Wireless
Consilient pushes e-mail to mobile phones using single application
Consilient announced a free version of their mobile e-mail application, Consilient Push at www.consilient.com. The service features multi-account access, giving users a single application for retrieving up to five different mail accounts on mobile phones. The Push service also includes photo attaching and saving with colour-coding for identification of multiple accounts.
The Push application runs on any GPRS network and delivers push e-mail in real-time. The application supports some CDMA networks including Sprint, Verizon and Dobson in the U.S. and Aliant and Telus in Canada.
Consilient Push delivers mobile e-mail for consumer accounts including Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail and AOL e-mail. The application also supports any POP3 or IMAP4 account. Users can download the application on their current mobile phones and seamlessly alternate between personal and corporate e-mail.
Consilient Push Features:
- Push-based technology: no polling or configuring required
- Five e-mail account access: personal and corporate in a single application
- Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL Email & Gmail – Plus POP3 and IMAP4 access
- Phone “lock and wipe clean” if lost or stolen
- Colour coding
- Attachment support: MS Word, PDF, Excel
- Download sent via SMS
- 128-bit encryption
A Premium version of Consilient Push is available for US$5/month with enhanced features. The Premium version has an upgrade path to a full multi media suite of content sharing and mobile social networking.
Consilient Push uses open standards (LEMONADE/P-IMAP) and is available in a scalable version for mobile operators and ISPs. For more information, go to www.consilient.com/push.
Intel Centrino Pro provides wireless management and security capabilities
Intel Corp. announced it will extend its innovative features designed for desktop business PCs called Intel vPro processor technology into its forthcoming laptop offering.
With Intel Centrino Pro processor technology, IT managers will be able to manage and protect their notebooks over Wi-Fi. Intel Centrino Pro processor technology will be available in the second quarter this year.
A wireless component, Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N will give users farther away from their access points with support for the draft 802.11n specification. Another feature is the support for Microsoft Windows Vista’s graphic interface Aero. In addition, the optional Intel Turbo Memory means users can experience faster performance when loading frequently-used applications.
Networking
Digi introduces Digi Connect ME JumpStart Kit for Microsoft .NET Micro Framwork
Digi International introduced the Digi Connect ME JumpStart Kit for Microsoft .NET Micro Framework. Digi JumpStart Kits are a breed of development kits that develops network-connected devices. Digi will feature this kit and other JumpStart Kits at Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2007, booth 2202.
The Digi Connect ME JumpStart Kit for Microsoft .NET Micro Framework includes the Digi Connect ME embedded module, a development/carrier board, and samples and documentation for rapid evaluation and development. A free 180-day evaluation of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 is also available for download.
Initial kits will be available at ESC, with widespread availability by the end of April for an introductory price of US$299. For more information, please visit http://www.digi.com/dotnet.
ZyXEL provides appliance to store two terabytes of data
ZyXEL Communications announced the addition to their Network Attached Storage product line, the NSA-2400. The appliance is a four bay, SATA-based backup solution that enables information sharing, data backup and data protection.
The NSA-2400 is bundled with a complete client and server backup solution from Genie-Soft. The bundled software and hardware installation makes the NSA-2400 a snap to install.
The appliance has a storage capacity of two terabytes of data and four-tier data protection which includes backup software, RAID (0, 1, 5 and JBOD) support, snapshot and external backup.
Security
Lieberman Software packages security and reporting solutions into User Manager Pro Suite
Lieberman Software Corp. released its User Manager Pro Suite, a systems management solution that integrates the company’s User Manager Pro flagship product with password management and consolidated reporting tools. The product includes: Random Password Generator, Password Recovery Console, NTFS Permissions Reporting and Web Reporting.
User Manager Pro modifies groups, users, registries, policies, audit settings, and rights en masse, and also provides real-time, interactive reports for system data it collects. This solution administers thousands of systems simultaneously and is certified for Microsoft Windows Vista.
The four additional tools incorporated with User Manager Pro into the product suite add reporting capabilities for the entire enterprise, as well as the ability to generate and recover unique passwords for system on the network. These four products provide the following functionality:
- Random Password Generator – automatically updates a local administrator account with a unique password
- NTFS Permissions Reporting – displays which accounts have access to which files and folders in a single view
- Password Recovery Console – enables audited, Web-based recovery on demand of the current local administrator passwords
- Web Reporting – allows reports to be viewed through an audited Web interface
User Manager Pro Suite is available now directly from Lieberman Software and through the company’s network of resellers. It is also available on Lieberman Software’s GSA schedule. The product can be directly downloaded and immediately used for 30 days on 10 accounts at no cost from www.liebsoft.com/index.cfm/products/ump/download. User Manager Pro Suite is priced at US$39.00 per managed system with quantity, academic, charity and government discounts available.
Integrale MBD launches Nicto business intelligence platform
Integrale MBD introduced Nicto, a turnkey business intelligence platform for medium-sized and large enterprises.
Nicto offers a business solution that allows a company to gather, process, compile and store raw operational data for analysis and management.
Nicto was designed and developed by Integrale MBD. Services include creation, management, hosting and analysis of databases, predictive modeling, consulting services in business intelligence and the business process reengineering.