What would happen is that an e-mail sent by virtual Jack to virtual Jane would end up in actual Jane's in-box as well.
Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Web hosting.
In the last few years our private lives have been inundated with junk mail and our mailboxes real and virtual are filled to the tipping point with brand magazines and offers.
In-person meetings can also help teams avoid misunderstandings: As one of our friends who runs a virtual workplace puts it, with e-mail exchanges alone, everyone starts to get a bit paranoid.
The jab comes as Apple announced it will build a slew of business-friendly features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including support for push e-mail, push calendaring, push contacts, virtual private networks and support for certificates and identities into the next version of its iPhone operating system.
In parallel, define a security architecture and migration strategy that provides security through browsers, Secure Sockets Layer and passwords in the short run, and gets you started on PKI by deploying technologies such as IP Security virtual private networks and the Secure Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions e-mail standard.
The jab comes as Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) announced it will build a slew of business-friendly features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including support for push e-mail, push calendaring, push contacts, virtual private networks and support for certificates and identities into the next version of its iPhone operating system.
More than 3.6 million Koreans have avatars, or virtual selves, representing them in chat rooms and e-mail.
"Once video conferencing becomes as common as phone calls and e-mail, I think the majority of communication will be virtual, " predicts Nova Spivack, president and chief executive of Radar Networks, a startup software concern.
They usually get a call or e-mail from someone in the company wanting to know why their virtual desktop and other applications are taking forever to load.
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Since I can usually be relied upon to check my e-mail religiously, I felt that I needed to warn those who are part of my virtual world.
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It is the Goliath of the Web, with search, e-mail, e-commerce, instant messaging, classified ads, and even its own virtual planet with Google Earth -- all adding up to one mega-market cap.
This transforms the car into a virtual office, giving motorists not only dull information such as how fast they are travelling, but also e-mail, the Internet, news services and navigation functions.
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