RTS is bundling its CryptoStick secure USB pen drive with Mozilla software, namely: Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird. These are special versions designed to store all contents to the pen drive and provide a portable private environment.

Included software ensures all data stored is encrypted to prevent data theft in case of an incidental device lost. 

Along with Mozilla applications, RTS own CryptoBuddy provides enccrytio services, Compuer Associates' Pest Patrol for adware control with a 1 year subscription, and Private Internet Browsing, which seems to provide similar privacy services for Internet Explorer users.

It is available in 128MB, 256MB and 1GB as 2 inches long dongles and 2GB and 4GB capacities as 3 inches long ones. Encryption applications are Windows only at this moment. Mac and Linux versions are currently in development as well as AES support but users can use it as a regular pen drive.

The Mozilla Calendar project has released version 0.3 of Sunbird, a Gecko-based calendar application; and Lightning, a similarly capable extension for Thunderbird.

According to the release notes, these versions feature:

Basic handling of events received in email allows you to easily add iMIP events to your calendar.

• Reloading network calendars is now possible.
• Agenda view rolls over to the next day at midnight.
• 24-hour views show you your entire day, not just a few hours.
• Reliable alarms ensure you are notified about events or tasks.
• Improved localization support
• Vastly improved reliability makes it much more difficult to lose data.
• Many performance improvements

Michael Bemmer, Sun Microsystems' StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Director Software Engineering, announced (PDF) during the latest OpenOffice.org Conference that addressing OOo future OpenOffice.org (an open source office suite) versions will feature email and calendar functionality based on Mozilla  Lightning, a project that aims to deliver Sunbird calendar functionality into Thunderbird as an extension.

Among expected functionality: 

• Schedule appointments / meetings
• Address book, Invitations, Free / Busy information
• Timezone support
• Access rights including delegation
• Backup / Restore of calendar and config data
• Sun Java System Calendar Server
• At a later time: Microsoft Exchange and offline mode to sync with Notebook/PDA support.

According to Bemmer's presentation, this will address a main feature set requested by users through surveys, will solve Microsoft license issues and will allow a complete migration to an open solution.