Unified messaging revenue to double

Frost & Sullivan research indicates revenues in the unified messaging and communications market will experience a huge leap in the period between 2005 and 2012, says Zycko News.

Revenue will soar from the EUR613.3 million recorded in 2005 to a projected EUR1.54 billion six years from now, the firm predicts.

However, uptake has been stunted in some cases due to a lack of understanding about, and subsequently investment in, unified communications.

New research shows that secure IM adoption by employees could save the earth from 14.2 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, as they could work as efficiently while cutting down on long commutes, says Webitpr.com

Symon Blomfield, CEO of UK secure IM company Presence Networks, explains: "Simply by reducing travel by 96 miles per week, the average worker would save the planet from the effects of 4 257 pounds of CO2 a year."

This is the equivalent to the amount of carbon which can be neutralised by 207 fully grown trees annually, he says.

3 UK has been shortlisted by the GSM Association for its Window's Live Messenger service.

The GSM Awards are globally recognised as an independent verification for the mobile industry.

The panel is made up of independent judges comprising industry and subject matter experts, analysts, journalists and academics.

E-mail security and risk management company Messaging Architects has released M+Guardian.

M+Guardian is a policy-based e-mail firewall based on a modular e-mail risk management platform designed to mitigate against current and future risks of enterprise collaboration.

The software also combines predictive and reactive technologies with filtering engines that offer real-time in-line scanning of inbound e-mail, as well as flexible reputation filters applied to outbound e-mail to meet corporate policies and compliance requirements pertaining to electronic records.

The European Commission will finance the Mobile Autonomous Reactive Information System for Urgency Situations (Marius), a project that will allow emergency workers to send SMS via a helicopter equipped with a mini-mobile network, reports Rotorhub.

Marius is aimed at developing a pre-operational autonomous command post that can be deployed quickly to manage crises.

The project will involve the implementation of an airborne segment equipped with EO/IT sensor, GSM detection and location sensor SMS broadcast capability, a data link to the ground station and a radio system.