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• This blog is moving... me too!

  This blog is moving to http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/ Read More... Posted 12 August 2005 17:30 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Microsoft, Industry News, Cool Stuff/Geeky, Tips and tricks, SharePoint, ISA Server, Windows Platform, Macintosh, ISP, SQL Server, Networking, IIS, Office Products, Open Source/Low Cost Software, Security, Exchange and Outlook/Outlook Express, Mobility, Systems Management, Virtualisation, Messaging, *nix, Integration, Web Browsers, Apache, Web Development, Inane Waffle

• Microsoft acquires FrontBridge

  Back in March, I wrote about some new e-mail message continuity services from FrontBridge . Well, according to a press release just received from Microsoft, FrontBridge is about to become Microsoft's latest acquisition as it steps up its systems management Read More... Posted 20 July 2005 21:46 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Industry News, Messaging

• New messaging and collaboration tools from Microsoft

  I'm yet to be convinced of the business benefits of instant messaging (IM). At Conchango , we don't prohibit IM - in fact it is encouraged - I use Microsoft's MSN Messenger service , as do many of my colleagues. I suspect the reason we that we haven't Read More... Posted 23 March 2005 13:01 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Messaging

• New e-mail message continuity services

  I've just read about a new message continuity service from FrontBridge , designed to provide always on e-mail in today's environment where e-mail outage is seen as a major business continuity issue. Complementing the other e-mail managed services offered Read More... Posted 18 March 2005 13:03 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Messaging

• The new face of spam

  We are all used to spam arriving in our e-mail inboxes, but now the problem is spreading to other communications methods. Research by Wireless Services Corporation shows almost half of the mobile phone text messages received in the US are spam, compared Read More... Posted 18 March 2005 12:54 by mark.wilson | 2 Comments Filed under: Industry News, Security, Messaging

• The email dash

  Last week, I wrote a post about technology's role in the demise of the English language and I was interested to read about the "correct" spelling of e-mail in this week's IT Week . It seems that by popular usage today, email is 10 times more common than Read More... Posted 18 February 2005 10:50 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Messaging

• Sending SMS messages from within Outlook

  A couple of months back, my colleague James Simmonds wrote about a free Microsoft Office SMS Add-in (MOSA) which allows the sending (but not receipt) of text messages from within the Outlook 2003 client (in this context, SMS is Short Message Service - Read More... Posted 08 February 2005 18:14 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Office Products, Exchange and Outlook/Outlook Express, Mobility, Messaging