John S. McCright

Corporate training has come a long way from the one-room schoolhouse where a single teacher lectured to a handful of students. Federal agencies, in particular, face daunting challenges keeping vast numbers of employees spread across many time zones up-to-date on the latest skills. Agencies in the State Department, the Agriculture Department and the U.S. Army […]

IM-Age Inc. and PalTalk Inc. are each readying software that adds new instant messaging capabilities for enterprises. Startup IM-Age this week will introduce the company as well as its first product, a security add-on for commercial IM platforms, called IM-Age for Desktops. The software provides encryption, authentication, alerting and logging of instant messages for AOL-Time […]

Groove Networks Inc. this fall will make available a new tool set to connect its peer-to-peer collaboration platform with Microsoft Corp.s SharePoint Team Services collaboration software. The SharePoint Team Services/Groove Workspace integration kit will enable team members in different companies to share files and discussion threads and manage projects while pulling data from a SharePoint […]

Second-quarter financial reports from CRM software developers, including leaders such as Siebel Systems Inc., E.piphany Inc. and Kana Software Inc., have been almost universally bad. But users of customer relationship management software said they expect developers to spring back from financial setbacks with enhanced solutions that bring a quicker return on investment. Siebel, of San […]

A new service and software from MessageLabs Ltd. and Sunbelt Software Inc., respectively, look to stem the rising tide of unsolicited bulk e-mail. (See amount of spam received per user in the United States.) MessageLabs is taking the tricks it learned scanning e-mail for viruses and putting it to use scanning e-mail for the unwanted […]

Neos Corp. today announced plans to launch what it says will be the first commercial deployment of native Ethernet over a long-haul optical network. The London-based network services company said it will use Nortel Networks Optera Long Haul 1600 Optical Line System to provide up to eight Gigabit Ethernet services per wavelength in a DWDM […]

Groove Networks Inc. this fall will make available a new tool set to connect its peer-to-peer collaboration platform with Microsoft Corp.s SharePoint Team Services collaboration software. The SharePoint Team Services/Groove Workspace integration kit, announced Monday, will enable team members in different companies to share files and discussions threads and manage projects while pulling data from […]

PKWare Inc, the inventor of the .zip file format, is adding new security features to its compression technology. This week the company made available Version 5.0 of its PKZip data compression software, which also enables users to assign a password for authentication or a digital certificate for encryption. It supports x.509 version 3 digital certificates […]

Tandberg Asa, Pixion Inc. and a host of other developers are rolling out new and enhanced multimedia collaboration tools that officials from these companies said will improve the quality of virtual meetings while helping enterprises keep down travel costs and improve teamwork. Tandberg this month plans to introduce ACE (Architecture for the Collaborative-Communications Enterprise), a […]

Interface Software Inc. looks to strengthen the web of relationships within professional services companies with an upgrade to its InterAction customer relationship management software that will roll out next month. InterAction 5 works in a similar way as knowledge management systems in that it unobtrusively collects information from employees of a company, matches data about […]