Half of the 100 UK firms surveyed by Fast Corporate Services never review or update their email usage policies. This leaves company directors wide open to charges of IP infringement and defamation or confidentiality breaches.
Yahoo and Microsoft have finally made their instant messaging (IM) services work together, to provide users with a more widespread instant communications solution.
E-mail, telephony, audio, video and web conferencing, instant messaging and collaboration will all be combined in Office 2007 and other forthcoming Microsoft products.