The bMighty Blog -- Messaging

A Voice For Smaller Businesses

Posted by Naomi Grossman 09:14 AM ET | Jul 28, 2008

Running a smaller business is all about being flexible, available, and often trying to appear larger than you actually are. One of the ways to achieve that is with a speech-enabled auto-attendant: that slightly disembodied voice that can direct callers, make your calls and read e-mail, among other things. Those systems are usually expensive but Active Voice just came out with Active Voice SPEAK which is designed for small and midsize businesses -- in its ease of set up, use, and, most significantly, price.

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Hardware & Software | Internet/Web | Messaging | Networking & Communications

State Of Spam: Illinois Tops Badmail Target List

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:35 PM ET | Jul 17, 2008

A new study claims that Illinois receives more spam traffic than any other state in the union. But a close look at the data shows that the other 49 aren't doing all that well either (with one interesting exception.)

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Internet/Web | Messaging | Security | Technology/Telecom

Obama + Web 2.0 = A (Presumptive) Presidential Nomination

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:30 AM ET | Jul 8, 2008

The campaign of the presumptive democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, has made liberal use of social networking tools to garner support, raise campaign funds, and get their message out. So far it's working.

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Hardware & Software | Internet/Web | Messaging | Networking & Communications

Backing Up Your Key Messages

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:51 AM ET | Jul 2, 2008

Email has evolved from a productivity improvement system to a mission critical application in many organizations. Consequently, companies are starting to require the same level of backup and availability with it as with other applications, such as their ERP system.

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How to Loosen E-Mail's Grip: One Man's Odyssey

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:11 AM ET | Jul 1, 2008

E-mail has become one of the greatest time-sucking tools of nearly everyone's workday. Do you dare calculate how much time you spend every morning reading and responding to the myriad of messages that have flooded your inbox? Not to mention the incessant messages that pop up throughout the day. One man decided to fight back.

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Hardware & Software | Messaging | Networking & Communications

Mitel Retools Line Post Inter-Tel Acquisition

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 12:27 PM ET | Jun 30, 2008

Mitel, who has been quite successful in the small and medium sector, bolstered its IP PBX line. To ward off formidable competitors, the company added messaging, audio and web conferencing, and mobility applications and revamped its IP phones.

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Messaging | Technology/Telecom

Archiving Market Constricting as Size Gains Importance

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:31 AM ET | Jun 25, 2008

Messages, tracking them, collecting them, monitoring them, and archiving them may be the biggest challenge many IT managers face. Recently, a raft of products emerged to take on those different functions and now they are being rolled into integrated solutions.

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Messaging | Networking & Communications | Security

Watch Those Wikis: Small Public Posts Can Cause Big Business Problems

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:02 PM ET | Jun 24, 2008

Inside knowledge, much less insider knowledge can be a dangerous business thing. Just ask the wiki-poster who got fired for leaking early news of Tim Russert's death.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Management | Messaging | Networking & Communications | Security | Technology/Telecom

Carriers Poised to Deliver Unified Communications Solutions?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:52 AM ET | Jun 18, 2008

Two giants have partnered to make it simpler for carriers to deliver unified communications solutions. Consequently, small and medium businesses may soon find it easier to cost justify and deploy such products.

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Messaging | Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

Telecoms: Should Content Carriers Become Content Cops?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:08 AM ET | Jun 16, 2008

The thing about the so-called Information Superhighway, as it used to be so-called, was that once the telecom companies deployed the wire and fiber and wireless roads, they pretty much left businesses and consumers alone in their travels along them. That may be changing.

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Business & E-Business | Government | IT | Internet/Web | Messaging | Networking & Communications | Security | Technology/Telecom

PKWare's Latest SecureZIP Simplifies Encryption

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:02 AM ET | Jun 9, 2008

PKWare's latest evolution of its SecureZIP encryption and compression product adds digital certificates, simplifies key use, and provides easier integration with Microsoft Office, and does so at a price that should earn it a serious look from small and midsize businesses.

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | IT | Messaging | Networking & Communications | Security | Storage | Windows

Password Tips From Google Worth Passing Along

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:56 AM ET | Jun 6, 2008

Odds are that you -- and almost definitely some of your colleagues, friends and family -- have seen a list of good strong password-creation tips more recently than you've changed your passwords. And here's another list, this one from Google.

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Business & E-Business | IT | Messaging | Mobile | Networking & Communications | Security | Technology/Telecom

Alcatel-Lucent Makes a Major Push into SMB

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:56 AM ET | May 20, 2008

Many small and medium businesses would like to deploy unified communications solutions. The problem has been that piecing together one of these systems can be difficult, time consuming, and expensive. Alcatel-Lucent is the latest vendor trying to change that.

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Messaging | Mobile | Networking & Communications

Symantec Spam Report: April Was The Cruelest Month

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:42 AM ET | May 15, 2008

Symantec's monthly Spam Report is out, just in time to remind us of what our queues and filters and networks all know -- spam is up and so, most likely is the blood pressure of everyone who has an e-mail account.

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Business & E-Business | IT | Internet/Web | Messaging | Networking & Communications | Security | bMighty

McAfee Spam Experiment Results: Spam Is Bad And There's Lots Of It

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:47 AM ET | May 14, 2008

All spam all the time -- that's what volunteers for McAfee's Global S.P.A.M (Spammed. Persistently. All. Month.) experiment looked for, and that's what they got when they turned in their brand-new, completely unprotected machines and opened themselves to the deluge.

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International | Internet/Web | Messaging | Security | Technology/Telecom | bMighty

Email Overload Drains Corporate Productivity

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:00 AM ET | May 12, 2008

How much time do your employees spend sifting through and responding to their email messages? Do you think they know how to perform that task well? What are some of the prime missteps that users often make?

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Backscatter Spam Spreading, Bouncemail Battle Heats Up

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:56 AM ET | May 9, 2008

Have you been backscatter or bounceback spammed yet? No? Be patient -- if your e-mail address has ever been published on the Web, the odds may be against you.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Messaging | Security

Web 2.0 Expo: How To Build A Wiki That Doesn't Suck

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:14 PM ET | Apr 26, 2008

"The Web is littered with dead wikis," admits SocialText CEO Eugene Lee. Here's how to make sure your wiki doesn't add to the junkpile.

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HR | IT | Internet/Web | Management | Messaging | Professional/Creative Services | Sales/Marketing

Web 2.0 Expo: Practice Safe Messaging

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:35 PM ET | Apr 26, 2008

How many times have you wished you could delete an email or instant message after you've sent it? BigString last week announced self-destructing IM to go along with its email protection products.

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McAfee Volunteers Go For All The Spam They Can Stand (And Then Some!)

Posted by Keith Ferrell 05:03 PM ET | Mar 31, 2008

Y'know those e-mails and offers and come-ons you're never never supposed to open or reply to? Well, McAfee is putting fifty, count 'em, fifty volunteers from across the world on an all-the-spam-you-can-answer diet. You get it, you answer it; you see it you click it -- every one of them for a month Seriously.

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Business & E-Business | International | Messaging | Security

Trend Micro Enters Email Archiving Market

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 10:09 AM ET | Mar 11, 2008

How many email messages were in your In Box this morning? 10? 20? 50? 100? 150? As the number continues to grow, enterprises are finding it more and more difficult to manage them effectively.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Messaging

Missing White House E-Mail -- Politics Or Bad Tech Policy?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:07 PM ET | Mar 5, 2008

The White House's assertion that as many as 5 million e-mails have gone missing has raised a lot of political hackles on both sides of the aisle and throughout the pundit-sphere over the last couple of years. Far less attention has been paid to a far more serious (and less politically secular) question: just what is the tech infrastructure underlying the White House's electronic communications?

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Government | IT | Messaging | Networking & Communications | Security | Storage

Siemens Launches OpenScape Unified Communications Server Software

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:29 PM ET | Mar 3, 2008

Siemens hopes to jumpstart acceptance of Unified Communications with a vendor-agnostic open-standards-based OpenScape UC server software platform.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 250-999 | IT | Messaging | Networking & Communications

Cell Phone Device Detects Deleted Data

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:14 PM ET | Feb 26, 2008

Cell phone users whose phones use SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) strips need to know that a new device that reads those strips can also retrieve deleted text messages. It's called, appropriately enough, Cell Phone Spy.

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Hardware & Software | Messaging | Mobile | Security | Technology/Telecom

DEMO 08 Showcases Small Business Innovations

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:01 AM ET | Jan 28, 2008

Look for a handful of innovative small-business-oriented product introductions at this weekýs Demo08 conference in the California desert. Just donýt count on the products arriving on time or truly changing the way your company does business.

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