Email & Instant Messaging

After more than 13 years of continuous publication by Knapp Communications Pty Limited, Image & Data Manager has been acquired by Transmit Media, a company formed by current editor Bill Dawes.

An email archiving extension has been added to DocuLex's Archive Studio product line, providing the ability to pull inbound and outbound email from a Microsoft Exchange Journal mailbox.

Microsoft has released a public beta of Exchange Server 2010, featuring new integrated e-mail archive and due out in the second half of 2009.

Web 2.0 is safe for corporate use with the new Websense V10000 secure Web gateway appliance, which embeds more than 1800 advanced analytics and real-time content inspection and classification technologies.

SourceOne is a new email archiving solution from EMC and the first element in the company's next generation platform for archiving, e-discovery and compliance.

Email management firm Xobni has announced the general availability of version 1.7 of its inbox management tool, which offers a number of performance enhancements.

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is adopting the Microsoft Live@Edu solution for email for its 40,000 students, providing access to Outlook Live, Office Live Workspace and SkyDrive storage.

Barracuda Networks has whipped the sheet of its new small business message archiving appliance, promising support for up to 75 users and Exchange stubbing features for US$1,999 (AU$3,038).

Compliance and search capabilities have been updated in Mirapoint's new RazorSafe email archiving appliances, the first major upgrade since the Mirapoint acquisition of Intradyn in 2008.

AVG E-mail Server Edition 8.5 now offers a central Anti-Spam module, which filters out unwanted e-mails and attempted phishing attacks at the server level.

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