Email & Instant Messaging

A judge has ruled that BP is not permitted access to 21 confidential US government documents.

Litéra claims its newly launched Metadacte 2.0 product will allow companies to more easily prevent metadata leaks, especially from mobile devices.

Just one in three emails within business inboxes hold real, immediate value, according to research released by Mimecast, the supplier of cloud-based email archiving, security and continuity. Only 25 percent of email is considered essential for work purposes with an additional 14 percent categorised as being of 'critical importance'.

A survey of social media usage at NSW state and local government agencies has found record-keeping practises are not keeping pace with uptake of the Web 2.0 tools.

Workshare, a provider of document collaboration software, has announced a range of enhancements to its server-based metadata cleaning solution to protect confidential information from being inadvertently shared by mobile and webmail users.

Open Text is acquiring a cloud-based electronic messaging platform with the $US310 million purchase of US company EasyLink Services International Corporation

C2C has released version 2.2 of its PST Enterprise software tool to manage the elimination and migration of Microsoft Exchange PST data. It has been enhanced with additional PST file move and copy flexibility and end-user self service.

Email archiving and security company Mimecast is extending its mobile continuity services to Windows Phone and Android.

An alliance between Ricoh and Australian software developer BNS Group has developed a solution that allows Government departments to send unclassified faxes from multi-function devices (MFDs).

Tasks take a third longer to complete when staff are interrupted by email, new research from Loughborough University in England has found.

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