Tag: email

  • Mozilla Takes Aim at E-mail with Thunderbird 1.0

    Jim Louderback

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    Based on our initial impressions, the new open-source e-mail client from Mozilla, called Thunderbird, is well worth exploring. It seems to work quite well, both on Web-based mail like Gmail and on POP3 accounts. It also supports IMAP for connecting to Exchange and other servers, but we didn’t test that feature. Outlook Express users should… Read more

  • E-Mail Scam Dupes Linux Users

    E-Mail Scam Dupes Linux Users

    Matthew Broersma

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    Red Hat Inc. on Saturday warned users of an e-mail scam designed to plant malicious code on users’ systems. The malicious e-mail poses as a security update from the vendor, a technique that has become familiar to Windows users, but is a novelty in the Linux world. The e-mail, which has been circulating since late… Read more

  • Google Delves into the Desktop

    Google Delves into the Desktop

    Matthew Hicks

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    Google Inc. upped the ante Thursday in the growing desktop search battle, introducing an application that combines Web results with those from a user’s hard drive. In its beta release, Google Desktop Search supports only the most common file formats and applications. But Google plans in future releases to open access to application developers through… Read more

  • Startup Devises New Way to Squash Worms

    Startup Devises New Way to Squash Worms

    Dennis Fisher

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    While the large anti-virus vendors continue to spend millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours churning out updated signature files, a Utah-based startup this week plans to unveil an entirely new e-mail security solution that needs no signatures and is capable of trapping malicious messages before they reach users’ desktops. Avinti Inc.’s iSolation Server takes… Read more

  • Veritas to Purchase E-Mail Archive Vendor KVS

    Veritas to Purchase E-Mail Archive Vendor KVS

    Brian Fonseca

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    Veritas Software Corp. announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire KVault Software Ltd., a maker of policy-based e-mail archive software, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $225 million. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of September, according to officials of Mountain View, Calif.-based Veritas. Once the purchase is finalized,… Read more

  • Oracle Blends IM, Collaboration

    Oracle Blends IM, Collaboration

    Dennis Callaghan

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    Enterprises looking for integrated messaging and collaboration software will soon get an enhanced offering from Oracle Corp. OCS (Oracle Collaboration Suite) 3.0, due in the fourth quarter, adds an instant messaging capability to complement the suite’s e-mail, voice mail, calendar, Web conferencing and file management features, said officials in Redwood Shores, Calif. Version 3.0 will… Read more