AOL Opens AIM To Third Parties

AOL Opens AIM To Third Parties

America Online said today that has opened its AIM instant messaging environment to developers and integrators, allowing them to build IM and presence capabilities into their applications or services.

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- read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 6 2006

Three Ways To Authenticate E-Mail And Stop Spam

As long as there's an Internet and people who see it as an opportunity to make money--or mischief--there will be spam. The main challenge for businesses is finding the best way to control the unrelenting onslaught of unwanted E-mails.
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- read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 6 2006
Hands-On With Windows Defender Beta 2: Better But Buggy The new Beta 2 version of Microsoft's free anti-spyware software adds significant new features, but it is not yet glitch-free. Last month, Microsoft released a major upgrade of its free anti-spyware software program. Previously known as Microsoft AntiSpyware, Microsoft has renamed the utility Windows Defender.

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- read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 6 2006

Proofpoint Debuts Version 4 Of Its Messaging Security Gateway Appliance

Proofpoint Inc., Cupertino, has brought out version 4.0 of its Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway appliance and Proofpoint Protection Server 4.0 software, featuring enhanced directory harvest attack prevention and an optional Zero-Hour Anti-Virus module for protection against emerging virus attacks.

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- read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 2 2006




Cisco Adds SIP to IP Telephony

Cisco Systems has announced plans to adopt a key Internet Protocol telephony standard, which will allow for the addition of new network service features and will let companies like Microsoft integrate their communications products with Cisco gear.

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- read full story from Techtree.com, March 7 2006
Blackberry users stay connected
The boss of the firm behind the Blackberry e-mail device says it came through its marathon patent dispute battle without losing a customer.

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- read full story from BBC News, March 6, 2006

EMC rolls out new NAS devices, software
EMC rolled out on Monday two new network-attached storage (NAS) devices and extended its Smarts IP root-cause diagnosis software to NAS systems. The new appliances include the Celerra NS704, which can scale up to 48 terabytes.
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- read full story from infoworld.com, March 6, 2006

TiVo to Expand TV Recording to Cell Phones
TiVo subscribers will soon be able to program television recordings straight from cell phones using the Verizon Wireless network An agreement with Verizon Wireless, to be announced Tuesday, expands on TiVo Inc.'s strategy to bring the digital video recording pioneer's capabilities beyond its set-top-boxes and the television, and directly to cell phones for the first time
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- read full story from Yahoo! News, March 7, 2006

Google searches for way to satisfy Wall Street

1. Google searches for way to satisfy Wall Street

Google's declared mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible - except when the data involve its own financial forecasts. Google still refuses to supply earnings projections routinely dispensed by other high-profile companies, part of its founders' aversion to Wall Street's conventions. But the online search engine leader appears to be striving to share more business details with investors.

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- read full story from SCMP.com, March 6 2006


2. Microsoft aims to stamp out spam
Microsoft researchers are working on a way to let people use their feet to perform many routine computer tasks. By tapping buttons on a pad on the floor users can scroll through their inbox and open, close and delete messages. The researchers said they developed the foot interface to make interacting with computers more energetic.
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- read full story from BBC News, March 2 2006
3. AOL to pay bulk e-mail fees for nonprofits

Less than a week after interest groups complained about a proposed bulk-e-mailing fee, America Online Inc. said nonprofit organizations will not have to pay to send mass messages to their members after all.
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- read full story from Business Week Online, March 3 2006

4. Spam Mutates
Junk ads are migrating to blogs, instant messages, and cell phones.
Peter Shinbach recently threw in the towel and shut down Bach Door, his online-communications blog.The public relations executive from Birmingham, Michigan, was fed up with so-called comment spam. Returning from a weeklong vacation, he found a slew of comments on his blog that had nothing to do with communications: They were posts from spammers promoting gambling sites and prescription drugs.
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- read full story from Pcworld.com, Feburary 27 2006
5. Chinese Gov't Sets Up Blogs for Lawmakers
BEIJING - China's government is trying to boost public interest in its figurehead parliament and its companion advisory body by setting up Web logs for members as they meet this week. Called "bo ke" in Chinese, blogs are popular with young people despite strict censorship rules
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- read full story from Yahoo! News, March 5 2006


6. eBay Developers Create Huge Software-As-A-Service Community

Mpire Corp. will launch in March a mobile search application to help sellers determine the correct day, time and price to sell their products on eBay Inc. With a similar tool introduced in January from Mpire, the eBay community gained Mpulse, a resource to monitor up-to-the-minute listing trends for items from Apple Computer Inc. iPods to Microsoft Corp. Xboxes. About 10,000 users tap into the service. Now the provider of Web-based services will offer the application on mobile devices.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, March 3 2006


7. Certified Mail: The Rebuttal

AOL has no intention of swaying from its certified e-mail course, and at least one analyst firm said it shouldn't feel any pressure to do so. In a statement following the press conference of the coalition of organizations rallying against AOL's proposed use of GoodMail's Certified Email pay-to-send service.

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- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, March 2 2006


8. IntelliReach, Akonix Team Up For Integrated E-mail and IM Archiving

IntelliReach Corp. has partnered with instant messaging security provider Akonix Systems to integrate their technologies in order to provide a single index for archived e-mail and instant messages as part of IntelliReach’s mx2020 essage management system.

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- read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 2 2006

Yahoo readies new and improved online services APIs

Yahoo readies new and improved online services APIs

Yahoo will release new and enhanced application programming interfaces (APIs) for four of its online services in the coming months, the Sunnyvale, California, company plans to announce on Tuesday at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

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- read full story from infoworld.com, March 7 2006


Paid e-mail plan raises the people's ire

If the ’60s has left any mark on following generations, it can still be found in high tech. That seminal generation perceived, and held as its credo, the belief that ordinary people could change the course of American policy, and did, when we pulled out of Vietnam. Whether or not this is true is beyond my ability to know, but this perception is now commonly accepted.

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- read full story from infoworld.com, March 7 2006


Google lets slip talk of online storage

Google is preparing to offer online storage to Web users, creating a mirror image of data stored on consumer hard drives, according to company documents that were mistakenly released on the Web.

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- read full story from ZDNet Technology News, March 7, 2006

Intel demonstrates quad-core PC, server

Intel demonstrated two quad-core processors Tuesday, "Clovertown" for servers and "Kentsfield" for PCs, directing attention toward the future during a more troubled present.

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- read full story from ZDNet Technology News, March 7 2006

Microsoft upgrades search

Microsoft is set to launch on Wednesday the beta version of its new Windows Live Search page, which uses the same behind-the-scenes technology as MSN Search but will eventually become the company's sole search offering.

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-read full story from ZDNet Technology News, March 7 2006


Microsoft's CTO envisions a Web-savvy clipboard

Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie has proposed a way to bring the equivalent of a PC's text clipboard to the Web, a move he said will spur more user-driven "mashups."

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- read full story from ZDNet Technology News, March 7 2006

Microsoft readying Vista marketing blitz
Aiming to re-create the excitement that accompanied the launch of Windows 95, Microsoft is gearing up for a massive campaign to launch Windows Vista.
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- read full story from ZDNet Technology News, March 7 2006
Cloudmark Upgrades Messaging Security For Exchange
Messaging security vendor Cloudmark Inc. has upgraded its Cloudmark Server Edition for corporate environments that use Microsoft’s Exchange Server, adding new mobile e-mail messaging protection against spam, phishing and virus attacks, and new data reporting features.
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- read full story from Messagingpipline.com, March 7 2006