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Top 5 Advantages of Using Hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007 and SharePoint Services: With business decisions resting on accurate, up-to-date information, organizations are recognizing the need for a comprehensive messaging and collaboration solution that keeps everyone in sync - an application that enables team members to effectively share information and quickly respond to others. That's why businesses of all sizes are evaluating full-featured,...; Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services, Collaboration, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., USA.NET, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software; Webcasts 2008-02-21
Hosted Microsoft Exchange: The Business Case for SMBs: Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need the productivity gains that come with a feature-rich, secure, and highly reliable "big enterprise" messaging solution like Microsoft Exchange. However, the internal deployment of such a solution has become increasingly complex and cost-prohibitive for many of today's SMBs. Download this white...; Tags: Business Case, Collaboration, Microsoft Exchange Server, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Small And Medium Business, USA.NET, Smb/Sme, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2008-02-01
7 Ways to Reduce your 2008 IT Burden with Email Hosting: Begin a plan to reduce the IT costs and resources associated with managing your organization's email system. View this on-demand webinar to learn how USA.NET can help you solve seven costly and time consuming problems that will impact your organization soon, if they haven't already. Don't miss...; Tags: Information Technology, Messaging, USA.NET, E-mail, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software; Webcasts 2007-12-04
Security Best Practices: What to Look for in an Email Hosting Provider: Email is an essential business tool for organizations of all sizes. Yet it is also the easiest way for hackers, spammers, and other malicious threats to penetrate and disrupt business operations. End-to-end security is as vital to today's businesses as email itself. For small, medium and even large-sized companies looking...; Tags: Security, Hosting Company, USA.NET, E-mail, Online Communications; White papers 2007-11-06
Key Issues in Messaging Mobility: This Osterman Research white paper discusses key trends in the mobile messaging space and the variety of challenges that organizations must satisfy for their growing base of mobile messaging users. This paper also identifies the significant benefits connected with working with USA.NET for a full messaging solution that includes both...; Tags: Mobile, Messaging, USA.NET, Mobile Messaging, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2007-10-01

The Right Ingredients for Secure Email and Regulatory Compliance: Email is the dominant means of business communications, containing highly sensitive business and client information at every turn. Secure email is quickly evolving into a "best business practice" standard for confidential communications among organizations. In addition, a cadre of legal regulations including HIPPA, GLBA, FISM, FRCP and SOX impose a...; Tags: USA.NET, E-mail, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Online Communications, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2007-07-01
Encrypted Email Goes Mainstream: Through individual emails, meeting requests, or mobile communications, businesses are becoming accustomed to sending highly sensitive business or client information via email. Therefore, secure email is quickly evolving into a "best business practice" standard for confidential communications. Encrypted email is a technology that provides an enhanced layer of security to...; Tags: USA.NET, E-mail, Online Communications; White papers 2007-02-01
Quadrupling the Catch Rate of Image-Based Spam With Symantec Brightmail Helps Keep Inboxes Spam-Free at Leading Email Service Provider: USA.NET, a message service hosting provider, saw the quality of its message services threatened by a jump in image-based spam in late 2006. Symantec analysts developed new tools and techniques for an antispam solution that more than quadrupled the catch rate for image-based spam. This virtually eliminated it from USA.NET...; Tags: Symantec Corp., E-mail, USA.NET, Brightmail Inc., Security; Case studies

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Still ranting about interfaces: My argument, yesterday, that how an application is to be used is more determinative of the right toolset for building it than what the application does, embeds the assumption that the people we sell our software or development ideas to, either are end users or make decisions on the basis...; Tags: Corel WordPerfect, Standards, Word Processors, Quality, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Software, Business Operations, Office Suites, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-13
News to know: HP's to buy EDS; AMD; XP SP3; iPhone; Spam attacks: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services. Dennis Howlett: HP to take out EDS: does it make sense? AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Nokia Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Attack, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Podcasts, Data Centers, Homeland Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Call for military to operate botnet: Filed under bold proposals: Col. Charles W. Williamson III. staff judge advocate, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, writes in Armed Forces Journal that what the military really needs is an offensive bot-net. (via /. The world has abandoned a fortress mentality...; Tags: Cyberspace, America, Productivity, Robots, Intrusion Detection, Networking, Security, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-12
HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services: Updated: Hewlett-Packard is in talks to acquire Electronic Data Systems in a move that would reshape the technology services and outsourcing market. In a statement Monday, HP and EDS confirmed the talks, first reported by the Wall Street Journal: HP said: HP today...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Outsourcing, Data Centers, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
New version of Windows Presentation Foundation released: Microsoft released a new version of Windows Presentation Foundation, their next generation windows application UI framework. The new version will ship as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Tim Sneath has a very long and detailed post of the features but I'll try and break down the...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Microsoft issues first SP1 betas for VS 2008, .Net Framework 3.5: Microsoft is making available to testers a first beta release of Service Pack (SP) 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5. On May 12, Microsoft made available to any/all interested parties the first beta bits for both VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework...; Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Astoria, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Sprint's inferno: Churn baby churn: Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year. Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with...; Tags: Financial, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
News to know: Facebook; OpenOffice; Firefox; RIM: Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late May Joe McKendrick: Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day? Tom Foremski: Informatica is on the block say senior sources Michael Krigsman: Hosted...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, OpenOffice, Research In Motion Ltd., Mozilla Firefox, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows XP, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech company: Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech companywhat about other uses e.g. Space Shuttle, airplanes, etc?If this stuff is so good NASA should be buying it by the bucket to insulate their flight vehicles including the Back To The Moon Lander.What about Boeing using it for airplanes instead of whatever they...; Tags: Nansulate, R-Value, cleantech company, clean technology; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere: Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphereLots of profit......jobs and innovation in jeopardy? Too bad we didn't jeopardize Sub-Prime lending when we had a chance. Same kind of profit potential here for the telcos IMO.Drop ComcastThere are lots of ISP's out there.AT&T Yahoo comes to mind.Could Comcast's big usership...; Tags: INTERNET, Broadband Internet, Comcast Corp., Comcast-charged atmosphere, Net Neutrality, net neutrality bill; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere: The latest net neutrality bill, offered by Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), is a second try to treat neutrality as an antitrust issue, Ars Technica says. It's essentially the same bill that failed in 2006. The bill is intended to "promote competition,...; Tags: Bill, Comcast Corp., U.S. Congress, Net Neutrality, Internet, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Nokia kicks off strategy to focus more attention on the U.S. wireless market: I have been enjoying the recent posts on the Nokia Conversations site and a couple that I found particularly interesting was the post about Nokia's changes in the USA and the interview with the N96 and N78 creators. One is directly applicable to U.S. users of Nokia products, like myself,...; Tags: U.S., Strategy, Phone, Device, Nokia Corp., N96, Telecom & Utilities, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-09