Report: Demand Continues To Grow For E-mail Archiving

Report: Demand Continues To Grow For E-mail Archiving

The worldwide e-mail archiving market this year is expected to reach $796 million by the end of 2006, and grow almost tenfold to $7.8 billion by 2010, according to recent estimates by messaging market research firm The Radicati Group Inc.

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-read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 23 2006

PayPal To Offer Paying By Text Message

Online payment company PayPal said on Wednesday it was preparing to offer a service for consumers to make purchases or money transfers using simple text messaging via mobile phones.

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-read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 23 2006


Hutchison moves 3G profit goalposts

Hutchison Whampoa has renewed the timetable for its global US$22 billion 3G investment to break even, saying the business will only edge closer to an operating profit by next year, one year later than its original target.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, March 24 2006


China Unicom seeks partners for CDMA services

China Unicom is seeking local or foreign partners to participate in its CDMA mobile service business, raising concerns the company may offload the loss-making operation in the future. Chairman Chang Xiaobing said yesterday that local or foreign firms could help to turn around the CDMA business.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, March 24 2006

Company sued over selling e-mail addresses

New York's attorney general sued an Internet company on Thursday over the selling of e-mail addresses in what authorities say may be the biggest deliberate breach of Internet privacy ever. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer accused Gratis Internet of selling personal information obtained from millions of consumers despite a promise of confidentiality.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, March 24 2006

Broadband Use, Online News Growing Together

The rapid growth of broadband adoption in U.S. homes has led to an increasing number of Americans turning to the Internet for news, a research firm says. On a typical day, 50 million American get their news from the Web, a study released this week by the Pew Internet And American Life Project showed. This number has risen along with the number of adults accessing the Web with high-speed connections.

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-read full story from Yahoo! News, March 23 2006


"60 Minutes" in Web news tie-up with Yahoo

CBS Corp. will showcase segments of its "60 Minutes" television news magazine on the popular Internet portal Yahoo as the TV network seeks to rope in a wider audience for news programs, the companies said on Thursday. The tie-up will begin at the start of the 2006-2007 broadcast season in the third quarter, when "60 Minutes" will launch its 39th year on the air. The two companies will split Internet advertising revenue from the venture.

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-read full story from Yahoo! News, March 23 2006


Largest U.S. Fine Ever Levied for Spam Violations

An Internet marketer will pay a $900,000 fine, the largest ever on spam-related charges, in a consent decree announced today by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Jumpstart Technologies, based in San Francisco, is permanently prohibited from unlawful practices related to the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act as part of the decree, entered in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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-read full story from Yahoo! News, March 23 2006

PCCW gains on rival as business channel debuts

PCCW gains on rival as business channel debuts

PCCW launches its self-produced 24-hour business news channel today, bridging the gap with leading player i-Cable Communications and bringing the Hong Kong pay-television market into a new competitive landscape.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, March 20 2006


Lawsuit alleges Google improperly banishes sites

Google's mysterious methods for ranking websites has come under attack in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, March 20 2006

USA.NET Launches Encrypted E-mail Service

Hosted messaging service provider USA.NET, Denver, said it is now offering its subscribers the ability to encrypt and digitally sign all outgoing messages by simply clicking a button in their existing e-mail application.

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-read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 17 2006


Zantaz Integrates Mailbox Management And Hosted Storage

Zantaz Inc., the Pleasanton, Calif. provider of hosted information retention and discovery management systems, has integrated its mailbox management and compliance archiving systems in a single offering called First Archive On Demand.

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-read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 16 2006


Chambers Says Video Will Drive Collaboration

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said the networking giant in the coming year will focus on improving collaboration by weaving video into enterprise voice, e-mail and instant-messaging applications, part of the company’s push toward unified communications.

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-read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 15 2006

Google product to help retailers
Google has developed a new service enabling retailers to promote their products to a wider audience. The search firm said it would adapt its existing Google Base database into a platform on which retailers could list store details and other information.

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-read full story from BBC News, March 16 2006

Microsoft sues to end bootlegging on eBay

In a continued effort to crack down on distributors of illegal software, Microsoft this week filed suit against eight users of eBay's auction site for allegedly selling counterfeit copies of the company's software online.

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-read full story from Infoworld.com, March 16 2006


Microsoft ALM server online next week
Microsoft formally announced on Thursday at the SD West 2006 conference that Friday, March 17, is the release-to-manufacturing date for its long-awaited collaboration server for ALM, officially known as Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server.
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-read full story from Infoworld.com, March 16 2006

China 'blocking VoIP calls for two years'

China 'blocking VoIP calls for two years'

China has moved to protect its fixed telephone line business by banning free internet telephone services for at least two years, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, March 21 2006

Mirapoint Unveils E-mail Archiving Appliance

Messaging security vendor Mirapoint today brought out a policy-based e-mail archiving appliance that indexes and organizes messages to help companies comply with legal and regulatory requirements for records retention.

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-read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 20 2006


Put Your Antispyware Apps to the Test

Does your antispyware software really work? With security experts warning of "rogue" antispyware products that sometimes do more harm than good, two security researchers have decided to take matters into their own hands.

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-read full story from Yahoo! News, March 20 2006

New bug can crash Internet Explorer

Microsoft is investigating a newly reported flaw in Internet Explorer 6 that could cause the browser to crash when viewing a malicious Web page, the company said Monday.

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-read full story from ZDnet.com, March 20 2006
Video-conferencing opens niche market in cross-continental bonding

For a moment, Marta Jaramillo-Ospina did not recognise the faces on the sleek, flat-screen TV. But the smiling, waving figures quickly brought a look of recognition, then surprise, then joy, to her face.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, March 21 2006

FTC's CAN-SPAM Report Card

FTC releases progress report on Congress's antispam law, but some experts are not impressed.
The federal government's two-year-old antispam law is helping to cut back on unsolicited bulk e-mail, but more must be done to fight the problem. Those are the conclusions of a Federal Trade Commission report, released today, on how well the law is working.

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-read full story from PCWorld.com, March 20 2006
FBI, you've got mail -- NOT!

NEW YORK (AP) -- Budget constraints are forcing some FBI agents to operate without e-mail accounts, according to the agency's top official in New York.

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-read full story from CNN.com, March 20 2006

Web publisher sues over Google index exclusion

If KinderStart.com prevails, the lawsuit could have significant repercussions on the way Google decides to remove Web sites from its index. Google was hit with a lawsuit on Friday by a Web publisher that alleges it has suffered significant financial harm because its site got dropped from the search engine's index.

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-read full story from InfoWord.com, March 20 2006