eWeek has this article which argues that technical innovation is needed to prevent spam, not email scalability or functionality.

Sperry Software announced upgrades to three of its Outlook add-ons. Auto Print has been upgraded to automatically print just the email, just the attachments, or both. Add Email Address, an add-on that automatically adds people you reply to into your Contacts folder, has been updated to include categories as the contacts are created. Finally, Hide Fax Numbers has been upgraded to automatically hide the fax numbers of contacts as the contacts are created.

AdTrack Corporation announced plans today to integrate Microsoft Outlook into their latest product, Opportunity Manager, which, along with their product, SmartLead2, forms a sales force automation ( SFA ) and lead management tool. The integration will allow messages sent from Outlook to be attached to appropriate opportunities, contacts, or accounts within the Web-based tool.

Clickatell has released Mobimail, a Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express SMS plug-in.

SiteScape announced Forum eMeeting, a real-time, Web conferencing add-on to SiteScape Enterprise Forum 7.0. Users can link online meetings to threaded discussions entries, documents, tasks, workflows, and Forum and Microsoft Outlook calendars.

FranklinCovey and Agilix Labs have announced plans for the release and launch of the FranklinCovey TabletPlanner 2.0, a pen and digital ink-enabled planning and productivity application for the Microsoft Windows-powered Tablet PC. It features the ability to synchronize with Microsoft Outlook, including tasks, appointment, notes and contacts.

iLumin Software Services announced the availability of its newest Secure Messaging product, Digital Exchange S/MIME for Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA). iLumin’s Digital Exchange S/MIME utilizes the S/MIME protocol and format to protect and secure email communications produced by and accessed through Microsoft OWA.

Samsung introduced the SPH-i500, a fully integrated Palm-Powered phone. The i500 is packaged with a CD-ROM containing Palm desktop software, PocketMirror conduit software for Microsoft Outlook, Palm Game Pack and phone off images.

eWeek has this article on the first public beta release of the next version of Microsoft Exchange. eWeek reports that Microsoft Exchange Titanium Beta 2 shows incremental improvements over Exchange 2000.

Anti-virus vendors are warning of a new worm in tribute to teen singer Avril Lavigne. Internet Week reports that the virus, known as Avril or Livra opens Microsoft Internet Explorer on the singer’s Web site on the 7th, 11th and 24th of the month, and allows it to forward itself to all email addresses in Outlook regardless of whether the email attachment is opened.