If you have never heard about it, the Peek is very a simple device dedicated to one thing: email. It’s roughly the size of your average smartphone and comes with a color screen and a qwerty keyboard. That’s it. No fancy features, just basic email access in your pocket.
The Peek comes in two different versions: Peek Pronto and Peek Classic. The Pronto is priced at $59.95, and the Classic at $19.95. However, the phone is not very useful without a plan. The plans starts at (and you know what that really means…) $14.95 per month. For that price, you get unlimited email access nation wide (U.S.) from your Peek.
The problem is this: it doesn’t even beat your iPhone/BlackBerry on the one thing it was created for, namely email. This brings me to the big question: why would you ever get a Peek?
Email has been around for a few decades and in the last decade it hasn’t changed very much from its original structure. The nature of email is that it’s a person-to-person communication, which serves most users just fine, except when trying to communicate between a group. Email messages pile up and it becomes difficult to figure out who communicated what message and when. In that case what you really need is more akin to a digital bulletin board or, as the tech industry has begun to call it within the last few years, a collaborative workspace.
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On the list of offenses that can be committed via email, many of us are guilty of petty crimes. Whether sending a hasty email to the “wrong Bob”, accidentally replying to the entire department when you meant to send a heads-up to a co-worker, attaching the wrong document to a message, or perhaps mistakenly forwarding a message that contains past messages you’d rather the recipient hadn’t seen, most of the time an email gaffe ends up a non-issue or blows over pretty quietly. After all, to err is human.
Horde Groupware is probably not the first collaboration software that comes to mind when thinking about deploying a new system. Perhaps it should. Contrary to most of the popular collaboration software on the market such as Open-Xchange, Scalix and Zimbra, the guys behind Horde understands how to write efficient code and use appropriate tools (no Java, just plain PHP). 
It’s been a busy week. As a result, I haven’t been able to cover all the news that I would have liked to. Because of this, I thought it would be a good idea to write a combined post that outlines the news from this week that I failed to cover. 
I’m surprised how long time it took for Google to get their acts together and 
Just a few minutes ago, Hushmail 
This is pretty amazing. It must take some seriously incompetent IT people to lose 22 million emails (or perhaps an organized cover-up). But now we at least know that it’s possible.