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Mail Cruncher Service Debuts

FullScaleCommerce.com Inc. in Jamestown, R.I., has announced Mail Cruncher, an antispam service for businesses that uses a "business trust rating database" to rank and sort e-mail for review by the user. To make reviewing potential spam easier, the service color-codes types of e-mail based on whether previous messages have been sent to the user and whether those messages were accepted or rejected. It also groups messages by domain. The service is priced at $3 per user per month.



IronPort Upgrades Security Appliance

IronPort Systems Inc. in San Bruno, Calif., has released a new version of its C-Series e-mail security appliance. The device, which performs antivirus, antispam, encryption and content-scanning functions, now includes a dashboard interface. It also comes with Email Security Manager, a peer-to-peer management tool that doesn't rely on a central management server. In addition, the appliance features a virus outbreak filter, which blocks infected e-mail messages based on updates from the vendor's database of new virus attacks.



Smart Door Lock Announced

Lockmaker Assa Abloy AB in Stockholm and cryptographic technology start-up CoreStreet Ltd. in Cambridge, Mass., have announced a new line of door locks that combine physical and logical access. The locks use CoreStreet's KeyFast technology to transmit user access permissions between wired and disconnected doors. The technology will help companies use a single digital credential to secure both logical and physical access. The reader and lock, slated to ship in the first half of next year, will cost about $1,000.