Tiny open-source company tackles e-mail exchange
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InfoWorld - A tiny provider of open-source e-mail exchange software is using a disruptive pricing model to compete against Microsoft&#160;and other large providers of proprietary e-mail service technology.
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New software from Ribbit could make it easier to stay in touch.
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Webmail.us is announcing improvements to its service next week and will migrate its core e-mail platform from Microsoft Windows to an open-source platform.
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Big brother is moving into the e-mail business. But could it be a good thing?
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Company plans to begin shipping in February its Open Enterprise Server, which combines open source and commercial networking platforms.
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Open-source spam blocker gets legal makeover with switch to Apache license. Oh, and tech upgrades.
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IBM has created a free semantic e-mail search engine aimed at users of the company&#39;s Lotus Notes software and Microsoft Outlook.The engine, called IOPES (IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search), allows users to search their mail based on concepts, such as dates and phone numbers, according to IBM. It also allows searchers to define their own concepts.Once the software is installed, it indexes and analyzes the user&#39;s e-mail store. Searches are conducted through a browser interface that delivers results through a stripped-down, Google-like interface.Users can enter simple keyword-based queries or ones using basic natural language constructions. For example, to find e-mails from a friend named Mark Smith, you could simply enter &quot;from Mark Smith.&quot;But to find only the e-mails Smith sent in a certain month, a query might be constructed as &quot;Mark from January 2007.&quot; You could find his phone number by typing &quot;Smith&#39;s phone number.&quot;The results don&#39;t show a list of e-mail headers or display the messages in full. Instead, the software extracts the passage it believes contains the right answer, and highlights what it deems to be the specific information requested, such as a phone number.Users can also search for attachments with search results providing direct links to the documents in question.E-mail is a good target for developing a semantic search engine because users frequently repeat certain phrasings and words and repeatedly exchange the same type of information. &quot;There is a fairly large number of things that are so e-mail specific,&quot; said Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, the project&#39;s technical lead.Researchers in a number of IBM labs worked on the project for the past year and a half, according to Vaithyanathan. The product has been quietly available on the company&#39;s alphaWorks site for a couple of months, but only now is IBM attempting to drive widespread adoption, according to a spokeswoman.&quot;To be able to solve all these problems in some meaningful way, we want some feedback,&quot; Vaithyanathan said.IBM also released the tool internally to its employees and said it has received mostly positive responses.
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The open source Mozilla Foundation has released Thunderbird 1.0, an e-mail client, as a follow-up to last month's much-discussed debut of the group's Firefox 1.0 browser.
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There's a new way to send large movie, music and other files without worrying about whether the e-mail systems can handle large attachments.
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Alternative e-mail client will compete with Outlook Express and Eudora.
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Its e-mail program will trade data with social-networking sites.
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Blog: The new push e-mail software makes it easier to organize stuffed inboxes and adds security features that will make the IT guys happier.
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Business intelligence software vendor Actuate is teaming up with the open-source movement in an effort to give its applications more exposure in the marketplace.
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You Software, a small Oregon based company, released a set of add-on tools for Microsoft Outlook, an e-mail client, on Wednesday.
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Editor&#39;s Summary: The Mozilla Foundation has followed up on the recent success of its Firefox browser with a new open source e-mail client.
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Social networking site purchases tiny startup that had been developing software it bills as a Web-based operating system.
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Mobile e-mail device for business travelers extending its reach.