Sybase buys Mobile 365 for $425m
Sybase will acquire messaging vendor Mobile 365 for $425 million in cash, says Computer Partner.
The deal will allow Sybase to offer managed services that are hosted on Mobile 365's global network, said Marty Beard, senior VP of corporate development and marketing at Sybase.
It will also put Sybase in the business of carrying mobile messages among wireless carriers and handling billing for those messages, he said.
IM security concerns
A recent instant messaging (IM) tracking survey found that 93% of North American organisations use IM in some capacity, and 34% of corporate e-mail users use IM, reports Computer Weekly.
By 2009, nearly 100% of North American companies will have employees who use IM, the report says.
Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research, said that between 2004 and 2005 the number of viruses, worms and other malware associated with IM grew between 1 600% and 2 200%.
Fighting spam top priority
Fighting spam continues to be a top priority for businesses in 2006 despite the broad range of anti-spam products available today, reports SDA Asia magazine.
Quoting the Radicati Group's latest study, "E-mail and Collaboration Corporate Survey, 2006-2007", the report says e-mail archiving is also a top priority for businesses in 2006.
This is expected to be a lucrative market, since 39% of respondents indicated they have plans to deploy an e-mail archiving system in the near future, the report says. Some 83% of survey respondents are either in the process of upgrading, or plan to upgrade their messaging software within the next 18 months, it says.
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