Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Relief may be in sight for corporate users who are struggling to manage overflowing e-mail in-boxes. A promising filtering technology called Sieve is gathering support among messaging software vendors, including Sun Microsystems Inc., Rockliffe, Critical Path Inc. and Sendmail Inc.

Prompted by last year's terrorist attacks, momentum is building on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. to expand the role of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in establishing IT security standards and best practices, and the prospect is raising concerns in some circles.

The Sendmail Calendar Server allows enterprise customers of Sendmail

As it seeks a major increase in its IT budget to US$52 billion next year, the U.S. President George Bush

After years of playing second fiddle to dot-com and telecom investments, enterprise software is taking centre stage among venture capitalists. The change is good news for network executives.

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The market for secure, business-grade instant messaging software is picking up steam, with several start-ups now offering packages that automatically encrypt real-time chat sessions between users. However, these packages do not yet offer secure communications with users of popular consumer-oriented IM systems from AOL Time Warner Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others.