Although the backdrop on this is political, it is not about any candidate rather another clear example of the "benefits" email brings to our lives.  In this case, we have the exchange between Clinton campaign press secretary
Philippe Reines and MSNBC reporter David Shuster about his questionable comments made on air.  These two gents had a snarky exchange that at least Shuster was engaged in via his Blackberry.  Here’s the link to the full exchange and note the
"Sent using BlackBerry" signature. 

What strikes me most about this is that here we have two public figures shooting nastygrams back and forth via email and now it is published for us all to see.  This type of scenario plays out every day in every organization.  Email is at best a one-sided conversation and certainly not a substitute for meaningful dialog.  Maybe someone should have picked up the phone.

I saw this a few days ago and have been meaning to do a post on it.  Google has finally packaged and released the functionality picked up via the Postini acquisition.  As anticipated, pricing is pretty reasonable but Google still needs to prove it can actually sell something besides ads:

• Google Message Filtering ($3 or €2.00 per user/year) provides basic spam filtering for any email server.
• Google Message Security ($12 or €8.00 per user/year) provides
  comprehensive email security and policy management for inbound and
  outbound messages.
• Google Message Discovery ($25 or €17.50 per
  user/year) provides comprehensive security, policy management,
  archiving, e-discovery for any email server.

Will companies take their approach to message security, filtering, and e-discovery seriously?  To be determined.   Safe to say there would be some hesitancy to having ads served up based on the indexed content of a company’s email archive (not part of the offering…but one must wonder).  Given what I repeatedly learned about the sensitivity and seriousness around corporate email, I’d imagine these needs will continue to be addressed by companies like Orchestria and MessageGate (I previously worked at both).

Looks like they pushed a few more out and would like to share if you are interested.  Ping me via email or leave a comment and I’ll send them until I run out.