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Securing and Controlling the New Internet at the Web Gateway
White Papers In a corporate environment these are deployed alongside enterprise collaboration tools - Unified Communication platforms such as Microsoft Office Communications Server and IBM Lotus Sametime. Organizations are now faced with the challenge of...
[November 14, 2009, 0:21]
Mobile phones key to e-commerce security
News The service has been tested by service providers including BT Ignite and Your Communications, and is intended to allow employees to access corporate applications, or end users to access commerce sites.
[September 4, 2002, 9:36]
Microsoft acquires second VoIP firm
News Microsoft Office Live Communications Server, a corporate instant messaging system, next year. Live Communications Server already enables PC-to-PC VoIP capabilities. Microsoft plans to link the software to its corporate instant message system and...
[November 3, 2005, 13:50]
Companies told to clamp down on IM use
News Companies are being advised to keep archives of all their IM communications for at least three years. Firms have to remember that regardless of the informality of instant messaging, it is still subject to the same requirements as email...
[June 19, 2003, 11:23]
Technology hype comes under scrutiny
News Gartner believes podcasting will be successful largely because it is "an extremely efficient method for delivering audio and spoken-word content to niche audiences and as such could become an important corporate communications tool".
[August 24, 2005, 16:15]
Consumer-tech use threatens corporate security
News Consumer-based communications tools such as Hotmail, instant messaging and VoIP are used by most employees, often from work and also as a way to transfer work materials to and from their PCs at home. In a report, Gmail, iPhones and Wiis: Preparing...
[June 18, 2007, 8:52]
Sybase snuggles up with Siemens, but do you care?
Blog From the corporate blurb machine, “By partnering with Sybase we can offer our customers the management capabilities for all forms of mobile devices that they require, enhancing the usability and the ‘industrialization’ of fixed mobile convergence...
[September 23, 2009, 8:53]
Presence heads for omnipotence
News Advanced presence means integrating email servers and corporate IM servers, voice communications and collaboration systems that allow remote access to centrally stored documents. Gurdeep Singh Pall, Microsoft's general manager for Live...
[March 17, 2004, 10:50]
Ballmer leads new Microsoft witness list
News Gregg Sutherland, Qwest Communications International's senior vice president of corporate strategy, testified on Microsoft's behalf earlier in the day. Four third-party witnesses also were removed from the witness list: Avanade chief excutive...
[April 30, 2002, 13:45]
Comdex 2001: Microsoft preps messaging for business
News He sees this and other interactive communications, such as videoconferencing, gaining a foothold in some unexpected markets, including among Wall Street brokers. Krossa credited file-swapping service Napster for reinvigorating developer interest in...
[November 13, 2001, 10:11]
Juniper makes $67.5m VoIP acquisition
News Juniper, a rival of networking giant Cisco, will use technology from Kagoor to sell its communications equipment to telephone companies that are increasing their use of VoIP services. Session border control devices, built by Kagoor and other...
[March 30, 2005, 14:50]
Barrett: Chips with everything
News Computing will probably recover faster than communications. Sales of communications chips, however, are likely to remain lacklustre. We hope the second half of 2003 (for communications) will be better than the first half," he said.
[February 19, 2003, 11:25]
Microsoft adds IM software to Office
News The software giant said the application will now be called Microsoft Office Real-Time Communications Server 2003. The branding change comes nearly two months after the company said the product would be called Real-Time Communications Server 2003.
[May 27, 2003, 15:53]
Microsoft gazes into e-business crystal ball
News At the infrastructure level we have things making sure that the interaction of the communications can be secure," unlike typical consumer IM, Hunter said. The software titan is positioning Greenwich as a real-time communications and collaboration...
[October 10, 2002, 8:00]
MSN splits into two
News MSN will divide into one unit focusing on information and another focusing on communications. The communications division will consist of popular MSN products such as the Web-based email service Hotmail, instant messaging, the Passport log-in...
[October 30, 2003, 9:35]
Mobile Encryption is not Enough
Blog Firstly, DLP components residing at servers, PCs or dedicated network appliances which intercept and filter data in all communications channels used by those devices. The only way to achieve truly encryption-based protection against mobile data...
[October 19, 2009, 9:43]
Where the lobbying power lies
News Ed Black, the president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, boasted a $980,000 salary in 2004. It's well-known that after landmark events like the Microsoft antitrust trial — and, to a lesser extent, the Communications Decency...
[March 29, 2006, 18:05]
Network monitoring reveals hidden P2P traffic
News Among these companies are Packeteer, Allot Communications, AssetMetrix and a lengthening list of others. Narayanan, chief executive of Allot Communications. Now it's a different angle that we're hearing in corporate America.
[August 28, 2003, 9:30]
Microsoft adopts old tricks to push IM
News What Live Communications Server does in context is put presence and instant messaging as the glue that cuts across applications," said Ed Simnett, lead product manager for Microsoft's Live Communications Server division.
[October 21, 2003, 11:30]
Sun rises on corporate IM
News These features are designed to bring the technology into compliance with regulations governing brokerage customer communications. Patrick Dorsey, group manager for Sun ONE communications products, said the standalone IM server will continue to...
[February 27, 2003, 11:47]
