MS delivers Exchange 2010 pilot

Microsoft has made available a release candidate of Exchange Server 2010, the forthcoming version of its widely used e-mail server platform. The release follows the availability of a beta version earlier this year, says Computing.co.uk.

Available to download from the TechNetsite, Exchange 2010 RC is feature complete, according to Microsoft, and can co-exist with earlier versions such as Exchange 2007 and 2003, making it easier for customers to begin test deployments.

The company also said it will be possible to perform an in-place upgrade of pilot deployments once the final version is released, expected later this year.

Twitter will start earning some income this year. Co-founder Biz Stone said the company is in the first phase of rolling out commercial accounts that will entice business users to pay for premium services like detailed analytics, reports DigitalBeat.

After that, the company might move into building business-oriented application programming interfaces, creating a “commercial layer” over the social network.

“Twitter will still be free for everybody and we'll still tell them to go crazy with it,” said Stone in an interview. “But we've identified a selection of things that businesses say are helping to make them more profit.”

Verizon Communications has expanded its suite of encryption services aimed at providing small and medium enterprises with affordable protection for their data across multiple devices, including e-mail and documents, states eWeek.

Verizon said the newly added data encryption services would help prevent privacy leaks, unauthorised access and help keep documents private in case of theft or loss.

The service, Encrypted Docs, enables the user to encrypt files and folders and determine who can access, read and write to the file or folder, enforcing privacy policies.