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Jul 8, Daily Compliancce & Messaging News

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Compliance

Lumigent Builds AppGRC Momentum as Demand Grows for Automated Compliance and Audit Software Company Continues to Draw Deltek Costpoint and PeopleSoft Financials Customers Seeking to Reduce the Cost of Auditing and Compliance Reporting
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Messaging & Collaboration

Retail Company Uses Exchange Reporting Software to Optimize Sales Teams' Performance
América Móvil and Nokia to bring mobile email services to customers in Latin America Leading regional collaboration adds email to music and maps for the ultimate mobile multimedia experience
Azaleos Blends On-Premise and Cloud E-Mail Services Hybrid Offering Allows Customers to Combine Remotely Managed Exchange with Microsoft Exchange Online
eSoft Re-Introduces DNS Server SoftPak: Back by Popular Demand DNS Server SoftPak enables ThreatWall and InstaGate to act as DNS server; other product updates also announced
IncrediMail Releases HiYo for Yahoo!
M1 opens up Nokia Messaging to more mobile users at lower cost
VerticalResponse, Inc. and BigContacts Partner to Provide Integrated CRM & Email Marketing Services to Small Businesses VerticalResponse Now Supports CRM Efforts from the Micro Businesses through Small Enterprise with Email Marketing, Surveys and Direct Mail
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Blog Item(s) & Announcements

Nice BlackBerry Synching with MailSite AstraSync

AstraSync is a nice way to synchronize BlackBerries with Exchange:

Synchronizes email, calendar, contact information.
Synchronizes over the air using Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol.
No need for the additional cost and complexity of BES servers.
No need for the RIM BlackBerry Desktop Manager.
Consumers synching with a POP/IMAP mailbox don't need the BlackBerry Internet Service.
In addition to Exchange Server, works with MailSite Fusion, CommuniGate Pro, Zimbra, Scalix, FirstClass, and Kerio MailServer.
No Outlook plugins required.
Software download to BlackBerry required.
$49/user/year; volume discounts apply.

... David Ferris

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Upcoming Webcasts

Veritas Acquires KVS: In Retrospect
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
8:30 a.m. Pacific, 11:30 a.m. Eastern, 4:30 p.m. U.K., 5:30 p.m. CET. One hour.

In September 2004, Veritas Software purchased KVS for its email archiving product, Enterprise Vault. Veritas merged with Symantec, and thus the product is now Symantec's Enterprise Vault, the market-leading archiving software. In this webcast, we discuss the Veritas/KVS acquisition with key individuals involved. Topics include KVS's history, KVS's motivations for being acquired, Veritas' motivations for the acquisition, how the negotiations took place, the terms of the transaction, what went well, what was more difficult than anticipated, and lessons learned.

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