Are text messages your property?

Last week, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an employer does not have the right to view employees' text messages without a warrant, says Network World.

The ruling is based primarily on who pays for the storage of the content. For e-mail stored on company's servers, US law is quite clear that employers own the content because they pay for the storage.

The court, however, does not view text messaging in the same way: because employers do not pay for the storage, but instead pay only for the service itself, employers do not have the same legal access to this content.

According to PRWeb, Messaging Architects has made its M+NetMail e-mail solution available to educational institutions worldwide as a free licensed solution.

Institutions can now provide students with 'e-mail for life' and maintain relations with graduates without the need for costly hardware to support growing e-mail volume and without introducing security or compliance risks.

Students, on the other hand, benefit from a fast and reliable e-mail system that they can use to keep in touch with classmates and teachers long after they have graduated.

Hyatt Hotel & Resorts selected NaviSite to oversee its managed messaging and collaborative infrastructure services because of what that company calls its "deep expertise" in managed messaging and collaboration needs, says TMCnet.

Under the contract, NaviSite officials say, the company will upgrade and streamline Hyatt's messaging systems for Group Wise and Lotus Domino.

Cliff Tamplin, the vice-president of IT for Hyatt, a company that operates more than 700 resorts and hotels in 45 countries, said strong management of the technologies is key to operations and growth.