Email & Instant Messaging
SharePoint solutions provider Colligo is to open a new office in Australia in response to the 49% growth in partner business in the region from 2013 to 2014.
Microsoft has dropped the Preview tag for the Microsoft Outlook app for Android phones and tablets, bringing equality with the iOS version.
Some interesting insights have emerged from a large-scale study of email usage undertaken by Yahoo which looked at the habits of more than 2 million users exchanging 16 billion emails over several months.
IBM announced on April 2 the availability of IBM Verse, a new cloud-based messaging service that incorporates built-in search and data analytics. IBM says Verse integrates email, calendars, file sharing, instant messaging and social.
OPSWAT has announced the release of the new Mail Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server for their multi-anti-malware scanning and threat prevention product Metascan. The Mail Agent is a result of OPSWAT¹s recent acquisition of Red Earth Software, developer of email security solutions for Exchange Server.
Responding to criticism of her use of a personal email account for US Government business, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that recordkeeping requirements would be met because she forwarded mail from her personal email account to US State Department staff where they would be permanently archived. However a new report from the US Office of the Inspector General has blasted Departmental email management practices and concludes that staff only keep a tiny fraction as records.
If Hilary Clinton turns to Office365 instead of her own personal email server she might have a better chance of recalling what was in deleted email, with new flexibility announced for the Microsoft cloud platform that extends beyond the 30 day permanent window.
Recently, Microsoft had to solve a common archive migration problem for a Global 300 pharmaceutical company. The company was using a legacy archive platform that wasn’t meeting its needs. So its email management team made a great decision to move the data from the legacy email archive to Microsoft Office 365.
The email address as we know it was born when Ray Tomlinson introduced the “@” sign in 1977, since which email has continually grown in popularity as a communication tool for work and pleasure – until last year. For the first time ever, 2014 recorded a sharp decrease in the number of emails sent around the world, from 204m per second in 2013 to 138.8m per second in 2014.
NetDocuments, the cloud-based document and email management service, has acquired Decisiv Email from Recommind. Recommind Australia is responsible for the product development of Decisiv Email, a commercial client and server software for enterprise collaborative email management leader in the legal industry.
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