Cloudy with a strong chance of windfalls

Steve Ballmer’s quote – “for the cloud, we’re all in”; spoken in March 2010 – rapidly became IT folklore and was a clear recognition from Microsoft that the shift from client server to cloud computing was an irresistible force, and that the company needed to get...

IS, Synaq deliver mail in the cloud

Internet Solutions (IS) and Synaq have launched a low cost, integrated, cloud mail and archive service. This first locally hosted secure messaging collaboration suite offers e-mail functionality, collaboration and archiving on a single platform. “As South African...

Outlook.com ready for release

Microsoft has announced that the e-mail service Outlook.com is ready for prime time. Since the release of Outlook.com last year as a preview, millions of people have already actively started using it, making it the world’s fastest growing e-mail service, going from...

Record lows for spam traffic

The share of spam in e-mail traffic decreased steadily throughout 2012 to hit a five-year low. According to Kaspersky Lab data, the average for the year stood at 72,1% – 8,2 percentage points less than in 2011. Such a prolonged and substantial decrease in spam...