E-mail records have played an important role in many of the corporate governance scandals of recent years, from the collapse of Enron to the earlier government investigations surrounding Microsoft. In the wake of such corporate governance issues, the U.S. has a host of new and existing regulations
Symantec Corp. is seeking a ruling from a California court to support its right to detect and identify as adware certain program files from New York-based Hotbar.com Inc.
Bell Mobility Inc. is looking to make remote tracking more widely available to smaller and mid-sized Canadian businesses with the launch of GoTrax.. GoTrax is a handset-based solution that works through GPS-enabled Bell cellular phones and Rim BlackBerry handheld devices. GoTrax allows a small business to track mobile employees, delivery or service persons both outside of building and within buildings using Assisted GPS.
MSN Canada hopes to help Canadian ISPs and e-mail service providers stop their network from being used to deliver spam e-mails with the launch of the MSN Postmaster Web site. MSN Postmaster, available in both French and English, will provide information and tools that address a variety of issues around spam, as well as information on ways to fight junk e-mail and reporting and tracking spam.
In dealing with spam, that flood of unwanted and unsolicited e-mail that can sometimes clog in-boxes, there are only three basic ways of tackling the problem, even though one is unrealistic. The unrealistic one is not having e-mail at all; no e-mail address, no spam. Since that is not an option, the two other options are to tackle the problem in-house or to find an outsourced anti-spam solution. Both are excellent means of controlling spam but the decision to go with one or the other will be based on considerations that have little to do with the spam e-mails themselves.