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Jet-setting road warriors at The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. subsidiary Russell Investment Group often found themselves moving from taxi to airplane to taxi—wasting time that could have been spent taking care of business. Like many enterprises, Russells IT team struggled at first to justify the costs of arming its mobile workers with wireless access […]

While the eyes of most of the industry were focused on Microsoft Corp.s belated entry into the software-as-a-service world, the company quietly made another move that could prove to be just as important in coming years. Microsoft last week acquired Media-Streams.com AG, a small company based in Zurich, Switzerland, that develops business applications based on […]

America Online co-founder Steve Case said last week he is resigning from Time Warners board of directors. Case, who co-founded America Online in the mid-1980s, orchestrated AOLs $112 billion merger with Time Warner in January 2001. But as shareholder value plummeted in the wake of the merger, Case in 2003 stepped down from his role […]

Managed e-mail security services provider MessageLabs Ltd. is acquiring enterprise instant messaging vendor Omnipod Inc. to expand its security services beyond e-mail and Web filtering. In the short term, MessageLabs plans to offer Omnipods hosted IM service, Professional Online Desktop, as a separate service, but in the first quarter of next year the company will […]

Microsoft Corp. said today it has acquired Media-Streams.com AG, a 23-person company based in Zurich that develops business applications based on VOIP technology. Microsoft plans to incorporate Media-Streams technologies into its corporate IM platform, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server (LCS), and its Office productivity tools. Media-Streams technology is already integrated with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. […]

Managed e-mail security services provider MessageLabs Inc. is acquiring enterprise instant messaging vendor Omnipod Inc. to expand its offerings beyond e-mail and Web filtering services, said officials today. In the short term, MessageLabs plans to offer Omnipods managed hosted IM service, Professional Online Desktop, as a separate service, but in the first quarter of 2006 […]

Hoping to catch a ride on the software-as-a-service wave, America Online Inc. is working to integrate its popular instant messaging client with WebEx Communications Inc.s Web meeting tool and Microsoft Corp.s Outlook with the aim of offering a hosted, subscription-based service for businesses. The offering, in development at AOL and unofficially dubbed AIMPro, is slated […]

In the wake of Floridas devastating hurricane season last year, recreational boat retailer MarineMax Inc., based in Clearwater, Fla., turned to local systems integrator CompServ Inc. to implement a new disaster recovery system in time for this years storm season. With the help of CompServ and its business partner IBM, MarineMax has automated its disaster […]

America Online Inc. co-founder Steve Case said Monday he is resigning from Time Warner Inc.s board of directors. Case, who co-founded America Online in the mid-1980s, later orchestrated AOLs $112 billion merger with Time Warner in January 2001. But as shareholder value plummeted in the wake of the merger, Case, in 2003, stepped down from […]

Blogging technology provider Six Apart Ltd. is aiming to make it easier for users to add video to their blogs. Six Apart is integrating VideoEgg Inc.s Web-based video publishing technology, VideoEgg Publisher, into its TypePad hosted blogging service, said officials this week. VideoEgg Publisher, which launched in September at the DEMOfall show in Huntington Beach, […]

The havoc that Hurricane Katrina wreaked on the Gulf Coast this summer brought national attention to the myriad challenges of coordinating local, state, federal, nonprofit and private disaster recovery efforts. Florida, the state that has known more hurricanes on a first-name basis than all other states combined, is all too familiar with the challenges these […]

NEW YORK—Attracted by the prospect of speaking directly to their customers and appealing to the key people who influence them, corporate marketers are embracing the blogosphere and pressing for ways to leverage “social media” in the enterprise. At the second annual BlogOn conference here last week, a number of business representatives shared their early experiences […]