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reMail goes Open Source! What does it mean?

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March 5th, 2010
Viktor Petersson

A few weeks back it was announced that reMail had been acquired by Google. We were somewhat surprised by the announcement. What does Google plan to do with reMail? Was it a pure talent acquisition? (Gabor Cselle, the founder of reMail, is an ex-Googler.)

Today an even more surprising announcement was made: reMail is going open source! I’m still not sure what this means. Are Google open sourcing reMail because they don’t care for it (they just wanted Gabor back), or is it part of a bigger strategy? Perhaps Google is planning to embed the technology behind reMail in Android. If so, it might make sense for them to first open source the technology.

This announcement leaves me with a lot of questions. Hopefully we will see the reMail technology built into an upcoming version of Android. I’m all for open source, but I’m just confused about Google’s strategy.

I’ve attached a video demo of reMail after the jump.
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Atmail 6.1.3 is out. Now supports LDAP and Active Directory

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January 28th, 2010
Viktor Petersson

Atmail 6.1.3 was announced just a few hours ago. While you might wonder why we report so much about every release of Atmail. The reason is simple, Atmail is one of the most innovative email solutions on the market. Contrary to their larger competitors such as Exchange and Zimbra, Atmail a big bloatware that requires 4GB or RAM to handle 20 users. That is one of the main reason’s why I like Atmail.

As Atmail keeps adding new features, I really hope that they won’t fall in the bloatware-trap and add leave the light and minimalistic path they’re currently on.

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Pegasus Mail 4.52 is out

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January 26th, 2010
Viktor Petersson

Pegasus MailFor those who have been using email since the dawn of time, Pegasus Mail is a well known name. For those of you who started out reading your first email in Outlook, chances are you have no clue what Pegasus Mail is.

Before I dive into what the new release entails, let’s just give those of you who are not familiar with Pegasus Mail a quick introduction. The first release of Pegasus Mail was launched back in the ’90s and was initially developed for Novell NetWare (a cut-down version of Pegasus Mail called FirstMail came bundled NetWare). Later on, support for MS DOS and Macintosh, and even later, Windows was added (Wikipedia).

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Major new deal for LotusLive

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January 14th, 2010
Viktor Petersson

IBM LogoToday eWeek reported that Panasonic is switching 150,000 users away from Microsoft’s Exchange to IBM’s LotusLive.

The announcement came in a timely fashion, just as Lotusphere 2010 is about to open it’s doors. Coincidence? I think not. It sounds like a well planned marketing move.

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Gmail is now more secure.

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January 13th, 2010
Viktor Petersson

Yesterday Google made a pretty small announcement in regards to a big change (at least from my point-of-view).

The news is that they are going from non-SSL to SSL as the default option in Gmail. For those non-techies reading this, this means that instead of sending the traffic from Google’s servers to your local computer in an unencrypted form, which is vulnerable for other people to eavesdrop on your communication (eg. reading your emails as you are reading them), they are now encrypting the traffic. By doing this, it becomes fairly difficult for someone to eavesdrop on your communication (although not impossible).

For the security conscious people out there, this option have been available for quite some time (since 2008 to be precise), but it has not been enabled by default.

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It’s official: VMware+Zimbra=True

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January 12th, 2010
Viktor Petersson

It’s been rumored for quite some time, but now it’s finally official: VMware have acquired Zimbra from Yahoo.

I’m actually very excited over this, and I think it can turn out to be a great combination. Since Yahoo hasn’t paid much attention to Zimbra at all, I hope the new owners will. As I wrote back when the deal was still just a rumor, with VMware’s competence in virtualization and Zimbra’s collaboration software, this could turn out to be one heck of a virtual appliance.

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Finally two-way email communication with Facebook

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January 12th, 2010
Viktor Petersson

facebook-logoI know a lot of people are frustrated with Facebook’s lock-in when it comes to communication. Until today, all communication by email with Facebook was one-way. When someone post a message your wall or comment on a post, you receive an email notification (which can be configured).

That all changed today when Facebook announced you can reply to these notification messages and post a comment back.

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AtMail releases version 6.1.2 and ArchiveVault 1.3

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January 7th, 2010
Viktor Petersson

AtMail just posted two announcement on their blog. The first one is the release of AtMail version 6.1.2. The two most exciting changes in this release is the introduction of Subadmin dashboard, which allows users to get an overview of their account, as well as improved integration with ArchiveVault.

The second announcement was about ArchiveVault 1.3. However, details are few in the announcement. The only thing it states is that it includes ‘a user-interface overhaul, new Admin options, improved Lucene search index for data-mining, new API feature and integration with Atmail 6‘

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VMware to acquire Zimbra from Yahoo?

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January 5th, 2010
Viktor Petersson

It has been known for quite some time that Yahoo are trying to make bold changes internally. Products have been shut down (eg. Yahoo Live and Geocities) and it has been rumored that Zimbra has been up for sale for quite a few months by now.

If VMware ends up acquiring Zimbra it’s a very strange deal, but it might make sense. With VMware’s virtualization expertise, they might very well be able turn Zimbra into a powerful virtual appliance. That could work both sell it as a software appliance (just the virtual machine) as well as a hardware appliance (hardware). Combined with VMware’s virtualization product line, they can target everything from small business (VMware Server) to large enterprises (ESX). This could be a very serious threat to Microsoft Exchange.

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The Peek email device: Why?

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December 30th, 2009
Viktor Petersson

Peek LogoIf 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?

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