Businesses need to have single point protection
for all business messaging at the gateway, where
spam can be stopped before it impacts email servers and networks downstream.Spam is one of the major messaging challenges businesses face. According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, spam made up 59% of all email traffic between July 1 and December 31, 2006. Issues relating to spam as it continues to evolve, becoming harder to stop.When it comes down to it, businesses of all sizes face the same email and messaging challenges – and one of the most prevalent of those is spam.

Symantec has a very successful history of stopping these ongoing messaging problems,in addition to preventing viruses and spyware from propagating. Symantec Mail Security offers small to mid-sized businesses centralized control and protection for inbound and outbound IM and email at the gateway in an all-in-one appliance that sits at the edge of the business network.

The recent raft of announcements made by the LiMo Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance indicate that incumbent smartphone OS software vendors will soon face a serious challenge, deriving from two technically competent and coalesced Linux consortia.The LiMo foundation announcement of support from another major carrier in the form of Verizon, as well as the growing support for Android in the form of numerous global application developers coding innovative applications for the platform, categorically proves these are not a flash in the pan as many incumbents would have you believe. 

ABI Research vice president and research director Stuart Carlaw said, "By 2013, we expect that Linux will take 23 percent of the smartphone market and will be the second most prevalent solution behind Symbian. And although LiMo and Android will take the lion's share of the market for Linux solutions, there will be opportunities for solutions such as Maemo which will be facilitated by the encroachment of the MID (Mobile Internet Device) form factor into the mobile devices landscape.