Software Upgrade Revenue Motivates Microsoft’s Managed Service Offerings

Software Upgrade Revenue Motivates Microsoft’s Managed Service Offerings... read more »

SNMP: An Important Part of Managing Large Messaging Systems

SNMP: An Important Part of Managing Large Messaging Systems... read more »

Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration v3.5

Microsoft recently announced Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) Version 3.5. Key new features: Mobile, push messaging support. Easier deployment by service providers. Many service providers would like to offer a hosted version of Exchange and Microsoft’s other collaboration tools. That bodes well for HMC. What bothers us about HMC is this: Its […]... read more »

Outsourcing Often Delays Software Upgrades

Outsourcing Often Delays Software Upgrades... read more »

Gmail Mobile: Disadvantages of Web Mobile Messaging

Gmail Mobile: Disadvantages of Web Mobile Messaging... read more »

Waterford Email Archiving: Attractive, Second-Generation Product

Waterford Technologies is not a household name, not even in email households. It’ll get better known. It has an attractive email archiving product, MailMeter: Highly interactive, lots of drill-downs with fast responses Easy to use and intuitive Easy to install A self-funded company, Waterford Technologies is growing organically, around 100% annually. The company’s main target […]... read more »

Spam Quarantines Should Be Sorted by Score

Spam Quarantines Should Be Sorted by Score... read more »

CalDAV: Promising New Calendaring Interoperability Standards

CalDAV: Promising New Calendaring Interoperability Standards... read more »

Rockliffe: Nice Example of Inexpensive, Easy Push Mobile Messaging

Rockliffe sells Windows-based POP/IMAP email server software to businesses and service providers. Version 7 of its MailSite server is now available. Among other things, it provides interesting support for mobile devices. It’s interesting because it’s simple to install and support, and overall has extremely low total cost of ownership. In a nutshell: Email notifications are […]... read more »

Oracle Unveils Comprehensive Identity Management Suite

Oracle released Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite, its integrated portfolio of products. Key contents: Oracle COREid Access and Identity identity administration; Oracle Xellerate Identity, a cross-enterprise provisioning system; and Oracle COREid Federation, an identity federation server, among others. Available immediately. read more »

IMAP is the Open Standard for Mobile Email

IMAP is the Open Standard for Mobile Email... read more »

Lost Mobile Devices a Major Issue

Lost Mobile Devices a Major Issue... read more »

IETF and OMA Architectures for Mobile Email

We attended the November joint meeting of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) and the OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) on mobile messaging. While these two groups have rather different cultures, both are working to build an open standards approach to mobile messaging. The IETF people primarily focus on getting things right technically. The OMA has […]... read more »

CORRECTION: Exchange 12 Outlook Web Access–Main New Features

This is a revised version of the bulletin we published on December 19, 2005. We’ve reissued the bulletin to clarify our comments about large folders and correct our comments about showing resource availability. We recently got a demo of the new version of Outlook Web Access (OWA) being prepared for the Exchange 12 release. We […]... read more »

Proofpoint Update: Adds Zero-Hour Virus Control, Email Encryption

Proofpoint Update: Adds Zero-Hour Virus Control, Email Encryption... read more »

Oracle Reports Q2 GAAP EPS of 15 Cents, Non-GAAP EPS of 19 Cents

Oracle released results for 2Q2006, ended November 30, 2005. Revenue increased 19% to $3.3 billion with net a GAAP income of $798 million. read more »

BitDefender Brings Virtual Machine Virus Control to Desktops

BitDefender Brings Virtual Machine Virus Control to Desktops... read more »

Use Unified Messaging To Escape Boring Meetings

Some unified messaging (UM) systems have the facility to call your phone and play a voice message from your inbox. They provide this function in case the PC you’re using doesn’t have audio, or in case the use of speakers might disturb others nearby. The idea is that you click a button in the message […]... read more »

The Market for Interactive Whiteboards

The Market for Interactive Whiteboards... read more »

Email Encryption, Edge-to-User, Revives?

Email Encryption, Edge-to-User, Revives?... read more »

Overcoming Barriers to Digital Rights Management

It’s very early days for digital rights management (DRM). The technology addresses important needs, but it hasn’t taken off. The main problems appear to be: People don’t like to install special client software. DRM needs to be seamlessly built into many applications, rather than an after-the-fact add-on. DRM needs to be integrated with identity management […]... read more »

The Size of the Digital Rights Management Market

The Size of the Digital Rights Management Market... read more »

Adomo’s Voicemail for Exchange

Adomo has a voicemail system that integrates tightly with Microsoft Exchange. It also integrates with a variety of PBXs and Active Directory. Voicemail messages come into your inbox, where you can listen and respond to them. The product looks interesting; we like the look of it. Architecturally it feels right, built around modern IT technology. […]... read more »

Screen Sharing Will Be Ubiquitous

Screen Sharing Will Be Ubiquitous... read more »

Domain Registrars Must Respond Quickly to Phishing Abuse

Last week we noted a problem reporting a phishing email to eBay. I’m pleased to report that the phishing Web site — ebaychristmas.net — is now down. However, I’m not pleased to report how long it took. The detail behind the delay is instructive. From the first report to takedown took 13 days (November 25 […]... read more »

Symantec hopes to deliver antivirus online

Article discussing Symantec’s plans to move toward supplying its consumer applications, such as Norton Antivirus and Norton Utilities, as a service. read more »

An Interesting Man With an Interesting Product and an Interesting Name

An Interesting Man With an Interesting Product and an Interesting Name... read more »

Search Should Work Over Databases

What do you want your desktop search to do? The two big things are obviously message store, then file system documents. Miscellaneous things follow, like integration with team workspaces, IM sessions, etc. But the most important next step, after message store and file system documents, is to access databases. Database access is a huge black […]... read more »

Postini Announces Availability of Postini Archive Manager: Archiving and Legal Discovery Solution to Meet Operational and Compliance Archiving Requirements

Postini released Postini Archive Manager, its arching solution that allows the capture, storage, discovery and deletion of email and IM traffic. Key features: single management console for defining policy across users and groups of users, applications components, and communications protocols; elimination of spam and virus infected messages prior to archiving process; and centralized supervision, oversight […]... read more »

Yahoo to offer cheap PC-to-phone calls

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Hosted Archiving Appeals Most to Small and Midsize Organizations

Hosted Archiving Appeals Most to Small and Midsize Organizations... read more »

Emails Are About To Get Much Much Bigger

Today, it’s rare that emails are larger than 20MB. Soon, this will change. Cheap devices that generate high-quality digital video that easily displays on a PC are becoming ubiquitous. An example is the Sony Cyber-shot. Over the next two years, high-quality video will also be built into mass-market cellphones. This will further extend availability. Such […]... read more »

Directory Server-Server Communication Can Need To Be Secure

Directory Server-Server Communication Can Need To Be Secure... read more »

Unified Messaging Probably Gathers Inertia

Traditionally, unified messaging is where you let your email system be a place where you access email, faxes, and voicemail. Despite substantial investments of vendors such as Avaya for some 10 years, unified messaging products have met with little success. Partly, that’s because the value of fax integration is, for most organizations, too little. Another, […]... read more »

Phished Brands Make Silly Mistakes

Phished Brands Make Silly Mistakes... read more »