Microsoft, Yahoo! Fight Spam--Sort Of, Forbes.com, 14 July 2005

“Yahoo! and Cisco Systems are collaborating on an authentication technology to weed spam from legitimate e-mail. It goes by the clunky name DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and it merges technology from both companies into one specification based on public key cryptography, a type of digital signature. EarthLink started testing DomainKeys in the first quarter of 2005 and now signs over 70% of all outgoing mail. Other companies are also testing DomainKeys. Yahoo! Mail claims to be receiving approximately 350 million inbound DomainKeys signed messages per day.”

Full Story at http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/07/14/microsoft-yahoo-spam-cx_fr_0714spam.html?partner=rss




Vonage, AT&T Top VOIP Ratings, Extreme Tech, 14 July 2005

“Vonage was found to be the most reliable VOIP vendor of those surveyed, which included AT&T CallVantage, Packet 8, Primus Lingo, Skype's SkypeOut service, Verizon, Voicewing, and Vonage, together with business DSL calls made over the AT&T, Sprint, and UUNet networks.”

Full Story at http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1837046,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532




Vonage Voicemail Vanishes During Site Upgrade, Extreme Tech, 14 July 2005

“Users trying to access their voice mail on the Vonage site were met with the message, "No Voicemail boxes found for your account," and stored voice mail messages did not show up on the site. The messages and lack of voicemail began appearing on Wednesday, and persisted through early Thursday morning. Chris Latona, a member of the Vonage DigitalVoice executive response team, confirmed the problem still required another day to resolve.”

Full Story at http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1837054,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532




Glitches hit Vonage voice mail, CnetNews.com, 14 July 2005

“Some of Vonage's customers haven't been able get to their voice mail via the Internet telephony provider's Web site since Wednesday. "We're having voice mail issues right now," a Vonage spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail Thursday. According to postings in a Vonage chat room, people attempting to get voice mail through Vonage's site got the message: "Customers may be experiencing an intermittent issue with logging into your Web account."

Full Story at http://news.com.com/Glitches+hit+Vonage+voice+mail/2110-7352_3-5788902.html?part=rss&tag=5788902&subj=news




Virus scanner bug cost Trend $8 million, InfoWorld, 14 July 2005
Trend Micro Bug Proves Costly, Yahoo.com, 14 July 2005

“Tokyo-based anti-virus software vendor Trend Micro said that a bug in its own software that affected thousands of customers has cost the company ¥903 million ($8 million). The issue has also forced it to lower its revenue and profit forecasts for the April to June quarter. The company hasn't lost many corporate contracts over the bug because it's difficult for enterprises to quickly change their anti-virus policies”

Full Story at http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/14/HNvirusscannerbug_1.html

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Movable Type Works to Block Blog Spam, eWeek.com, 14 July 2005

“The startup company partly hopes to address the increase in blogging among enterprise and organizational users. The company also is trying to thwart a rising menace—the rise of spammers filling blog comment sections and stuffing trackbacks with unwanted and irrelevant comments and links. With Movable Type 3.2, Six Apart has added a centralized administration view called System Overview, which administrators can use to track activity across hundreds or thousands of blogs and manage feedback and trackbacks across all the blogs.”

Full Story at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1837322,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Telefonica Moviles Espana Selects Openwave Messageing Suite to Offer Consumer and Corporate customers a Singel Inbox for all Messaging Services, Openwave.com, 13 July 2005

“By selecting Openwave's integrated messaging platform, Telefónica Móviles will be able to launch new communication services such as "always on" Email, allowing users to receive emails to their current mobile devices, as they would to their PC, and previously only available on sophisticated, expensive mobile devices. In addition, Telefónica Móviles will mobilize a variety of email accounts being offered by ISPs as well as enterprise e-mail accounts, allowing end-users to have their preferred e-mail account in their phones without changing their selected e-mail provider.”

Full Story at http://www.openwave.com/us/news_room/press_releases/2005/20050713_opwv_telefonica_0713.htm




Speakers at E-Mail Summit Push Authentication, Reputation Tools, eWeek, 13 July 13

“Representatives from 37 e-mail technology companies used a one-day Summit in New York on Tuesday to exhort private sector administrators and online marketers to adopt e-mail sender authentication technology that helps block spam and phishing attacks. Attendees were treated to in-depth discussions of technologies such as the open source SPF (Sender Policy Framework, Microsoft's SIDF (Sender ID Framework) and the new DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail).”

Full Story at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1836732,00.asp





Email Authentication: A Report From 2005's Summit, CRM.com, 13 July 2005

“Many of the speakers hit the same points, hoping to drive home the urgency of the situation: (1) Email authentication technology is available and must be deployed as soon as possible to pave the way for reputation-based security. (2) Authentication isn't enough by itself, though, as spammers were among the earliest adopters of certification and a certificate of authenticity doesn't say anything about the validity of the message content. (3) Spoofed emails are a serious drain on customer relations, and marketers must support strong enforcement of cyber laws to protect their customers and their own companies. (5)Email messages must be relevant and targeted to specific customer needs in order to stay out of the junk folder.”

Full Story at http://www.destinationcrm.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=5271




E-Mail Users Losing Money to Online Scams, Yahoo.com, 13 July 2005
“Nine percent of U.S. Internet users have lost money on e-mail scams, according to a survey of 791 users conducted by market research firm The Radicati Group. According to Ferris Research's estimates based on mathematical models, the worldwide cost of e-mail spam and scams in the world is $50 billion a year, and $17 billion a year in the U.S. alone.”

Full Story at http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/pcworld/20050713/tc_pcworld/121811




Could blogging spread computer worms? Register, 13 July 2005

“Gregor Freund, chief exec and co-founder of the Check Point Software subsidiary, said RSS feeds are a potential threat because whenever you have unstructured or unfiltered data you can end up with viruses. He added that Zone Labs had spotted malicious behaviour over RSS feeds but wasn't able to supply any details on what this malfeasance might be.”

Full Story at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/13/rss_security_threat/




VoIP Still Lags Behind in Quality, Survey says, InfoWorld.com, 13 July 2005

“Keynote Systems tested the services for reliability and quality by making domestic long-distance and local calls from VoIP services to the PSTN (public switched telephone network) in May and June this year. Call quality was evaluated by software and used an industry standard for listening quality, according to Dharmesh Thakker, senior product manager at Keynote..”

Full Story at http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/13/HNvoipquality_1.html

Telefonica Moviles Espana Selects Openwave Messageing Suite to Offer Consumer and Corporate customers a Singel Inbox for all Messaging Services, Openwave.com, 13 July 2005

“By selecting Openwave's integrated messaging platform, Telefónica Móviles will be able to launch new communication services such as "always on" Email, allowing users to receive emails to their current mobile devices, as they would to their PC, and previously only available on sophisticated, expensive mobile devices. In addition, Telefónica Móviles will mobilize a variety of email accounts being offered by ISPs as well as enterprise e-mail accounts, allowing end-users to have their preferred e-mail account in their phones without changing their selected e-mail provider.”

Full Story at http://www.openwave.com/us/news_room/press_releases/2005/20050713_opwv_telefonica_0713.htm




Speakers at E-Mail Summit Push Authentication, Reputation Tools, eWeek, 13 July 13

“Representatives from 37 e-mail technology companies used a one-day Summit in New York on Tuesday to exhort private sector administrators and online marketers to adopt e-mail sender authentication technology that helps block spam and phishing attacks. Attendees were treated to in-depth discussions of technologies such as the open source SPF (Sender Policy Framework, Microsoft's SIDF (Sender ID Framework) and the new DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail).”

Full Story at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1836732,00.asp





Email Authentication: A Report From 2005's Summit, CRM.com, 13 July 2005

“Many of the speakers hit the same points, hoping to drive home the urgency of the situation: (1) Email authentication technology is available and must be deployed as soon as possible to pave the way for reputation-based security. (2) Authentication isn't enough by itself, though, as spammers were among the earliest adopters of certification and a certificate of authenticity doesn't say anything about the validity of the message content. (3) Spoofed emails are a serious drain on customer relations, and marketers must support strong enforcement of cyber laws to protect their customers and their own companies. (5)Email messages must be relevant and targeted to specific customer needs in order to stay out of the junk folder.”

Full Story at http://www.destinationcrm.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=5271
E-Mail Users Losing Money to Online Scams, Yahoo.com, 13 July 2005
“Nine percent of U.S. Internet users have lost money on e-mail scams, according to a survey of 791 users conducted by market research firm The Radicati Group. According to Ferris Research's estimates based on mathematical models, the worldwide cost of e-mail spam and scams in the world is $50 billion a year, and $17 billion a year in the U.S. alone.”

Full Story at http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/pcworld/20050713/tc_pcworld/121811




Could blogging spread computer worms? Register, 13 July 2005

“Gregor Freund, chief exec and co-founder of the Check Point Software subsidiary, said RSS feeds are a potential threat because whenever you have unstructured or unfiltered data you can end up with viruses. He added that Zone Labs had spotted malicious behaviour over RSS feeds but wasn't able to supply any details on what this malfeasance might be.”

Full Story at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/13/rss_security_threat/




VoIP Still Lags Behind in Quality, Survey says, InfoWorld.com, 13 July 2005

“Keynote Systems tested the services for reliability and quality by making domestic long-distance and local calls from VoIP services to the PSTN (public switched telephone network) in May and June this year. Call quality was evaluated by software and used an industry standard for listening quality, according to Dharmesh Thakker, senior product manager at Keynote..”

Full Story at http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/13/HNvoipquality_1.html

IBM to add blogging tools to Workplace, InfoWorld, 12 July 2005

“Version 2.5 of Workplace will ship with a Weblog component that allows users to create blogs with features such as archiving, permalinks, comments, search, and syndication, according to IBM officials. The Weblog tool preview also offers enterprise-level features including security, roles, application templates, and a single point of administration for blogs and other Workplace components. Another feature, dubbed blogroll, allows bloggers to show a public list of favorite internal and external Weblog.”

Full Story at http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/12/HNibmblogs_1.html




Survey Finds Spam Now Hits Your Wallet, Mirapoint, 12 July 2005

“Mirapoint and Radicati Group produced a report focused on email security and usage to identify the existing trends allowing spammers to continue to mislead consumers. The survey found that 11 percent of users purchase products and services from spam emails and 9 percent of users have lost money due to an email scam. Even if they aren’t buying products, 39 percent of users admit to clicking on embedded links within spam (other than the unsubscribe link). Furthermore, 57 percent of respondents that click on spam links say they receive more spam.”

Full Story at http://www.mirapoint.com/company/news_events/press/20050712.shtml





Tumbleweed Teams with Commtouch to Add Outbreak Detection to Tumbleweed MailGate; Security Company Licenses RPD Technology from Commtouch, Expands Spam Prevention Capabilities, Commtouch, 11 July 2005

“Tumbleweed(R) Communications Corp. and Commtouch(R) Software Ltd. today announced that Tumbleweed has licensed Commtouch's RPD technology and certain elements of U.S. Patent No. 6,330,590 for inclusion in Tumbleweed's email security products. Tumbleweed has integrated RPD (Recurrent Pattern Detection(TM)) features into Tumbleweed MailGate Email Firewall and MailGate AntiSpam. The addition of this technology further extends MailGate performance by adding unique real-time detection capabilities, blocking spam outbreaks within minutes of their release into the Internet.”

Full Story at http://www.commtouch.com//Site/News_Events/pr_content.asp?news_id=411&cat_id=1



Skype and Boingo announce VOIP Wi-Fi partnership, InfoWorld, 12 July 2005

“Skype Zones offer VOIP users unlimited access to Boingo's public broadband for $7.95 per month. Also, infrequent users can pay $2.95 for a two hour connection. Luxembourg-based Skype International's existing offers will remain, Larabee added. As of now the company gives users the ability to make free calls to other Skype users over the Internet and also allows its customers to make VOIP calls to traditional fixed line and mobile networks at significantly reduced rates. The VOIP industry is young but growing rapidly -- Skype claimed that as of June 22 its 43 million user base is growing by 140,000 users a day.”

Full Story at http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/12/HNskypeboingo_1.html





Boingo Adds VOIP-Only Access Plan With Skype Deal, ExtremeTech, 12 July 2005

“The deal will allow users to download a special Skype service, called Skype Zones, which is currently in beta. The deal effectively adds another tier of pricing to Boingo's service agreement, one specifically designed for users who want to duck in to make a quick VOIP call. Boingo charges $21.95 per month for unlimited Internet access, which includes surfing the Web and other functions. Although users can not access the Internet, they can use the Skype Zones service to access their contact lists, directory and write instant messages with the Skype software.”

Full Story at http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1836060,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532




Sprint PCS Business Connection(SM) Wireless Email Service Now Available on JAVA-Enabled Devices, Yahoo! Finance, 12 July 2005

“Sprint and SEVEN today announced the availability of Sprint PCS Business Connection on select Sprint JAVA-enabled multimedia devices. This latest enhancement gives Sprint customers the convenience of accessing real-time corporate and personal email and contacts via a feature-rich JAVA client. Sprint Business Connection provides real-time access to Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, POP and IMAP information -- including email messages and attachments, calendars, business directories and personal contacts, desktop documents, and personal email from Internet email accounts including Sprint PCS Mail, Yahoo!, Earthlink and others.”

Full Story at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050712/cgtu034.html?.v=15