September 29, 2003
For Businesses, Text Messaging over E-Mail?
Some companies are reducing or eliminating e-mail in a bid to curtail computer spam and viruses - the latter often spread via e-mail and costing companies billions of dollars a year in lost productivity - and turning toward text messaging and voice calls overs cell phones instead, reports USA Today.
Some examples cited by USA Today:
- "Software maker Mobile Automation brought down e-mail use by 20% this year when it relied more on cell phones and instant messaging which, so far, isn't a big spam target.
- Security-services firm Guardent recently armed 25 of its 150 employees with cell phones. "People were spending five hours a day doing nothing but trading messages and deleting spam," says company President Paul Brady. "E-mail was not that productive or the best direct communication."
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