AMAX Enters Appliance Business With E-Mail Server

AMAX Enters Appliance Business With E-Mail Server

AMAX Information Technologies is offering VARs a mail server appliance based on its own e-mail software. The system builder and distributor is showing off the device at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose this week. The Winmail e-mail server is aimed at small business and SOHO customers -- those that want an e-mail server "but don't need the complexity of [Microsoft's] Exchange," said James Huang, product marketing specialist at AMAX, Fremont, Calif.

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-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, April 4 2006


Symantec Addresses IM Security, Compliance

Symantec released Monday a new version of its IM Manager designed to shore up vulnerabilities in instant messaging networks and address compliance issues.

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Privacy complaint over Yahoo's mail leak

A complaint has been laid with Hong Kong's privacy commissioner alleging that the local arm of internet giant Yahoo provided information that led to the jailing of mainland journalist Shi Tao.

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-read full story from SCMP, April 1 2006


Yahoo improves My Web

Yahoo was set to unveil on Thursday enhancements to its My Web service that lets people archive search results and share the links with each other. Now, users will be able to share interesting Web links not just with people who use Yahoo 360, but anyone, the company said.

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RIM To Offer Yahoo Services On The Blackberry

Research In Motion Inc. on Wednesday said it plans to add Yahoo Inc. Web services to the BlackBerry, including email, instant messaging and search. Later this year, new BlackBerries will include icons that will give users of the mobile device single-click access to Yahoo services from the Blackberry's main screen, a Yahoo spokesman said. Current BlackBerry users will be able to download the services in a couple of weeks.
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Instant Messaging Is The Enterprise's Achilles Heel: Report

When it comes to security, the enterprise's Achilles Heel is instant messaging, and overall, IM-related threats are increasingly dangerous because IM has become nearly ubiquitous in both corporations and the home.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 5 2006

Microsoft Gains, Apache/Linux Declines in Web Server Market

Microsoft Corp. took a big chunk of the Web server market this month at the expense of Apache running on Linux, as a major domain registrar moved to the Windows platform, a research and security firm said Thursday.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 6 2006

Collaborate online with Vyew

Web site Vyew (think view) lets you collaborate in real-time with other users in a web based meeting room. You can either start an anonymous meeting (requires no registration) and invite up to 2 users, or, if you go through the free registration, you can invite up to 20 participants and get a few other members-only benefits.

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Google faces rivals for city Wi-Fi project

Google faces rivals for city Wi-Fi project

As San Francisco leaders near a decision on who should build and operate a citywide Wi-Fi network, an experienced municipal wireless provider and a nonprofit group working with two IT heavy-hitters appear to remain in the fray along with Google and partner EarthLink.

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-read full story from infoworld.com, April 3 2006


Phishers set hidden traps on eBay

With about 181 million users worldwide, eBay is arguably the world's most popular online marketplace. As such, the San Jose, Calif., company, with its online payment unit PayPal, is among the biggest targets for online scammers--including phishers.

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-read full story from ZDnet Technology News, March 31 2006
Microsoft aims to take the desktop 'Live'

Microsoft started testing Windows Live Mail Desktop this week. It will let people manage their Hotmail--or e-mail from other accounts such as Yahoo Mail and Gmail from Google--offline without accessing a Web-based server. They still must connect to the Web to send and receive e-mail.

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-read full story from ZDnet Technology News, March 31 2006
Unease over how the net is run
Internet governance issues usually attract the attention of a relatively small number of net users. However, concerns associated with the current system have begun to grow, writes internet law professor Michael Geist.

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-read full story from BBC News, April 3 2006

Government sites fail web tests
More than half of government and council websites contain errors and cause problems for disabled people, research shows. Some 60% of UK government websites contain HTML errors, according to a study by the University of Southampton.

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-read full story from BBC News, April 3 2006
China's 'Net policies in spotlight
China's booming Internet usage continues unabated, with latest figures suggesting that as many as an estimated 110 million Web surfers are on the mainland.

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-read full story from BBC News, March 26 2006

US newspapers try to cash in on blogs
With a new blog created every second, some media futurists have predicted that "citizen journalists" will be producing half of the world's news by 2021. A number of newspapers are trying to cash in on the trend by creating online venues where bloggers can share local news and opinions.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 3 2006
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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-read full story from Yahoo! News, March 30 2006