It also lets users control how and when Web sites put cookies on their hard drives. And it blocks banner ads that clutter pages and eat memory. Under the agreement, McAfee will offer the MailScan service to subscribers of Universo Online Inc., a Brazillian ISP working in Latin America. We reckon more ISP agreements will follow. The McAfee hosted applications are naturals for ISPs.
Online backups make a certain amount of sense.
This could be a logical addition to the portfolio of any ISP offering hosted business applications. This also makes sense. After all, your customers aren't going to leave you in a big hurry if you're holding their data hostage. The IDC report suggested information technology executives in medium-size and large companies don't even know what an ASP is yet, let alone intend to use one. It's worth noting that the study nowhere considers the case of ISPs specifically.