E-Mail's Popularity Swamps Storage Systems And Raises Corporate Security Issues

E-Mail's Popularity Swamps Storage Systems And Raises Corporate Security Issues

The increasing use of e-mail by consumers and businesspeople alike is making it a more attractive target for hackers and criminals, according to a study from IronPort Systems' Threat Operations Center that looks at the ancillary costs of dealing with spam.

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-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, April 24 2006


AOL Preparing 'Something' In Social Networking

The blogosphere this week was abuzz on rumors that AOL was close to launching a social network that would take on the popular MySpace.

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-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, April 20 2006


Microsoft developing next mobile OS

Microsoft, which has been carving a larger slice of the mobile device OS market, is developing a new product, code-named "Crossbow," which will incorporate features such as instant messaging, a Microsoft executive confirmed Monday.

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-read full story from InfoWorld.com, April 25 20006


Take A Closer Look At Google's Corporate Search Technology

People love Google not just for finding information but also for presenting it in a way that's easy to understand. The company is banking on its deceptively simple-looking user interface as it pushes inside the corporate firewall.

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-read full story from InternetWeek.com, April 24 2006


Net Neutrality: The Great Internet Divide

The debate over network neutrality is heating up as a congressional committee prepares to take the issue up next week.

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-read full story from InternetWeek.com, April 21 2006

GoodLink 4.8 Tweaks Security, Compliance

Good Technology has released an upgrade of its GoodLink wireless messaging solution. The company said that its GoodLink 4.8 release, available Monday, will support up to 1,500 users on a singe server while at the same time offering several new features including improved security and reliability additions.

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-read full story from InternetWeek.com, April 24 2006


PC losing Net battle to mobiles

Mobile phones may soon challenge personal computers as the dominant platform for accessing the internet, a recent study suggests. Research by Ipsos Insight released last week showed that 28 per cent of mobile phone owners worldwide had browsed the internet on a wireless handset, up from 25 per cent at the end of 2004.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, April 25 2006


EFF's sender pay email debate ends in draw

Last night Mitch Kapor, Esther Dyson and Danny O’Brien debated the pros and cons of sender-pay email at a fundraiser for the Electronic Frontier Foundation held at the Roxie Film Center in the Mission district. Actually Mitch was the moderator, but the co-founder of EFF and Chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation got a few shots in.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, April 21 2006