Yoggie and Lenovo Solve "Email Wait"
Don't you just hate waiting for you laptop to boot up before sending an e-mail? I know I do. Now it looks like someone is going to do something about it. Yoggie Security Systems and Lenovo just announced an agreement to build the perfect solution. The two are working on a new ExpressCard module that provides constant and secure email access, even when the laptop is switched off letting users send and receive emails immediately after turning on their laptop.
The new product will be based on Lenovo's ConstantConnect and Protect 2products as well as Yoggie's Gatekeeper Architecure. Constant Connect allows Lenovo laptop users to send and receive email through their BlackBerry.Yoggi is an Israeli startup manufacturering USB key-sized and ExpressCard-sized security minicomputers, called Gatewkeepers, that block Internet threats It's like have a mini-IPS/IDS and firewall running outside of your laptop wherever you go.
As with the Gatekeeper, the Yoggie-Lenovo venture will be a 34 mm ExpressCard-compatible card that boasts its own processor, RAM and hardened OS. The device will use a built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to synchronize the laptop with a RIM's BlackBerry device and downloads new e-mails from Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, POP3 and Gmail accounts to its 500MB of Flash-based storage. The emails will then be automatically available to the user the moment that the laptop is switched on. For users who like to queue up their emails, the device can even send emails after the user has switched off or hibernated his or her laptop.
As well as delivering instant email, the device safeguards users by using Constant Protect, an onboard custom-engineered security technology designed by Yoggie, which ensures all email content is safe and provides a full-fledged Internet security suite protection for the laptop. The device includes a suiteof fourteen security programs including a firewall, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, and Anti Virus/Spyware as well as being able to cloak the user's surfing activity.
The product is due to ship in the middle of next month. Pricing was not announced.