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January 24, 2007
Secure Your E-mail, 'Mission Impossible' StyleA weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.
January 24, 2007
By: Leslie Taylor
January 24, 2007 -- While the communique, "This message will self destruct," sounds like something out of Mission Impossible, in the future, it might become something we commonly read in our business e-mails.
BigString, a Red Bank, New Jersey-based e-mail provider, offers a new tool for business owners who worry that the information they send in an e-mail is vulnerable to interception when it is archived on Web servers or languishing in someone's inbox. BigString, which provides free, large-storage, Web-based e-mail accounts, allows users to send recallable, changeable, erasable, non-printable and self-destructing e-mails. E-mail senders can also track who reads an email and can control the number of times a message is read or forwarded. E-mail senders can set a time or date for e-mails to self-destruct and can create emails that can not be printed, saved, or forwarded by the recipient.
Users can apply BigString's security settings to most attachments, including video. By embedding its own video viewer in e-mails, BigString makes it possible for users to send a video that is subject to sender-control settings because it can only be viewed within the e-mail.
BigString offers a premium account that gives users an e-mail address with their own domain name and 2 GB of storage for $2.50 a month. Business service costs $150 a year for 10 e-mail addresses and 20 GB of storage. Both plans allow users to send video attachments up to 30 minutes long. The basic e-mail plan, which comes with 1 GB of storage and allows users to send video attachments up to five minutes long, is free.
