eWeek brings this story from last week’s Gartner ITxpo in Las Vegas. During an overview presentation of the UCC market, Bern Elliot, Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst, made the claim that companies must invest in UCC tools in order to attract and retain top talent.
Just in case there has been any doubt, here is another example of how all electronic communications can be used in court. This eWeek article covers the recent subpoena issued by New York City, to obtain text-messaging records and recipient information related to protests during the Republican National Convention in July of 2004. The event was orchestrated through the now infamous TXTmob tool, which was created by Tad Hirsch, a doctorial candidate at MIT.
Coincidently, a couple of days after I had posted the blog entry about spammers now targeting cell phones, I received a couple of unsolicited text messages. I don’t really use texting, since I have a Blackberry and prefer email and IM instead. Consequently I don’t subscribe to any texting plan. I had previously made a mental note to check what anti-spam tools my cell carrier – Verizon – had available to control the inbound text message stream. Now was a good time to follow-up on that.
It was just a matter of time before spammers would try to exploit the fast growth of text- and email-enabled cell phones. The Washington Post picked up on the issue of text-message spam in this article earlier this week. While many of us are enjoying the benefits and convenience of BlackBerrys, iPhones and other SMS capable devices, scammers are already working hard on ways to get their unsolicited offers for questionable wares to our phones.
Although this has already been covered by a number of other blogs and this InfoWorld article, this is too big to ignore.
IBM’s Steve Mills (senior vice president of IBM’s software group) and Lotus VP Bruce Morse hosted a press conference earlier this week. At the event, they shared IBM’s strategy for Unified Communication and Collaboration (UC2).
As the readers of this blog already know, email has become business critical for most companies. That means even the slightest disruption or delay in email delivery or problems with employees’ access to their mailboxes have significant impact on worker productivity and a company’s bottom line.
Stefan Mehlhorn is the CEO of Permessa Corp. a Waltham, MA based company providing enterprise messaging management solutions and consulting services to many of the worlds largest corporations.
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