This column in the San Francisco Chronicle looks at a few tools to fight spam. The possible solutions discussed range from Outlook filtering to legislation.

Mi8 Corporation announced its new customer-premises based remote management offering. eWeek reports that the company added the option of installing a standardized configuration of Microsoft Exchange servers and supporting technologies at the customer site.

NewsFactor has this story about building the dream mobile device. The article mentions the most important features most users want to have on such a device. One of those features is the ability to access and read Outlook email.

MeetingMaker announced a new migration program at MacWorld last week. According to MacCentral, the new program lets you migrate to Meeting Maker 7.1 from the calendaring programs within Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Steltor Corporate Time, Teamsoft TeamAgenda, PowerOn Now-Up-To-Date, and others. The new Meeting Maker 7.1 encompasses a host of new features including Mac OS X client and server, Linux server, Web calendar publishing, LDAP and administrative APIs, SSL security and high performance Palm synchronization. Add-on capabilities support integration with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes, Pocket PC/Windows CE and RIM devices.

Pumatech announced a version of Intellisync software that helps manage Intellisync software for BlackBerry handhelds from one, centralized location. Intellisync enables users to synchronize calendars, contacts and tasks between their BlackBerry handhelds Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.

This column in the San Francisco Chronicle looks at a few tools to fight spam. The possible solutions discussed range from Outlook filtering to legislation.

BeVocal announced its Business Solutions Showcase for telecom carriers. One of the applications in the showcase, called Seven, provides real-time mobile data and voice access to enterprise applications such as Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes email, corporate directory, personal contacts, calendar, tasks and documents.

MeetingMaker announced a new migration program at MacWorld last week. According to MacCentral, the new program lets you migrate to Meeting Maker 7.1 from the calendaring programs within Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Steltor Corporate Time, Teamsoft TeamAgenda, PowerOn Now-Up-To-Date, and others. The new Meeting Maker 7.1 encompasses a host of new features including Mac OS X client and server, Linux server, Web calendar publishing, LDAP and administrative APIs, SSL security and high performance Palm synchronization. Add-on capabilities support integration with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes, Pocket PC/Windows CE and RIM devices.

Deersoft, Inc. announced general availability of SpamAssassin Pro for Microsoft Outlook. You may download the software — free of charge — for a 14-day trial, or choose to purchase SpamAssassin Pro for $19.95 before July 31, a $10.00 discount off the normal $29.95.

PKWARE announced PKZIP 5.0, a data compression software that uses the new extended .ZIP file format introduced by PKWARE to provide both certificate-based and traditional password-based encryption and authentication. Additionally, this latest version of PKWARE’s application incorporates strong encryption algorithms (up to 3 DES 168-bit encryption) to deliver an even greater level of security than has previously been available. PKZIP 5.0 also offers integration with Microsoft Outlook to seamlessly provide automatic compression, digital signing and encryption of files that are attachments to email messages.