Verizon unveils secure IM for business

Information Week reports Verizon Business has unveiled its hosted secure instant messaging (IM) service to address IM security issues among business and enterprise users.

Hosted Secure IM has been developed to help stop various cyber pestilences like worms, viruses and "spim" before they enter business networks.

Verizon Business cited a recent report by the Gartner Group, which predicted the enterprise IM market will have a compound annual growth rate of about 20% through 2009. The market research firm also predicted that 90% of business e-mail users would have IM capability controlled by their IT operations by 2010.

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Critical Path, a provider of messaging software and services, has launched two Memova messaging solutions for service providers, says WebITPR.

The "Universal Contacts" and "Digital Life" solutions enable carriers, ISPs and other service providers to enhance both the security and usability of their consumer messaging services, create virtual online communities and deliver new value-added services.

Universal Contacts allows consumers to create safe online communities and communicate more easily from any device or application. Digital Life enables consumers to easily exchange photos, videos, music and other multimedia content with members of their online community.

UNIX software provider SCO Group has announced an upgrade to its Me Inc Rich Mobility Services that allows subscribers to send branded audio messages and opinion polls to thousands of customers anywhere in seconds.

PRNewswire reports that Me Inc, hosted by The SCO Group, is an on-line subscription service that enables users of smart phones or Web browsers to create promotional audio and text messages and combine them with rich Web media on landing pages in SCO`s EdgeClick Park Web portal. Subscribers can then announce new messages and drive consumers to them through standard e-mail and text messaging.

Using the same facilities in Me Inc and EdgeClick Park, marketers can create and upload opinion and rating polls and instantly distribute them to consumers for near real-time response gathering and measurement.

ABC News Queensland reports the Australian Transport Workers` Union says a Brisbane waste collection company has used the new federal workplace laws to sack an employee via text message.

Union spokesman Hughie Williams says three workers have been told they are no longer required, including a woman dismissed by SMS.

Williams described the incident as: "Just unacceptable and it`s really bad manners. Fancy terminating someone`s services simply by sending an SMS in that manner, it`s a disgraceful situation for that to happen."