Email & Instant Messaging

An email doing the rounds which claims to contain photographic evidence that the deposed former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was shot dead during an escape attempt has been identified as a worm by anti-virus experts.

1,000 man hours can be saved each year by an integrated message solution provided by one vendor, according to a survey conducted across 12 countries from four continents.

Lotus Notes emails will be archived automatically under a new system created by iLumin Software Services, which promises to offer effective message archive rules based on the age, size attachment type and folder.

Microsoft has released a new service to help users have access to treat their Outlook accounts and Hotmail accounts as one to enable them to manage information and emails more easily when they work out of the office.

A private messages services has been created by eBay in Australia, specifically for eBay members to provide a much more secure environment for them to exchange messages securely, free from false phishing emails.

The increasingly regulated environment around information storage and retrieval is helping to bring about a boom in email archiving applications, with the market revenue soaring to over US$180 million (AU$237 million) worldwide in 2004, up...

Microsoft's decision to ditch plans to release anti-virus and anti-spam improvements to the Exchange email server will be sure to disappoint many of its customers, despite Microsoft's assertion that it will have little impact, but at least...

In today's business climate, everybody uses email. Most companies, however, still lack formal policies governing its usage. David Braue asks why we're still struggling to manage this fundamental technology.

Meat products maker Hormel may be suffering a public relations drama of the worst kind, but forces are mustering against the scourge of spam. David Braue weighs up the fight against email's worst offenders.

MSN's Hotmail service, which at the latest count has 187 million users worldwide, has ditched McAfee as its antivirus provider, replacing it with rival Trend Micro.

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