Email & Instant Messaging

Business workers could soon be free from breaking communication when they fly from one country to another with the new possibility of wireless technology being fitted into planes.

The vast majority of malicious software now in circulation across the Internet is written by organised criminals in an attempt to extort money, rather than the commonly perceived mischievous teenager.

Chief Information Officers face some of the greatest challenges and opportunities they have yet to experience, according to a Gartner report, which forecasts that IP telephony, convergence and instant messaging will be some of the key area...

The percentage of spam clogging up our mailboxes reached record levels last month, with almost nine out of every ten messages junk mail.

The increase in goodwill and general bonhomie experienced by many of us over the festive period will be overshadowed to a degree by a significant increase in the amount of email scams doing the rounds in the lead up to Christmas.

If you think you have a problem with unwanted email, spare a thought for Bill Gates, for the Microsoft chairman reportedly receives around 4 million email messages a day.

There is no doubt that email has some wonderful benefits-it is fast, convenient, is a great way to keep in touch, allows large volumes of information to be transmitted, and can reach many people anywhere in the world-all with the click of a button.

Security experts in Chicago have identified the "window of vulnerability", or signature delay time, as the key way to significantly reduce the high level of email virus outbreaks.

Iron Mountain has bought Connected Corporation in a bid to help protect its customers' through the implementation of compliant information management and new archiving and recovery services.

Much work needs to be done in the corporate email archiving space to make applications more user-friendly, if the results of a new worldwide survey on how workers are coping with the blow out of email messages they have to routinely deal w...

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