Microsoft Rebrands FrontBridge Mail Services

Microsoft Rebrands FrontBridge Mail Services

Microsoft is re-branding FrontBridge hosted e-mail filtering, archiving, continuity, and encryption services as Exchange Hosted Services. The company is positioning the hosted lineup as the "in-the-cloud" alternatives to its on-premise Antigen and Spam Manager offerings. Microsoft bought Sybari and its Antigen line just over a year ago and FrontBridge, Marina Del Rey, Calif., last August.

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BEA seeks to modularize app server

BEA Systems is working to modularize services from its WebLogic Server application server, enabling them to run independently with open source frameworks, a company official said on Thursday.

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Chunghwa plans to raise spending on Internet, advanced mobile services

Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest phone company by revenue, on Thursday said it planned to spend more to expand Internet and third-generation mobile phone services, despite its uncertainty about adding more subscribers.

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China Mobile turns to developing markets for expansion

China Mobile (Hong Kong) will look to developing markets to further its overseas expansion following the acquisition of China Resources Peoples Telephone, according to chairman Wang Jianzhou.

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Google plans to sell 5.3m more shares

Google plans to sell a further 5.3 million shares of its prized stock, hoping to raise more than US$2 billion (HK$15.6 billion) to finance its ambitious plan to expand beyond its Internet-leading search engine.

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U.S. Demands Files From ISPs, Tech Firms

The Justice Department is demanding internal files from dozens of Internet service providers and other technology firms as it seeks to defend a controversial Internet child protection law.

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EBay: patent office dismisses MercExchange claims

Online retailer Online retailer eBay Inc. on Thursday said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had upheld an earlier decision that a patent recorded by MercExchange was "obvious" and should not have been issued.

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Yahoo Japan, SMBC agree on online banking tie-up

Yahoo Japan said it has agreed to team up with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) in Internet banking. Yahoo Japan will take a 14.9 percent stake in a new holding company to be set up by SMBC, Japan's third largest bank, which will put its 57 percent stake in Japan Net Bank, a leading online bank, into the venture.

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JBoss Opens Up Messaging, Web Servers

JBoss Opens Up Messaging, Web Servers

Open source company JBoss Inc. added messaging projects for service-oriented architecture (SOA) on Monday in an effort to boost the company's JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) into the enterprise market. JBoss Messaging, a standards-based messaging platform, aims to help enterprises communicate via computers. JBoss Web Server provides Web server capabilities for Apache Tomcat and JBoss Application users.

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Social Networking Connects For Business
Social networking companies such as Friendster, MySpace, and Google's Orkut have been generating a lot of buzz lately about helping users connect with friends. But it's not clear if these sites are generating much income. Google, like Yahoo and its Yahoo 360 service, can afford to build its user base before making it pay off, but cash-strapped startups need a real business model.

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Spyware And Adware Continue To Plague PCs
The characters who create and distribute spyware eventually reach a crossroads. Some clean up their acts, present themselves as adware aficionados, and do their best to legitimize questionable marketing techniques. Others continue their shady work on the sly. One major player reached a dead end: Adware pusher Claria last week revealed plans to exit the controversial business.

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Internet growth cools, dependence rises

Growth in the use of the Internet has come off its sizzling pace, even as people become more dependant on cyberspace for work and leisure, a global survey showed on Wednesday. Ipsos Insight's annual "Face of the Web" study showed the global online population grew just 5 per cent last year, well behind the 20 per cent growth rate seen in 2004.

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PCCW pleads patience for mobile unit

PCCW chairman Richard Li Tzar-kai says the group's struggling mobile unit needs time to turn a profit, but the firm has no intention of investing in 3G and broadband television to the point of losses. At his first appearance at the results briefing in three years, Mr Li said the company posted 2.5 per cent net profit growth to $1.6 billion for last year, below analysts' forecasts of $1.99 billion.

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Microsoft updates e-mail protection

Microsoft is releasing new versions of its software packages for safeguarding and archiving e-mails and other corporate messages. Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services, which was known as FrontBridge Technologies before Microsoft acquired that company, comprise of four products that can help companies do things like minimise spam and viruses and archive messages for legal and regulatory requirements.

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Blogs come under attack in Iran

On his last visit to Iran, Canadian-based blogger Hossein Derakhshan was detained and interrogated, then forced to sign a letter of apology for his blog writings before being allowed to leave the country.

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Philippine Net users 'to more than double by 2008'

The number of Internet users in the Philippines was expected to more than double to 13.5 million by 2008, an information technology research firm said on Thursday.

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