Monthly Archives: September 2008

ScanSafe Wins CNET Networks Award For Security Product Of The Year 2008

It’s good to see ScanSafe getting this award after the falling out with MessageLabs a few years back … Well done ScanSafe.

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On ‘Cisco gets the XMPP message…’

An interesting article on the Jabber acquisition from Kurt Cagle on O’Reilly’s web site.

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Lots of news about Jabber Inc

The IT news wires have been running hot with news of CISCO’s intent to acquire Jabber Inc. Most commentators ‘get it’ some are asking why would you bother when there’s no money in IM, obviously these people haven’t been following … Continue reading

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Cisco acquiring Jabber Inc

Huge news in the IM space today with Cisco announcing it’s acquisition of Jabber Inc the main vendor of XMPP IM and presence technology. Cisco now have and email and EIM platform, with IronPort they have email security so I … Continue reading

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Antivirus sales to slow: Gartner

I tend to ignore Gartner, mainly because they’re always hyping something, often the same thing. Take IM for example, since Cleartext started out with IM in 1999 they’ve been saying there’s high growth in EIM over the horizon. I suppose … Continue reading

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Akonix sells out

Akonix sold out this week which leaves just FaceTime as the only significant independent IM security vendor, not sure if this is good news or bad for the enterprise IM market.

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Leopard still biting…

Well I’ve come to the conclusion, after trying to upgrade four Mac’s, two Intel, two PowerPC (newish not old ones) that the upgrade to Leopard wasn’t worth the money, or time I’ve spent on it. For the following reasons; 1) … Continue reading

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