Jeff Burt

Enterprises worried about employee abuse of corporate e-mail have some new tools at their disposal. MicroData Software Inc. next week will release the newest version of its Cameo e-mail monitoring software. Among the new features in Version 2.0 is an internal, desk-to-desk capability that monitors intraorganizational e-mail. Version 2.0 also includes the Topsfield, Mass., firms […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to ship its first combination recordable DVD and CD drive for PCs starting this month. HPs dvd100i drive will retail for $599 and enable users to record up to 4.7GB of information per DVD or 700MB per CD. Recordable DVDs will retail for $15.99 each, said officials in Palo Alto, Calif. Recordable […]

Shipping Maxtor Corp. is shipping a 40GB external hard drive with USB 2.0 connectivity: the Personal Storage 3000LE. Compatibility Officials of the Milpitas, Calif., company said the connection is backward-compatible with and 40 times faster than the Universal Serial Bus 1.1 standard and operates at 5,400 rpm. Such capacity could hold 10,000 4-minute MP3 files, […]

In a variation on the traditional disaster recovery services industry, managed services provider InterOps Inc. recently added an as-needed management rollover and backup support service for Internet operations centers. The new Internet Management Continuity Service offers a cheaper, six-figure alternative to disaster recovery services that typically cost several million dollars, according to officials with the […]

Verisign Inc. last week announced a security service for Internet service providers and Web hosting companies targeted at small and medium-size businesses. The service brings SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) features to shared servers—functionality that normally is available only in higher-end, dedicated hosting configurations, said officials of the Mountain View, Calif., company. End users will receive […]

The latest version of Escalate Inc.s supply chain management suite includes enhancements aimed at easing problems associated with managing a large number of vendors. Escalate Supplier 2.5, which began shipping this month, provides real-time visibility into the status of any order while eliminating manual order processing. New in Version 2.5 is the capability to automate […]

Iona Technologies Inc. has released a tool that company executives said enables developers to create Web services that can run on either of the leading platforms: Microsoft Corp.s .Net and Sun Microsystems Inc.s J2EE. Version 1.2 of Ionas XMLBus, introduced at midmonth, supports .Net, Microsofts SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) Toolkit and Java 2 Enterprise […]

Questions answered Enterprises that need to find a better way of figuring out which of their Internet service providers is delivering the best performance or want to be sure that routing protocols are choosing the fastest path may now be able to get some answers. Better management In November, RouteScience Inc., a San Mateo, Calif., […]

PKI implementations come with hefty time and financial investments. A New York company said it has a way around them. CertCo Inc. last week released an electronic-signing product that is designed to perform all the functions of a full public-key infrastructure implementation without the attendant financial requirements. CertSigner is based on a community structure in […]

Oracle Corp. has a plan to make all its applications accessible via wireless devices. To that end, the Redwood Shores, Calif., company this month announced the release of its Mobile-Enabled e-Business Suite. For now, customers can satisfy their wireless needs by accessing such key business applications as field sales, field service and customer intelligence—part of […]