Email & Instant Messaging

NewsGator has released a native social iPhone client  SharePoint as well as a microblogging suite. The iPhone client, and a companion client for the soon-to-be-released iPad, provide direct access to enterprise social computing environments without the need for a browser.

The Australian Competition and Consumer has blamed Internet scams for defrauding Australians of almost $70 million in 2009.

EMC is positioning its SourceOne email archiving solutions as a stepping stone to Exchange 2010.

OnePlaceMail is broadening its horiozons, with release 3.1 of the Outlook/Sharepoint integration suite extending its reach to Word/Excel and PowerPoint.

Autonomy is offering organisations the choice of on-site, cloud or appliance-based solutions for email archiving with a new offering based on the company's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) Server.

Industry Web site Travel Blackboard has reported that Qantas is migrating from its decades-long commitment to Lotus Notes in favour of Microsoft Exchange.

Notes users be read for a paradigm shift. Synaptris has announced the Beta availability of FewClix, an email productivity add-on for Lotus Notes that claims to "completely change" the way you communicate.

Which is the better enterprise email platform - Notes or Exchange? Enough organisations are seeing reasons to switch sides to create a thriving market for tools to assist with migration in both directions.

A survey into employee behaviour commissioned by Axway found that 82 percent of employees use their personal email accounts to send large work-related files when an email attachment exceeds the size limit imposed by IT.

 A new email system will be rolled out to more than 7000 State Emergency Service volunteers over the next two months in a technology upgrade worth $A2 million a year.

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