Email & Instant Messaging

Worldwide spam volumes have undergone a precipitous drop this week, with levels of junk email dropping by a whopping 75 percent following the disconnection of a hosting provider in the US functioning as the nucleus for an army of spam machines.

According to a new survey from Proofpoint, IT executives are still not taking the need for email archiving seriously, with nearly 60 percent of those surveyed having no email archiving solution in place.

ProcessOne, an instant messaging (IM) solutions provider with over 35 million registered users in the world, has launched what it claims is the first business-class IM client for the iPhone.

As to be expected, spammers and malware writers have attempted to jump on board the wave of news surrounding President-elect Barack Obama, with a veritable tsunami of malicious Obama emails flooding inboxes around the world.

A hosted solution to delivering files up to 2GB has been launched by a subsidiary of Brisbane-based software developer Manaccom.

A Queensland resident is at the centre of a massive spam crackdown, with the US’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) taking action against one of the world’s largest spam networks.

Proofpoint 5.5, the latest version of the company's integrated email and data security solution, offers improved bounce management features that block 100 percent of "backscatter" spam.

Storage management and disaster recovery software provider Acronis has announced that it is shipping recovery software for Microsoft Exchange, saying it offers fast backups & recoveries for mission-critical mail servers.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider LiveOffice has launched a new email continuity service that it says is perfect for those expected or unexpected outages.

New research from the UK’s Cambridge University has found that the first letter in an email address plays a large part in determining just how much spam one receives.

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