The term "mobile devices" can mean different things to people. For some, they mean laptops. For others, they mean smart phones, Tablet PCs or PDAs. A few might even include USBs. Personally, I think "mobile devices" includes anything that enables me to have a mobile or portable office.

But however you define a mobile device, it is clear that it is both a productivity booster and a data breach accelerator.

The growth of the "digital tsunami" or the "data tsunami" is still a very much a hot topic. At the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made waves (pun intended) when he said that "There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days, and the pace is increasing...People aren't ready for the technology revolution that's going to happen to them."

It happens to all of us. Just minutes after Fedex leaves the lobby, you get a call from your legal department informing you that they made a few more changes to the big sales contract. Or the beta software you've sent out has a new patch--and an additional DVD?

eTouchware has announced a technological breakthrough that allows Blackberry to securely send messages outside of the Blackberry network. Messages and attachments can be secured with the use of secure protocols, message and attachment encryption, one-time passwords, download limits, expiration dates and a variety of other security measures.

Safe-T now offers secure managed file transfer for iPhone®, iPad®, BlackBerry®, Lotus Notes®, Outlook Express®, Thunderbird®, Opera Mail® and Eudora®.

The expanded support was enabled by eTouchware's new SafeRelay module that allows global deployment of the Safe-T Secure Managed File Transfer Solution without any mail server plug-ins or changes to the configuration of users' mail clients or PDAs.

They say you can't get something for nothing, but it's not true. "How's that?" you ask.

When it comes to managed file transfer or "MFT", transferring large files inside the network is fairly straightforward; almost a no-brainer. Sending large files outside the network can be more of a challenge--especially if the recipient needs to preregister or install a plug-in. With Safe-T, no plug-in is required... but we've already covered this territory.

The other day a friend at a biotech company asked me how Safe-T differed from other managed file transfer solutions. While I talked a lot about flexibility and extensibility, I couldn't find a nice analogy... until now. And it's Burger King's Subservient Chicken.

In the recently released report, The Digital Universe Decade - Are You Ready?, the IDC delivers some "shock and awe" about the size of the digital universe, i.e., the amount of digital information in the world. In 2009, they "calculated" it to be 800,000 petabytes or 800,000 million gigabytes. That's the equivalent of a stack of DVDs reaching from the earth to the moon and back (!).

With Safe-T, there is no maximum file size. Really. Not 10 GB, not 20 GB and not 50GB. Simply put, you can send files or folders of any size with the Safe-T Solution. And it makes no difference if you send your files using the Safe-T plug-in for Microsoft Outlook or our web user interface.

All large email attachments are offloaded to the Safe-T Enterprise Server, relieving strain on Microsoft Exchange or your corporate email system. No less important, your email client fully stays fully operational during file transfer and you can continue to use your email and even send additional large files.

For more questions about Safe-T, please see our FAQ.

Many are surprised by a story first published by the New York Post: that the perennial underdog, Apple Computers, is being investigated by the DoJ for monopolistic practices. Actually, I'm a bit surprised that the DoJ didn't start an investigation until now.

I love my iPod, but discussions of Apple's monopolistic (or Microsoftistic?) practices didn't just start with Steve's Job's pronouncement about Flash. With a quick Google, I picked up a story in PC World from way back in September 2007:

"People love iPods... But iPods come bundled with iTunes. Want to buy music from Apple? Guess what? You must install iTunes. Want an Apple cell phone from AT&T? Yep! ITunes is required even if you want only to make phone calls. Want to buy ringtones for your Apple phone? ITunes... Apple not only "bundles" iTunes with multiple products, it forces you to use it. At least with Internet Explorer, you could always just download a competitor and ignore IE."