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Nowadays, more and more companies are looking for ways to streamline their business procedures. When you look at the technology at your fingertips, do you wonder if there aren't ways you could get more out of the systems you already have in place?

It would be hard to dispute the instantaneous business advantages that mobile phones have brought to business. Nor can you doubt the impact that email has had - it continues to be an incredibly powerful - if not somewhat underutilised resource!

Increasingly businesses are mobilising their workforce; field technicians, sales representatives, contractors have more freedom to work remotely than ever before.

Add to this that companies are always looking for ways to quickly and cost effectively stay in touch with customers, just how do you get the best out of your communication tools?

Email to SMS is a facility that allows you to send text messages via email. It is rapidly growing in popularity and when you look at some of the reasons companies adopt the system, it is not difficult to think of a way you could utilise it in your own business!

Email to SMS allows you to do things like:

• Communicate with field staff and receive responses quickly
• Coordinate a team by sending out roster reminders, dates and times of activities etc
• Send clients or patients reminders about pending appointments
• Send customers broadcasts regarding specials or promotions
• Remind students about overdue library books, or notify them regarding the availability of reservations

Correct Solutions has partnered with MessageNet to bring you Email to SMS services. You can send a single message, broadcast messages to a distribution group in Outlook, or even send a mail merge to add a personal touch!

For more details on the MessageNet Email to SMS solution you can check out some of their case studies, or call us on 02 8831 8200 for further information.

Special Offer!!  Sign up to MessageNet via our registration page this month and tell us in 25 words or less how you intend to make use of the system! The most creative use of MessageNet Email to SMS will win the value of a Prepaid P120 MessageNet Service (includes 500 messages valid for 12 months or $120 reimbursement off your first month's MessageNet bill). Email your entries to info@correct.com.au before February 26, 2010 to enter!

Without sounding like alarmists, it is safe to say the Web has become a dangerous place.

The number, types, and complexity of Web threats has increased 1564% from 2005 to 2007 (according to Trend Micro research) and there has been a definite shift from technical harm (outage or inconvenience) to business harm (identity theft, loss of critical digital assets, and harm to reputation).

The situation has grown even more complicated with the rise in the number of mobile workers. When they're outside the office, what infections might they get? And what do they bring back to the office when they return? Indeed, how does a small business take advantage of the Web both inside and outside the office, without having to worry about the risk to the business from security threats?

With all this in mind, Trend Micro have released Worry-Free™ Business Security 6.0; a safer, smarter, and simpler one-stop security solution that provides total Web, email, and malware protection for laptops, desktops, servers, and SMTP/Exchange Servers.

Worry-Free™ Business Security 6.0 is a cloud-client/server security solution, bundled with InterScan Messaging Hosted Security Standard (IMHS-S) which provides protection from 99% of all spam before it reaches your gateway. Worry-Free is designed to meet all the key security needs of SMB networks, protecting you from wide range of threats and potential nuisances. These include viruses/malware, spyware/grayware, spam, Web threats, unauthorized changes, macro viruses, malicious Java™ applets, phishing incidents, and malicious ActiveX™ controls.

Key new features of version 6.0 include:

• Smart Scan technology - the benefits are faster time to protect and insurance against exponential growth of the pattern size on the client machines.
• URL Filtering - lets administrators control access to websites based on their rating. Filter strength can be set to high, medium, low, or custom settings, and by business and leisure hours.
• Smart Feedback - allows customers to feed back data about their threat experiences to Trend Micro, who then use this information to look for new threat patterns, find new malware samples, and improve the overall quality of the product.
• USB Device Control - protects against malware that could potentially auto-install from a USB device.
• Web Threat Protection - stops malware real-time, at the source, before it can be downloaded from the Internet.
• Transaction Protector - protects users against malicious hijacking activities when doing online transactions.
• Instant Messaging (IM) Protection - outbound content filtering protection and restriction of sensitive corporate data in the form of words or phrases being sent out through chat sessions.