Email & Instant Messaging

If Hilary Clinton turns to Office365 instead of her own personal email server she might have a better chance of recalling what was in deleted email, with new flexibility announced for the Microsoft cloud platform that extends beyond the 30 day permanent window.

Recently, Microsoft had to solve a common archive migration problem for a Global 300 pharmaceutical company. The company was using a legacy archive platform that wasn’t meeting its needs. So its email management team made a great decision to move the data from the legacy email archive to Microsoft Office 365.

The email address as we know it was born when Ray Tomlinson introduced the “@” sign in 1977, since which email has continually grown in popularity as a communication tool for work and pleasure – until last year. For the first time ever, 2014 recorded a sharp decrease in the number of emails sent around the world, from 204m per second in 2013 to 138.8m per second in 2014.

NetDocuments, the cloud-based document and email management service, has acquired Decisiv Email from Recommind. Recommind Australia is responsible for the product development of Decisiv Email, a commercial client and server software for enterprise collaborative email management leader in the legal industry.

Microsoft has acquired Acompli, a developer working on bringing the functionality of Outlook on the desktop PC to mobiles. Acompli reportedly makes it easier to deal with email attachments on your phone, and also puts contacts and calendar into the same app, and handles attachments from Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive.

Sydney-based mobile messaging specialist Soprano Design has announced a new platform to deliver IP-enabled features via SMS, SOPRANO GAMMA.

Red Earth Software has released Policy Patrol version 10, the latest version of its email security software for Microsoft Exchange Server. Policy Patrol 10 offers increased protection from email security risks with improved anti-phishing and integrated multi anti-malware scanning, along with an improved user interface and new dashboard.

The Outlook Web App used in Office365 is being enhanced to allow easier filesharing via OneDrive for Business, although many users will have to wait until November for the new features. When working in the Outlook Web App, users will be able to insert a link to a file on OneDrive for Business instead of attaching the file itself.

The quest to automate manual processes to improve organisational efficiency at the University of Queensland is one step further along the road with the implementation of an EzeScan solution to register student email into its HP TRIM EDRMS.

Titus has released an email and document security solution called TITUS Classification for Mobile

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