Microsoft Plans E-Mail, IM, Blog, And Photo Sharing Suite

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 »

An Insider’s View on Email Delivery Reporting

Article discussing how to improve email campaign effectiveness through the use reporting.... read more »

PeopleCube Releases New Version of WebEvent

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 »

Messageware Launches CalendarShare 3.0 with Delegate Access for Outlook Web Access

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 »

LoadSpring Solutions Offers Hosting for Microsoft Exchange Server

LoadSpring Solutions today announced hosting capabilities for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 through its application hosting and management system, CAM Console. ... read more »

Survey of Businesses Indicate Uptake of Hosted Communications Services, Video, Unified Messaging and VoIP

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 »

AOL Introduces New Mail and Instant Messaging Products

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 »

Visto Announces Secure Corporate Email for Apple iPhone

Visto announced and update to Visto Mobile, its mobile email solution. Adds support for the Apple iPhone. Available 3Q2007.... read more »

Kaspersky Lab releases its latest analytical report “The evolution of self-defense technologies in malware”

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 »

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Microsoft Plans E-Mail, IM, Blog, And Photo Sharing Suite

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 Launches CalendarShare 3.0 with Delegate Access for Outlook Web Access

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 Releases New Version of WebEvent

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 »

Funding, security top issues for gov’t telecom managers

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 »

Exclaimer announces potent new email storage compression utility

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 »

Security vendors question antivirus tests

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 »

Sunbelt Software Announces Version 2.5 of CounterSpy

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 »

IDconnex Announces “No More Passwords” with “ezAuth”, its Open Source Release of Simple Email Authentication Software

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 »

Next-Generation Messaging Shaping the New World of Collaboration

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 Announces “No More Passwords” with “ezAuth”, its Open Source Release of Simple Email Authentication Software

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 »

Don’t put all your Email Marketing Content in Images

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 »

A Simple and Reliable Policy for Email Retention

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Cheaper, faster, easier… Softalk launches rival to Microsoft Exchange

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 Secure Web Gateway Delivers All-in-One Protection Against Web Malware and Botnet Infections

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 »

Mi5 Networks Secure Web Gateway Delivers All-in-One Protection Against Web Malware and Botnet Infections

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 to Acquire Kasamba, Inc.

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 Unveils IperiaVX Platform

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 »

OASIS Members Form Committee to Standardize Symmetric Encryption Key Management Across the Enterprise

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 »

Cheaper, faster, easier… Softalk launches rival to Microsoft Exchange

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 Apps Gets Mail Migration, Dozens of New Features

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 »

Industry’s First Multi-Node Grid Architecture-Based Email Archiving Solution Introduced by Mimosa Systems

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 »

The good and bad Of Web 2.0 tools

Article discussing the use of web 2.0 tools in the enterprise.... read more »

“Sync Up” With the All-New Plaxo

Plaxo announced version 3.0 of Plaxo, its online address book and calendar synchronization solution for mobile devices. Key enhancements: A new sync dashboard, expanded array of sync endpoints, and improved address book, among others. Available immediately in a beta version.... read more »

Why people don’t use collaboration tools

Article discussing why conversation and collaboration tools so underused.... read more »