Even the largest, most innovative NHS hospitals can take weeks just to perform a simple e-mail retrieval process, it emerged yesterday, as the University Hospital Birmingham (UHB) announced an implementation of an enterprise archiving system.
The widely reported talks between trading platform Plus Markets and Project Turquoise concerning a take over by the Turquoise came to an end last week after the companies failed to reach agreement.
At first glance, an independent survey commissioned by Mimecast appears to shoot itself in the foot. The firm, which sells web-based e-mail, found that 63% of the UK's IT managers have more than one e-mail system within their company - presumably one for work and the other for seeing if they have received any new Hatebook enemy requests or responses to their CVs.
Motorway service chain Welcome Break has relieved the pressure of unwanted e-mail on its IT infrastructure, improved security, and increased staff productivity by implementing a managed e-mail service.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) is using data mining technology to identify the social networks and "trade routes" used by fraudsters who are costing the UK an estimated £3.5bn a year.