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Thunderbird developers quit Mozilla Google adds Postini e-mail services to Apps Premier suite Google will add e-mail security, compliance, and recovery services to Google Apps Premier edition at no extra charge, boosting an area of this hosted communications and collaboration suite that is key for its adoption by large organizations. October 3, 3:58 a.m. PDT Indian Hotmail users invited to express themselves Microsoft unveiled over 250 custom domain names on Thursday that will allow Indian users of Windows Live Hotmail to choose personalized e-mail addresses that reflect the name of their favorite town in India, their favorite sport, movie and sports celebrities, and even their personality. September 27, 5:54 a.m. PDT Gmail zero-day flaw allows attackers to steal messages Accounts on Google's Gmail can be easily hacked, allowing any past -- and future -- e-mail messages to be forwarded to the attacker's own in-box, a vulnerability researcher said Tuesday. September 27, 4:14 a.m. PDT Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies.  September 26, 2:53 p.m. PDT Transplace beefs up hardware for a virtual world Managing transportation logistics is all about handling scale. As transportation management services firm Transplace added consumer goods companies such as Del Monte, Office Depot, Home Depot, Auto Zone, and DirecTV as customers, it needed to quickly bring server capacity online. Already planning a hardware refresh to support continued growth, CTO Vince Biddlecombe decided to bring in server virtualization at the same time so that he'd have a more scalable, flexible platform for that anticipated growth. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Thunderbird flies: Mozilla spins off its e-mail client Mozilla spun off its Thunderbird e-mail client into a new for-profit subsidiary on Monday and seeded the unnamed company with $3 million in startup money, the open source developer announced. September 18, 6:17 a.m. PDT Security researcher intercepts embassy passwords from Tor A security researcher who collected thousands of sensitive e-mails and passwords from the embassies of countries such as Russia and India blamed systems administrators on Monday for not using encryption to shield their traffic from snooping. September 10, 6:20 a.m. PDT Best of open source applications A hunger for lighter-weight and lower-cost sales and CRM applications has brought great success to SaaS vendors such as Salesforce.com, and also lifted the fortunes of open source offerings in the space. Open source ERP has had a harder time breaking out, but here too there are several impressive offerings to choose from. And if you're looking to open source for an enterprise portal, CMS, or Microsoft Exchange substitute, you will not be disappointed. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Last call: Oliver's parting shot Back in the saddle again… September 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT New Yahoo Mail exits beta Yahoo will close an almost two-year public test for its new version of Yahoo Mail on Monday with several new enhancements, as the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet giant boosts this Webmail service that is key to both its usage and advertising growth. August 26, 8:16 p.m. PDT Enterprise e-mail gets pumped With IBMs launch earlier this month of Lotus Notes 8 and this week's unveiling of Lotus SameTime Version 8, industry analysts say we are beginning to see the evolution of the e-mail client from a communications tool into a coordination channel. And when that happens, IBM may be in the unprecedented position of getting a second chance at knocking off longtime market leader Microsoft Outlook. August 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Lotus Notes and Domino 8 show new life OK, I’ll admit that in my IBM Lotus Notes 7 review about two years ago, I got Version 8’s release date a wee bit off. Hey, the fortune teller I consulted skipped town right after the reading. But my wrap-up hit the mark, saying Notes 8 “should further support composite applications, such as bringing together e-mail, documents, and meetings into a single interface -- a key part of an SOA.” Here’s my initial impression of how well IBM Lotus engineers met this goal and the way they did it. August 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT IBM unveils Version 8 of Lotus Notes, Domino Two years in the making, IBM Lotus division finally unveiled Version 8 of Lotus Notes and Domino this week. August 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Exchange 2007 SP1 packed with goodies This is what happens when your friends have kids. The kids get sick; your friend gets sick. He comes over to help with rebuilding your deck. You get sick. Or, rather, I get sick. As a dog — which is an expression I've never fully understood. But does that dissuade editors from asking for a column? Heck no. I could have been tagged in a drive-by and they'd still be looking for copy. So despite a head that feels like a beach ball stuffed with sand, I've managed to put together some details on Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1, which officially popped out from behind the secret beta earlier this week. August 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft trumps Google on free e-mail storage limit Microsoft is increasing the storage limit for its Web-based e-mail service, surpassing competitor Google's limit but far short of Yahoo's unlimited storage. August 14, 5:45 a.m. PDT Microsoft previews SP1 for Exchange Server 2007 Microsoft is offering a preview of the first service pack for Exchange Server 2007, an update that binds the company's latest e-mail server closer to other so-called unified communications products. August 14, 5:37 a.m. PDT Novell buys endpoint security firm Senforce Novell announced on Monday that it has acquired Senforce Technologies, a provider of endpoint and network security tools, for an undisclosed sum. August 13, 9:40 a.m. PDT Genius Team shines light on e-mail marketing performance On-demand sales and marketing services startup Genius.com is releasing a new product, Genius Team, to enable sales managers to assess how effectively their staff are using e-mail to target prospective customers. July 30, 5:19 a.m. PDT Japan's KDDI to offer Google-based PC, phone e-mail Japan's number two cellphone carrier will launch an e-mail service based on Google's Gmail in September, it said Monday. July 30, 4:32 a.m. PDT Mozilla may separate from Thunderbird to focus on Firefox The Mozilla Foundation is thinking about creating a separate organization to take control of its Thunderbird e-mail application, allowing it to concentrate on development of the Firefox Web browser. July 26, 5:58 a.m. PDT McAfee sets Rootkit Detective free On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations. July 25, 1:12 p.m. PDT TB case highlights e-mail archiving trend E-mail archiving and recovery software has proved itself useful in the case of the American who flew to Europe even though he had tuberculosis (TB). July 10, 7:40 a.m. PDT E-mail worms rarer in 2007 E-mail worms, not long ago the scourge of the Internet, have declined sharply in 2007, a security company has revealed. July 5, 7:54 a.m. PDT Google threatens to drop Gmail in Germany Google is unhappy with proposed German legislation to ban anonymous e-mail accounts and may consider dropping the German version of its Gmail service. June 26, 5:27 a.m. PDT PayPal CTO: Security, mobility to spur growth PayPal's Chief Technology Officer, Scott Thompson, is a prime example of what might be called the "payments geek." June 13, 9:07 a.m. PDT Microsoft gives Vista's Windows Mail the heave-ho Microsoft on Wednesday launched a beta of the new e-mail client designed to give the boot to Vista's four-month-old built-in Windows Mail. June 1, 8:58 a.m. PDT Attensa unlocks knowledge with RSS Attensa has a straightforward mission: To get the right information to the right people at the right time. Although Attensa's goal may not be entirely original, Eric Hayes -- who co-founded the company in 2005 -- believes his company can get it right on all three counts. May 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Funambol upgrades open-source BlackBerry rival Funambol is offering a new version of its open-source software for delivering push e-mail, address book, and calendar functions similar to those available on BlackBerry devices. May 15, 7:52 a.m. PDT Microsoft shows off new unified communications phones Microsoft is launching a qualification program for phones that are compatible with its unified communications products. May 14, 5:35 a.m. PDT Microsoft-Yahoo deal still worth doing When Sun Chairman and then-CEO Scott McNealy first heard about the HP/Compaq merger in 2001, he likened it to ‘two garbage trucks colliding with each other.’ Some analysts see the rumored Microsoft-Yahoo discussions in the same light: an act of desperation by two lumbering incumbents that are falling further behind Google each day. May 7, 9:50 a.m. PDT Microsoft delivers Hotmail upgrade Microsoft has closed the public testing period for Windows Live Hotmail and has begun a months-long process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its Hotmail Web mail service, the company will announce Monday. May 7, 4:21 a.m. PDT The return of stupid user tricks If you've been to the multi-mondo-mega-cineplex lately, you know that we're entering sequel season. Spider-Man 3 just opened, while Shrek the Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End are just around the corner. Not wanting to be upstaged by Spidey, Captain Jack, or an oversized cartoon ogre, InfoWorld is launching its own sequel -- "More Stupider User Tricks: IT Horror Stories Redux" -- a follow-up to last year's popular "Stupid User Tricks" article. Despite the title, and its dubious syntax, our sequel isn't actually a horror flick (well, it may be for some of the participants). Think of it more as a tragicomedy, with elements of an instructional documentary thrown in for good measure. Senior Contributing Editor Oliver Rist, who also wrote last year's installment, has dug up 10 accounts of staffers, managers, bean counters, and others who meddled unwisely in IT's business, often to disastrous effect. Read it and weep … or laugh. And feel free to pass along any tales of ineptitude you may have encountered. After all, Spider-Man, Pirates, and Shrek are already on their third go-round, whereas we are only up to our first sequel. I suspect that "Even More Stupider-er User Tricks" is just waiting to be written. Leaving stupidity well behind us, I'd like to introduce a new video feature we've been developing behind the scenes. "The Week Ahead with Gina Smith" is a weekly planner that will give you a heads-up on tech events for the next seven days, from trade shows and product launches to court rulings and other goodies. I'm sure many of you will recognize Smith's name, whether from her days as founding editor in chief of E2 (which created the E3 gaming conference), her 10 years as a nationally syndicated radio tech-talk show host, or her gig at ABC, where she was an on-camera reporter covering technology for Good Morning America and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. And that doesn't include her experience writing seven books or heading up The New Internet Company, a Larry Ellison network computer startup. We’re lucky to have Gina on board here at InfoWorld, and I encourage you to check out her work bright and early every Monday morning. Last week, we rolled out the Month of Enterprise Startups, day-by-day profiles of 31 freshly scrubbed companies vying to crack into the enterprise market. This week we continue the parade with seven more contenders. We also decided to circle back to last year's "15 Tech Startups to Watch" to see how they're doing. In "Startups Class of '06: Where are they now?", writer Galen Gruman learned that most of the lucky 15 are continuing to execute on plan: Some got purchased (Jotspot by Google, Akimbi by VMWare/EMC), and a few shook up their management and refocused their products. But the bottom line: All are still alive and kicking. I'm sure this year's crop of young 'uns are hoping for a similar result 12 months from now. May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Don't bail on e-mail Incident: A case for covering your rear end when it comes to server support, submitted once again by the highly popular “Name Withheld.” According to Mr. Withheld, “We normally have an admin rotation for server problems on the weekends. But this time the staff was smaller because we’d just lost two techs in a single week. Both left to go to other jobs. I could have called an outside outfit to cover us on the weekend, but I just didn’t make the time, and by Friday it was too late.” Seems Mr. Withheld had plans for the weekend, as did his last remaining tech staffer. So he figured, “What the hell, we haven’t had a problem in several months. It’ll be okay.” May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Windows Live Hotmail to debut Monday Microsoft will finally bring its completely revamped version of its popular online e-mail service out of beta and into full release on Monday. May 3, 12:00 p.m. PDT Spammers use new technique to evade filters Spammers have stepped up efforts to use encrypted attachments to evade filtering systems, service provider Email Systems has reported. May 3, 7:34 a.m. PDT RIM readies software client for non-Blackberry devices New software from Research in Motion (RIM) will enable all BlackBerry wireless applications to run on smartphones from rival handset makers. April 23, 4:29 a.m. PDT RIM finally breaks silence on BlackBerry outage The addition of a new software routine caused the multihour failure of Research in Motion's BlackBerry messaging service in North America earlier this week, the company said Friday. April 20, 4:17 a.m. PDT Microsoft teams with Unisys for free Exchange trial Microsoft has partnered with Unisys to offer a free trial of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that enables enterprise customers to evaluate the software's e-mail, calendaring, and unified-messaging features. April 19, 3:51 p.m. PDT Mozilla releases Thunderbird 2 e-mail client Mozilla unveiled the final version of its open-source Thunderbird 2 e-mail client on Thursday, improving how users can organize and label their messages. April 19, 7:12 a.m. PDT BlackBerry service restored, slow response irks users BlackBerry service was mostly restored by late morning Wednesday East Coast time, following a widespread North American outage that started Tuesday evening and has left some users irked enough by Research in Motion's laggard customer service that they are considering finding an alternative. April 18, 8:53 a.m. PDT Update: BlackBerry suffers widespread outage The BlackBerry wireless e-mail service from Research In Motion appears to have suffered a widespread outage starting Tuesday evening in the U.S. April 18, 4:42 a.m. PDT EMC taps users to expedite e-discovery Seeking to improve enterprise governance of e-mail and file archiving systems, EMC today announced upgrades to its EmailXtender e-mail management and DiskXtender file archiving products. April 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft e-mail upgrade experiences glitch Some of the beta testers for Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail service are getting an increase in storage, but the extra capacity isn't being introduced as smoothly as some of them might hope. April 5, 4:23 a.m. PDT Microsoft SaaS plan has image problem Microsoft plans to make expanding its SaaS (software as a service) strategy a priority in the next 12 months, but the company continues to suffer an image problem as it struggles to prove that it can compete in this new services market. April 4, 4:57 p.m. PDT Yahoo opens up Web mail APIs Yahoo is opening up its Web mail platform to external developers, so that they can create plug-ins, utilities and applications for the popular Yahoo Mail service. March 29, 4:46 a.m. PST Yahoo to offer unlimited storage capacity for Web mail Yahoo will give users of its free Web-based e-mail service access to unlimited storage capacity starting in May, according to a post on a company blog. March 28, 4:27 a.m. PST Google Apps' Gmail faces downtime problems For at least the third time this month, Google is grappling with performance and availability problems in the Gmail service of Google Apps, the suite of hosted services that many consider a potential threat to Microsoft's Office suite of desktop software. March 27, 4:17 p.m. PST Otellini e-mail among those missing in AMD case E-mail messages from some of Intel's most senior executives are among those that should have been preserved but were not after the chip-maker was sued for alleged antitrust violations by Advanced Micro Devices, according to a court transcript released by AMD. March 12, 4:30 a.m. PST Office Live needs a makeover First, I've got to do a quick correction on the Daylight Saving Time (DST) snafu I wrote about in my previous column -- even though by the time you read this, there's a good chance the whole mess is already over. It turns out that Redmond is trying to help its customers to negotiate this truly goofy problem. Microsoft has put numerous product engineers and support people on a DST-only team. Folks with the right kind of application support can reach these guys to avoid a daylight nightmare. March 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Report: Chinese Gmail rebuffs Google offer to buy domain name Beijing ISM Internet Technology Development Co., the Chinese company behind the Gmail.cn e-mail service, declined to comment on a report that Google has renewed its attempts to acquire the Gmail.cn domain name. February 28, 4:15 a.m. PST Gmail finally opens to all Google dropped the invitation-only restriction for its Gmail e-mail service on Wednesday, one of its linchpin applications complementing its popular search engine. February 14, 6:12 a.m. PST T-Mobile to offer consumer push e-mail and more After rolling out push e-mail service to its enterprise customers, T-Mobile International now plans to extend the offering to the consumer market, in addition to launching a number of new "community" services. February 13, 9:30 a.m. PST Yahoo Mail gains IM integration Yahoo Inc. will soon start to fulfill a promise it made to users several months ago to tie its new Web mail service with its instant messaging application. February 12, 1:58 p.m. PST Nokia hopes to push mobile e-mail in enterprise Nokia is aiming to boost the use of mobile e-mail in the enterprise with a new release of its Intellisync software and several new handsets aimed at business users. February 12, 6:59 a.m. PST LOLing all the way to the bank Maxime Seguineau helped found enterprise messaging firm Antepo in February 2000, just as reality was puncturing the hype-filled bubble of the dot-com craze. Back then, IM was mostly for teens and college students, who used free, online chat networks by AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo to keep in touch. Seguineau saw past the crazy colors of ICQ, the cartoonlike appeal of AIM, and the incomprehensible shorthand of IMers, to IM’s promise for the enterprise, which he dubbed “availability based communications,” now called “presence.” February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Today’s end-user: Hardly working The U.S. workplace is the new dysfunctional family. I’ve reached that conclusion after stumbling on a string of statistics that make me wonder how American companies ever get anything done, much less show a profit. February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Users, analysts: No rush to adopt Exchange 2007 Windows Vista isn't the only recently released Microsoft software that will give users headaches when they upgrade their systems. Corporate users, partners, and analysts said upgrading to Exchange Server 2007 from previous versions also may be a lengthy and painful process for companies, which may want to take a wait-and-see approach to the new software. February 2, 4:12 p.m. PST TeleFlip delivers e-mail to any mobile phone The team behind TeleFlip not only hopes you'll use their free service, which allows mobile phone users to receive e-mail on any cell phone, but that you'll also change your terminology from "I'll e-mail you that address" to "I'll flip you that address". January 30, 3:00 a.m. PST WebEx adds e-mail to hosted apps suite WebEx Communications has developed an e-mail service for its WebOffice hosted applications suite for small businesses, which already includes a document manager, group calendar, database, task manager, and Web meetings. January 29, 10:50 a.m. PST Palm finally delivers real push e-mail After many months, even years, of promising an e-mail push technology equivalent to what the RIM Blackberry service offers, it looks like Palm has finally done it. January 25, 2:40 p.m. PST Upgrading to Vista? Proceed with caution Certainly no coincidence, Microsoft has decked out its much-anticipated OS upgrade with beautiful landscape wallpapers — vistas, to be exact. But, as calming as these background images may be for end-users getting acquainted with Vista, for IT directors, the landscape approaching an enterprise rollout of any new Windows operating system has always been rocky. Convincing management with compelling ROI, quelling grumpy user rebellions, and making sure the whole thing doesn’t blow up in your face are by now well-known impediments along any Windows migration path. It’s enough to make IT departments considering the journey downright cautious. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft, Nortel unveil ICA's first products Microsoft and Nortel Networks top executives unveiled on Wednesday the first offerings from a unified communications alliance the companies launched last July. January 17, 12:06 p.m. PST Brace for Exchange 2007 bumps CES is over, I'm 41, the Jesuits have gone home, and I'm sick as a dog. It's been an eventful week. January 17, 3:00 a.m. PST Learning to consume We tried. We really tried. We had every intention of sticking to our knitting — reporting on a slate of enterprise computing topics, from blade servers to SOA deployment strategies. January 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Salesforce teams up with communications giant Siemens The SaaS (software-as-a-service) model continues to gain adherents and strength as Salesforce.com announces this week that it will team up with Siemens, a global technology giant to offer a mashup between Salesforce's CRM service and Siemens HiPath OpenScape communications application. January 8, 11:00 a.m. PST Capitalize on emerging collaboration options Messaging vendors have long been packing their wares with features in hopes of providing an all-encompassing platform that fulfills every enterprise’s collaboration needs. Rather than shell out far too much again this year for seldom or inefficiently used capabilities, why not consider emerging alternatives as a way to assemble a collaboration environment suited to your particular budget and needs? January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft Collaboration 101 I spent my second holiday season in a row at Pebble Beach. I won't gloat too much about that, except to say that when you're standing on the 7th at Pebble, the word Vista takes on a whole new meaning. Everything was great until I got back to the hotel, checked e-mail, and saw a reader missive complaining about my coverage of SharePoint and Groove. January 3, 3:00 a.m. PST Google closes Gmail cross-site scripting vulnerability Google Inc. has fixed a flaw that would have allowed Web sites to harvest information from Gmail contact lists, a problem that could have let spammers collect reams of new e-mail addresses. January 2, 7:04 a.m. PST Microsoft ends 2006 with a bang Many companies had significant impacts on the IT technology landscape in 2006, but Microsoft stands alone in one special category: Prolific Tech Spewage. Vista, Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server, and Exchange Server 2007 are the four releases on everyone’s lips today, but if you cast your eye back across the narrows of 2006, you’ll see that the Redmond elves were busy with launch events all year long, not just in November. Let’s do a short recap: Exchange Hosted Services, Forefront Client Security, SharePoint Designer 2007, two System Center client/server releases, Small Business Server 2003 Release 2, Windows Live and (more importantly) Office Live, updates to Virtual Server, and VoIP capability for Desktop Communicator, just for starters. Developers got loads of goodies in 2006 as well (updates to Visual Studio, ASP.NET AJAX, the Robotics Studio, and more), and even the after-hours crowd got new toys as Microsoft handily spanked the Wii and the PlayStation -- at least this year. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Beyond search: Google specialty services Even people who have never opened a Web browser in their life know about Google -- but the undisputed king of search is about much more than just keywords, text ads, and ten-per-page results. December 28, 1:02 p.m. PST Sea change at SAP If anyone doubts that competition spurs change, let them sit down with Dennis Moore, general manager for emerging solutions at SAP, and talk about what SAP has on tap for 2007. As I see it, what’s coming out of SAP this year represents a sea change taking place across the software industry. December 26, 3:00 a.m. PST Profits overflow at BlackBerry maker RIM Revenue and profit both surged at Research in Motion Ltd. in the third quarter, driven by strong sales of its first consumer-focused device, the BlackBerry Pearl. December 22, 9:57 a.m. PST Seven, Visto battle follows RIM, NTP path Seven Networks Inc. may be gambling that the timing of its push e-mail patent battle will work out better than it did for Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM). December 21, 5:09 a.m. PST Indian operator offers BlackBerry rival Idea Cellular, a large mobile services company in India, has introduced a push e-mail service, called Easy Mail, for users of its GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) service. December 19, 9:36 a.m. PST BlackBerry to finally launch in Taiwan The popular BlackBerry service will finally launch in Taiwan this week after being delayed in order to gain regulatory approval, a company representative confirmed Monday. December 18, 5:03 a.m. PST Microsoft releases Exchange Server 2007 Microsoft on Friday finished development on a new version of its Exchange messaging server a week after the company celebrated its launch alongside significant new releases of the Windows client OS and Microsoft Office. December 8, 8:59 a.m. PST Google to host e-mail, build portal for BSkyB Broadcaster and Internet service provider British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) has asked Google to host e-mail and other services for its broadband customers in the U.K. Their collaboration could also lead to the creation of targeted TV ads. December 7, 5:32 a.m. PST Data export, delivered From time to time I get recruited to help someone export mail and contacts from one e-mail program and import the data into another. The fact that a civilian must recruit a geek to accomplish this seemingly mundane task speaks volumes about our industry’s sad history of data lock-in. December 6, 3:00 a.m. PST China Mobile offers push e-mail on Windows devices China Mobile Communications, the country's largest mobile operator, will soon offer Microsoft's push e-mail service to its subscribers, the two companies said Monday. December 4, 9:02 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Novell pulls plug on Hula collaboration server project The future of Hula, the open-source collaboration server project initiated by Novell, is in jeopardy since Novell pulled staff and funding from the project, according to a Hula newsgroup posting. November 29, 4:16 a.m. PST Microsoft: No shutdown switch for Office 2007 Microsoft Corp. has no plans to add a controversial Windows Vista antipiracy feature directly to its Office 2007 suite, but will consider offering it as an add-on system, the company said Tuesday. November 21, 9:56 a.m. PST Quest releases tool for SharePoint migration Quest Software has released a new tool to move public folders from Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server software to SharePoint Server 2007. November 16, 4:50 a.m. PST Microsoft hits rough patches with managed services Microsoft is nurturing a plan to expand its work in managed services over the next year as companies look to reduce the cost of their internal IT management, a top company executive said Tuesday. November 14, 5:12 a.m. PST Office Live a smart move Microsoft was handing out press accounts to Office Live Premium about a week ago, so we're tinkering with it. We'll do the hands-on part somewhere else, but it's worth discussing Microsoft's strategy here. Bottom line: This is the best New Economy, Web 2.0 Internet move I've seen Microsoft make in a long time. November 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft: Office 2007 download ready Dec. 1 Microsoft confirmed on Monday that it has completed work on Office 2007's system code and released it to manufacturing. November 6, 11:10 a.m. PST Google translates services to new languages Google has translated the private-label e-mail, instant messaging, telephony, and calendaring services it offers Web site operators into 17 new languages. November 2, 7:21 a.m. PST Google preps mobile app for Gmail Google plans to improve access to Gmail via cell phones with an application that enhances its performance and interface in mobile devices. November 2, 5:56 a.m. PST IronPort to buy Postx Looking to expand its security appliance offerings, IronPort Systems plans to acquire PostX, a vendor of e-mail encryption software. November 1, 7:30 a.m. PST Birth of the killer app Apple Computer is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its “killer app,” the Apple iPod MP3 player. But Eric Allman, Chief Science Officer at Sendmail, is among those Internet pioneers celebrating the anniversary of an even older and more seminal killer app: Internet e-mail, which celebrates an anniversary of sorts this October: It has been 25 years since work started on SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), which gave birth to modern e-mail communications. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Authentication the message for next round in spam fight E-mail filters have become effective at preserving our in-boxes, creating the illusion that spam has been tamed. But the bulk of spam is growing. MessageLabs said about 70 percent of all e-mail traffic as of this week, and 66 percent this year, was bogus. October 26, 4:24 p.m. PDT SAP cofounder backs new Open Source Forum Hasso Plattner, the billionaire cofounder of business software maker SAP, has teamed with IBM and Deutsche Telekom to host a forum aimed at giving open source software entrepreneurs an opportunity to present their business ideas to venture capitalists and other IT experts. October 26, 5:57 a.m. PDT Visiting Vista RC2, Part Two I started a two-part series in my previous column on living in Vista RC2 for a week. I haven't stopped using it yet, so it's actually been two and a half weeks, but who's counting? October 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft adds Sender ID to list of free specs As part of an ongoing initiative to give users access to its technology, Microsoft Corp. Monday added a format for fighting spoof e-mail to a list of specifications that can be used freely for development. October 23, 1:03 p.m. PDT BlueTie provides free hosted collaboration to SMBs Looking to broaden the appeal of its hosted e-mail and calendaring services, BlueTie on Monday began offering the collaboration services for free. The company also unveiled its new plan for generating revenue via partnerships with third-party business service providers. October 23, 5:59 a.m. PDT MessageLabs obtains $60M loan to boost research MessageLabs, one of a handful of smaller security vendors competing in a cut-throat market, has secured a $60 million loan that it will use to bolster its research and development efforts, the company said Thursday. October 19, 6:43 a.m. PDT RIM's stock options probe delays filing of results Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), the maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless device, became one of the latest technology companies to warn that a stock-options investigation will delay the filing of its financial results. October 16, 8:09 a.m. PDT Microsoft offers Office integration for backend apps With the release of Office Business Applications (OBA) Reference Application Pack (RAP) this week, Microsoft in essence is acknowledging that they are on to something big in the enterprise market. October 11, 2:30 p.m. PDT > Application development > Collaboration > Applications > Collaboration > Applications > Internet applications > Applications |
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