »
Verizon announced Integrated Communications Package, its unified communications service for customers of Hosted IP Centrex, Verizon’s VoIP solution. Provides a dynamic hub where users can access voice mail, control incoming and outgoing calls, manage their online presence, send text messages, and synchronize contacts and calendars.... read more »
Sunbelt Software released version 2.0 of Sunbelt CWSandbox, its solution for the automated analysis of malware. Key enhancements: new cloaking functionality, enhanced malware analysis reports, and enhanced web interface for reporting and submission of malware samples, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
Polycom announced Polycom Unified Collaboration for Lotus Sametime and Lotus Notes, its voice and video conference conference solution. Provides options for adding voice, video or unified collaboration from within Lotus software applications. Available immediately.... read more »
Interwoven announced version 8.2 of Interwoven WorkSite, its email management solution. Key enhancements: ability to tag email with metadata; Office 2007, Windows Vista and Lotus Notes support, and Enhanced Mobile Access, among others.... read more »
Article discussing how phishers can get around anti-phishing filters through the misuse of Google Gadget applications.... read more »