Apps briefs

February 5, 2001 —

EnvoyWorldWide, a Billerica, Mass., start-up that guarantees the delivery of time-sensitive messages to any platform -- e-mail, telephone, fax, pager or wireless device -- has added a new feature that lets message recipients enter and maintain their own contact information. Called Envoy-Profiles, the feature requires message recipients to determine where, when and how they will receive their messages on different devices. This feature eliminates the burden of maintaining customer contact information for the message sender. For example, F-Secure, an antivirus software vendor, offers EnvoyProfiles to its customers so they can determine how they want to receive antivirus alerts. F-Secure used the Envoy-Profiles service for the first time earlier this month with the outbreak of a new strain of the Melissa virus. EnvoyProfiles costs $50,000, in addition to the standard EnvoyXpress hosted messaging service that costs between $25,000 and $40,000, depending on the complexity of the application.

EnvoyWorldWide: www.envoyww.com

Cyrusoft International, the developer of e-mail software, will release a Unix-based version of its Mulberry desktop e-mail client on Feb. 2. The client supports the standard Internet Message Access Protocol and Post Office Protocol. The software also supports Secure Sockets Layer encryption. Versions of Unix currently supported include Red Hat Linux Versions 5 and later, Linux PPC 2000, and Solaris 8 and later (X86 and Sparc). Other Unix versions will be released in stages during 2001. The software is priced at $39.95 with the security option. Without the option, the price is $35.95.

Cyrusoft: www.cyrusoft.com

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