According to this article, outsourcing services to India and other less expensive offshore labor pools has recently expanded to legal services. Mindcrest employs 459 lawyers in Pune, India. The Indian lawyers are trained in the same common-law and business principles as British, Canadian, and U.S. lawyers.
On one hand, the cost savings are extremely attractive. However, [...] ...
Richi Jennings noted in a recent bulletin the claim from BorderWare of getting 98.3% detection using IP Reputation (DNSRBLs), and that other sources suggested 75%.
Isode has been making measurements of false negative rates, published in a white paper, “Measuring the False Negative Rate for Isode’s M-Switch Anti-Spam.”
Our measurements suggest that the (public) DNSRBLs we use [... ...
We were recently briefed by Abaca, a vendor of spam control technology, on its proprietary ReceiverNet spam control algorithm. Abaca makes impressive claims for the accuracy and performance of ReceiverNet. The underlying algorithms have been explained to us under NDA, and they are very interesting. In essence — and at the risk of over-simplification — [...] ...
Whiteboarding is the ability to work on shared files on an on-screen “shared notebook” or “whiteboard.” Whiteboarding is available in many Web services; for example, it is a part of the WebEx Web conferencing system and in tools such as Microsoft NetMeeting.
The clear benefit to a standardized approach to whiteboarding is to enable distributed use [...] ...
Whether or not you or I believe BorderWare’s amazing claim that it filters 98% of spam using reputation alone, it’s clear that reputation is increasingly important.
No surprise there, but what’s the implication on legitimate email users?
As more and more spam filtering relies on your reputation as an email sender, your reputation gets more and more [...] ...