June 22, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
As the investigation into the debacle at Lehman Brothers begins to unfold, it’s the job of court-appointed lawyers to review 34 million pages of documents — many of them e-mails among Lehman employees.
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Tags: bank examiner, e-discovery, e-mail, Lehman Brothers, search, terms
April 6, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Most of us work for businesses that are increasingly cost-conscious — some might even say penny pinching. So it’s not surprising to learn about cutbacks on all sorts of things — including ink.
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Tags: Arial, cartridges, Century Gothic, ink, less, money, printer, save, University of Wisconsin Green Bay
March 26, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The most common type of malicious e-mail attachment is the also the most common file you might find clinging to an electronic message: the ordinary XLS or DOC file. But the most dangerous kind of attachment isn’t either of those.
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Tags: e-mail, file types, malware, Message Labs report, Symantec
March 19, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Seems like e-mail may be going the way of the dinosaur and the Yugo. A new study from tech consultants Accenture warns that “millenials” are shunning electronic mail in favor of more instant and personal forms of communication.
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Tags: Accenture, e-mail, Millenials, study, use
December 28, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Several online sites are publishing the codes airline passengers can use to get free in-flight WiFi, but with the recent terrorist attempt on Delta’s Amsterdam to Detroit flight, it could be tough to actually use them.
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Tags: Air Canada, airlines, Airtran, American Airlines, codes, Delta, free, inflight, United, Virgin America, WiFi
December 7, 2009 by Sam Narisi
Most employers keep an eye on employees’ Internet and e-mail activity. But doing it the wrong way can get the company hit with an invasion of privacy claim.
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Tags: e-mail, law, monitoring, privacy
November 3, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
In what looks like an effort to compete with Google Apps, the marketing geniuses at Microsoft are slashing prices for their online offerings. The question: Are they worth the price now?
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Tags: applications, e-mail, Google, Microsoft, office productivity suites, online
November 2, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
First the General Accountability Office sounded the alarm about a flu pandemic and its potential to cripple the Internet, and now one of the IT industry’s preeminent analyst groups is adding its voice to the alarm.
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Tags: flu, Gartner, General Accountability Office, Pandemic, swine flu, telecommuting, work at home
October 29, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
When one of the nation’s top cops says he’s not banking online anymore, maybe the rest of us should pay attention.
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Tags: banks, director, FBI, online banking, phishing, Robert Mueller, scam
October 19, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
The “alert” industry is in high gear these days and most of us are getting them pretty much 24/7 via our cell phones, laptops, netbooks or other electronics.
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Tags: alert, customized, e-mail, Mailtones
