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Microsoft announced it has agreed to acquire Parlano, a provider of enterprise group chat solutions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. The transaction is expected to be completed in 4Q2007.

Article discussing the need to monitor and control the use of social networking tools like wikis, blogs and message boards.

H&S Software released “Disaster Recovery with Exchange@PAM,” its whitepaper. Discusses how the hierarchical storage management integrated into exchange@PAM aids in Exchange data recovery. Available immediately.

Datawatch released version 7 of Datawatch|BDS, its document archive, management, access and distribution solution. Key enhancements: ability to covert AFP and Metacode documents to text for data mining, eNotify which sends an email to each intended recipient of the document once it is stored in the archive, and improved web client, among others. Available immediately.

Lyris released the results of its new email deliverability study. Shows an increasing reliance on SPF authentication to determine whether the email is legitimate and should be delivered to the inbox.

BullGuard released BullGuard Mobile Antivirus Enterprise Edition. Keeps mobile devices safe from malware and data loss while incorporating specific tailor made features for large enterprises. Available immediately.