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
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 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
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
October 2, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
IT managers who are tired of hosting their own e-mail servers, but spooked by outages and glitches among Web mail services like Google’s, have a new alternative from IBM.
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Tags: calendar, contact management, e-mail, hosted, IBM, LotusLive iNotes, SaaS
September 8, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
IF YOU’RE READING THIS, THE ALL CAPS FONT MUST BE MAKING YOU PRETTY ANXIOUS, right? That was the conclusion of a New Zealand company that sacked an employee who wrote part of an e-mail to co-workers with the caps lock on.
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Tags: e-mail, fired, New Zealand, ProCare Health, Vicki Walker
September 2, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
The 146 million folks who depend on Google for their e-mail were sorely disappointed Tuesday afternoon when the service sputtered and went out for several hours.
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Tags: disruption, e-mail, gmail, Google, outage
August 31, 2009 by Sam Narisi
Here’s a new e-mail ruse you’ll want to warn users about.
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Tags: bank account, e-mail, IRS, scam
