Gordano Teams With Notify Technology For Push E-mail and PIM Features

1. Gordano Teams With Notify Technology For Push E-mail and PIM Features

Enterprise messaging developer Gordano Ltd.today unveiled new push e-mail and PIM functionality for its Gordano Messaging Suite (GMS), the result of a joint development effort with Notify Technology Corp.

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- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Jan 18 2006


2. Defendant in spam case pleads guilty

Daniel Lin, the first person prosecuted under the 2004 federal antispam law, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three felony charges, federal prosecutors announced.

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- read full story from CNET News.com, Jan 18 2006


3. Google opens up instant messaging

Google Talk users can now talk to people using other instant messaging systems that support the XMPP open communications protocol. Those systems include Jabber.org, Earthlink, Sipphone's Gizmo Project, Chikka in the Philippines, MediaRing in Singapore, Tiscali in Italy and China's Netease, Google said in a statement.

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- read full story from CNET News.com, Jan 18 2006


4. Google Talk Opens Up

Google Talk is now speaking to other Jabber servers, nearly six months after the company released the instant messaging application. Open federation is now part of Google Talk, meaning the software can communicate eith other Jabber-based instant messaging clients, according to Google's developer FAQ.

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- read full story from internetnews.com, Jan 18 2006


5. Cisco squashes VoIP, router bugs

Flaws in Cisco Systems software for routers and IP telephony could be a conduit for attacks on enterprise networks, the company has warned. On Wednesday, it released two security alerts along with fixes for Cisco CallManager, which runs Internet-based phone calling.

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- read full story from CNET News.com, Jan 18 2006


6. New open-source license targets DRM, Hollywood

The new version of the most widely used open-source license takes a "highly aggressive" stance against the digital rights management software that's widely favored in the entertainment industry, said Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation. .

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- read full story from CNET News.com, Jan 18 2006


7. Google Gains Ground on Baidu in China

U.S. Internet search giant Google is gaining on local rival Baidu in the race to dominate the fast-growing Chinese search engine market, according to a research firm's survey. The study, conducted by Internet performance research firm Keynote Systems, bodes well for Google, which has made major moves to set up in China, the world's second-biggest online market with 120 million users.

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- read full story from eweek.com, Jan 18 2006


8. EBay plans instant-buying service

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc. on Wednesday said it planned to offer an instant-purchase service to supplement its bid-and-wait online auctions, pitting the company directly against conventional e-commerce retailers.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Jan 18 2006