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April 17, 2007

Free Our Mobile Email
Written by Katie Fehrenbacher, gigaom.com - April 16, 2007
The over-funded and over-litigated world of push mobile email is about to get an upstart free service from an entrepreneur with substantial roots in the industry. The New York Times writes about Nicholas Fodor, the founder of Coral Gables, Florida-based SetNet, which will launch a free mobile push email option called Freedom Mail, perhaps as early as next month.
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100 Megabits to the home by 2015?
Written by Om Malik, gigaom.com April 16, 2007

Can Americans dream about a day when they get a 100-megabit-per-second broadband connection, delivered over fiber? FTTH Council, says yes, and is pushing the US government to adopt a 100 Megabit Nation policy. The Council says that we have the technology, and the carriers (and cable providers) have the networks to make it all a reality - with a little pressure from Washington D.C.


Netvibes Launches Universe: Customized Public Pages
Michael Arrington, techcrunch.com – Apr 16, 2007

This afternoon Netvibes will announce the launch of Netvibes Universe, allowing users to create highly customized versions of Netvibes and publish them for public access. Netvibes has created 100 or so branded versions for the launch - users will be able to create these in about six weeks.

In addition to making the page public, publishers can also highly customize their Universe page by adding their own CSS and HTML.

WEB 2.0 : Wikis, blogs, RSS aim for the workplace
Computerworld, MA – April 16, 2007

As businesses worldwide debate the pros and cons of using wikis, tagging, Web mashups, syndicated feeds and blogs, the Web 2.0 Expo opened Sunday in San Francisco with a gaggle of vendors betting these Internet tools belong in the workplace.
The promise of simplified and more effective collaboration among employees, partners and clients has caught the attention of business managers. Still, although a hit among consumers, these Web 2.0 products must meet special requirements for business use in areas like availability, performance, scalability and security.

New webmail feature gives TotalBlock three-in-one appeal
Computerworld Australia, Australia – Apr 17, 2007

TotalBlock Pty Ltd has added webmail capability to its Australian-developed anti-spam solution. This makes TotalBlock a unique three-in-one offering, as it also guards against network overloads caused by storming, harvesting and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.


New IM worm targets Skype users
ZDNet – Apr 16, 2007

A new instant-messaging pest that spreads using the chat feature in Skype has surfaced, security firm F-Secure warned Monday.

The worm, dubbed Pykse.A, is similar to threats that affect instant-messaging applications. A targeted Skype user will receive a chat message with text and a Web link that looks like it goes to a JPEG file on a Web site, F-Secure said on its Web site.


New worm wriggles on Skype
PCWorld, New Zealand – Apr 16, 200

A worm targeting Skype’s VoIP (voice over internet protocol) application is harvesting email addresses and directing users to a range of sites hosting other malicious software, security vendors said Monday.

Once a machine is infected, the worm sends a malicious link via instant messages to other users in person’s Skype contact list, according to F-Secure’s blog.


JangoMail Improves E-Mail Marketing Campaign Deliverability with ...
TMC Net, CT - 17 hours ago

JangoMail Improves E-Mail Marketing Campaign Deliverability with Support for DomainKeys and the Emerging DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Authentication Protocol