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Hosted E-Mail Archiving Company Seeks SP Partners Alex Goldman
[May 13, 2008] The eponymous Stephen Marsh says that his company, Smarsh, is prepared for anything after winning over the financial and health care sectors.

E-Mail Security in the Worx Alex Goldman
[February 13, 2006] This product offers ISPs encrypted e-mail. It's a service designed to be offered to small- and medium-sized business, at first.

E-Mail Marketing System Pays ISPs, Eases Filtering Alex Goldman
[February 10, 2006] While charging money to send e-mail is not new at all, the details of the system embraced by AOL and Yahoo! include several unique elements.

AJAX Integration Progresses at Webmail.us Alex Goldman
[December 14, 2005] Using the latest in Web 2.0 technologies enables the webmail provider to offer more.

Blue Security's Anti-Spam Community Alex Goldman
[December 5, 2005] There's plenty you could do about spam, if you had the time. Eran Reshef says you should let his team fight your spam fight for you.

How E-Mail Helps SMBs Compete Alex Goldman
[December 16, 2004] One service provider says its offering, available for resale to ISPs, enables small business to compete with big business.

GoDaddy Adds E-Mail Marketing Alex Goldman
[April 5, 2004] Develop in house, sell cheap, and make money on high sales volumes. That's the philosophy at GoDaddy, which just added e-mail marketing software to its portfolio of value-added services.

Small Fish, Big Name, Right Price Alex Goldman
[January 15, 2004] Barracuda Networks has been making waves with its simple, affordable anti-spam appliances.

A Simple Business Opportunity Alex Goldman
[January 8, 2004] Clean, reliable, useful e-mail will sell, as the experience of UK Web veteran Easyspace proves in its new Easypost offering, powered by Everyone.net. Full service e-mail is especially valuable to less-savvy customers.

Carrier Class Anti-Spam Alex Goldman
[October 16, 2003] When the carriers need anti-spam software that can scale to protect millions of subscribers, they call on Openwave.

Cobion Anti-Spam Offers More to ISPs Alex Goldman
[October 7, 2003] A software provider with a unique take on content filtering and anti-spam rolls out co-branding and revenue sharing for ISPs. The company's first US co-brand explains what features ISPs will want to look for.

The Anti-Virus Appliance ISP-Planet Staff
[September 3, 2003] SteelCloud's AVG (Anti-Virus Gateway) is designed to provide enterprise-class anti-virus. The hardened box is designed with network managers and ISPs in mind.

The Spam Conundrum Alex Goldman
[August 29, 2003] Numerous simplistic suggestions are being touted as solutions to the difficult problem of spam. Unfortunately, one of the easiest effective spam-fighting strategies is impossible in the litigious environment of the U.S.

Outsourced E-Mail for Everyone Alex Goldman
[June 5, 2003] Josh Mailman of Everyone.net wants his company to become the world's e-mail provider. 500 million e-mails per month is a good start.

AOL: We've Got (New) Anti-Virus Services Erin Joyce and Brian Morrissey
[May 2, 2003] As AOL unveils a new service and showcases a brighter outlook for online advertising, its president of interactive marketing retires.

Filtering for Enterprise Customers Alex Goldman
[April 17, 2003] An application from webwasher, the German company once known for its ad-blocking software, is designed to provide comprehensive Internet protection for an ISP's enterprise customers.

Modified Mail Could End Spam ISP-Planet Staff
[April 7, 2003] Peter Kay, founder of The Titan Key, an anti-spam startup, says his solution is the only one that provides mailbox owners less spam the longer they use a particular e-mail address.

Ready to go Right Out of the OrangeBox ISP-Planet Staff
[March 27, 2003] Cobion's OrangeBox Web Home version 1.0 is a fully-featured home filtering solution aimed at ISPs and enterprises supported by a data center that crawls 120 million websites every month.

Monitor Instant Messaging ISP-Planet Staff
[March 13, 2003] Here's a massive solution to the problem of the solicitation of minors on the Internet. Stellar Internet Monitoring's application logs all instant messages exchanged on your network, in addition to logging all Web activity.

RedV PopUpProtector Alex Goldman
[March 10, 2003] Gene Kavner, whose previous company partnered with Gator Corporation, is now in the business of fighting intrusive advertising, and seeks to distribute his product through a revenue share program with ISPs.

Integrated Messaging Redefined Ted Stevenson
[March 3, 2003] Are there ways for dialup ISPs to leverage their enforced marriage to copper phone lines in order to squeeze more revenue from their customers? One (more) company thinks so.

Slower Spam Would Annoy Spammers ISP-Planet Staff
[February 20, 2003] ePrivacyGroup has released a new anti-spam solution that complements but does not replace anti-spam solutions already in place. SpamSquelcher shapes bandwidth to prioritize those traffic streams that it determines are "less spammy" than others.

E-Mail by Phone ISP-Planet Staff
[February 13, 2003] Audiopoint has released version 2.0 of its Voice Terminal Service, allowing subscribers to interact with e-mail inboxes by phone.

E-Mail Professional Business Letters Alex Goldman
[February 5, 2003] Letter Services, Inc., of San Rafael, Calif., has launched a service that turns regular e-mails into business letters. The company is looking to ISPs as channel partners as it targets small business customers.

Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Services Best of Best of ISP-Lists
[January 2, 2003] Members of the ISP-Lists discussion lists team up to share vital knowledge in the ongoing anti-spam and anti-virus wars.

What's RPG to You or Me? Ted Stevenson
[October 21, 2002] RingCentral has bundled a collection of value-added services into its RPG Platform. It is no grenade, but may generate explosive revenue growth in the hands of the right service provider.

Hotmail Gets Brightmail Brian Morrissey
[September 19, 2002] MSN Hotmail looked to Brightmail for a spam solution that will enhance measures already in place.

Poetry vs. Spam in Amsterdam Gretchen Hyman
[September 12, 2002] Habeas, Inc., a developer of a poetry-based campaign to block spammers, won its first European contract this week with Amsterdam-based ISP and webhost Villa Hosting.

Audiopoint Signs Two More ISPs dc.internet.com Staff
[September 11, 2002] Audiopoint of Fairfax, Va. is aggressively marketing its E-mail by Phone product to ISPs, and has just landed two more ISP customers.

Anti-Spam Startup Seeks ISP Partners Alex Goldman
[September 6, 2002] Vanquish, an anti-spam startup, is looking for small- and medium-sized ISP partners. We spoke to Vanquish and to Netware of North Andover, Mass.

EMC Teams With Critical Path Colin C. Haley
[August 7, 2002] The Hopkinton, Mass., storage leader and San Francisco Internet communications specialist will provide messaging systems to carriers and other companies.

ISPs Rave About Vircom's Anti-Spam Capabilities Alex Goldman
[July 19, 2002] ISPs small and large are rallying behind Vircom's suite of VOP products in a customer-based coalition that shows just how well the IETF's filtering language works.

ISPs Fight Spam Bots Best of ISP-Lists
[July 8, 2002] Members of the ISP-Tech list share advice on protecting customers from programs that troll websites looking for e-mail addresses to sell to spammers.

Best Practices Best Tool to Fight Spam ISP-Planet Staff
[June 27, 2002] Global Internet group says focusing on people by closing down open relays and educating users, not focusing on technologies such as spam-filtering, is the best way for ISPs to fight spam.

Converged Services Platform Wayne Kawamoto
[June 20, 2002] NMS Communications' Convergence Generation 6500C high-density IP/PSTN media platform is designed to enable wireless and wireline value-added services.

Postini Pro and Con Best of ISP-Lists
[May 21, 2002] Members of the ISP-Tech list discuss, yes, the pros and cons of various spam and anti-virus technologies, starting with Postini's service for ISPs.

Spam Busting with Brightmail Patricia Fusco
[April 30, 2002] If you're not keen on routing all your e-mail through a third-party server or tapping into blacklisted IP addresses, what spam-killing options remain?

Mirapoint's Multiprocessing Messengers Alex Goldman
[April 12, 2002] Mirapoint's latest product line features the flagship M4000 Message Server. With two 1.4 GHz Pentium III processors, available in SAN-ready and NAS-ready versions, this messenger is faster than ever.

Building a Healthier, Low Spam Internet Best of ISP-Lists
[March 28, 2002] Members of the ISP-Tech list take a break to complain about the proliferation of spam on the Internet. It's time to wake up, smell the coffee, and install any one of several suggested spam filters.

MailSite Amps Up For ISPs Michael Singer
[February 14, 2002] Rockliffe released a special edition of its MailSite messaging product designed specifically to enable ISPs to generate revenues from value-added services such as anti-virus.

VESN's Hosted E-Mail Service ISP-Planet Staff
[February 12, 2002] The hosted e-mail service is priced on a per-mailbox-per-month basis, and should appeal to ISPs that have business customers but have not built an e-mail management interface.

Charging Fees For What Once Was Free ISP-Planet Staff
[January 10, 2002] The decision by free Web mail providers like Hotmail and Yahoo to start charging for a premium service has opened the door for ISPs to profit from offering premium e-mail services.

Web and Voice-Integrated Phone Service Wayne Kawamoto
[December 10, 2001] Virtual assistant service, which may be licensed by ISPs, recognizes spoken commands to accomplish a variety of Web-integrated phone and e-mail tasks.

ISP Co-op Teams Up With IM Provider Bob Woods
[November 8, 2001] Instant Messaging company Imci has teamed up with the Online Service Universe Co-Op to provide own-branded fully-interoperable instant messaging to the co-op's ISP member companies.

Next-Generation Telephony Services Solution Wayne Kawamoto
[June 11, 2001] BroadSoft's service delivery system will operate with Tekelec's softswitch to let service providers offer Web-enabled telephony features including call forwarding, conferencing, and voice mail.

The Value of Free Best of ISP-Lists
[June 5, 2001] Members of the ISP-Marketing list discuss whether it's best to charge incremental prices for services such as spam filters, or whether to provide them for free in order to increase customer satisfaction.

CMeRun ... Down Gerry Blackwell
[March 9, 2001] It's always useful to understand why seemingly good ideas didn't work. In fact, online postmortems may be more valuable to your ISP, than dot-com success stories.

No Room for Proximity Jeff Goldman
[February 22, 2001] The Internet is diffused, spread out over the globe in a vacillating alliance between man and machine. So why should content be delivered from the nearest server?

New ASP Offering Allows ISPs to Offer Voicemail Wayne Kawamoto
[December 19, 2000] eVoice's voice-ASP division reaches out to ISPs with a service that will allow subscribers to receive all voice messages on a single software platform.

Need to Block Instant Messaging? Best of ISP-Lists
[October 26, 2000] Members of the ISP-Security list find that it's quite difficult to block most instant messaging programs. They suggest non-technical solutions.

Dawning of the Instant Messaging Era Gerry Blackwell
[September 15, 2000] Simple and successful, IM built with grown-up pursuits in mind is taking hold as a business tool. As packaged by one ASP, it can become a potent weapon in the ISP's business-building arsenal.

Beyond Internet Call Waiting Gerry Blackwell
[August 14, 2000] Many ISPs have had a measure of success offering ICW to their dial-up users. Here's a new, free call notification system based on IP voice technology that does the job more reliably.

Point of Contact Alex Goldman
[June 27, 2000] Mirapoint, a messaging solution provider, announces a partnership program for ISPs.

Jabber: The Linux of Instant Messaging?  Patricia Fusco
[June 23, 2000]  An open-source alternative enters the instant messaging fray, trumpeting a challenge to AIM's dominance of the market.

VoDSL: Opportunities and Confusion for ISPs Jim Thompson
[May 23, 2000] Voice over DSL appears to be poised to open new markets with increased profits, but it's also prompting many ISPs to re-examine their business and their future.

The Chinese Government, VoIP, and You ISP-Planet Staff
[May 1, 2000] ITXC Corp.'s agreement with China Telecom makes its international VoIP services more attractive than ever, and the buildout of its network may be a revenue opportunity for you.

Internet Call Waiting: Rewards Without Risks  [April 17, 2000] The fledgeling ICW industry has made a sharp course correction. Rather than require ISPs to invest in infrastructure, providers now offer the service on an ASP basis.

Become a CLEC: Part 2  [March 15, 2000] For most ISPs, the immediate savings on trunk charges justify the move, but those who become fully functioning CLECs can look forward to garnering a portion of a projected $160 billion telecom market.

Serious about Voice? Become a CLEC  [February 16, 2000] Complex? Yes, but still an option worth considering. For starters, you'll save enough on trunk charges to pay for the status-change operation. And then, you'll be able to offer voice over DSL.

Internet Call Waiting - Part 2  [January 5, 2000] ICW appears to offer real revenue opportunities to large, telco-style companies, but how well will it scale down to the local and regional ISP market?

Internet Call Waiting - Part 1 Gerry Blackwell
[December 15, 1999] Want some of the revenue associated with the promise of IP telephony—without the headaches and uncertainty? Here's a promising line of business.

The Tax Man Cometh? Gerry Blackwell
[October 13, 1999] Accustomed to operating in an unregulated (and largely untaxed) environment, ISPs entering the Internet phone business tend to ignore tax issues—to their peril.

Hands-Off Calling Service Gerry Blackwell
[September 9, 1999] A new VoIP business model from TEK DigiTel locates (free) hardware on customer premises and utilizes partners' managed IP networks. ISPs act primarily as agents.

Turnkey VoIP System . . . Network Included  Gerry Blackwell
[August 11, 1999] A managed network combines with centralized clearing-house, billing, and accounting functionality to make a reliable, profitable, hassle-free value-add for ISPs.

Taking the VoIP Plunge Gerry Blackwell
[June 11, 1999] Industry analysts report that more than one-third of all North American ISPs are planning to offer Voice over IP services by the end of next year. Will this prove to be a bonanza—or a bust?