General Electric Co Inc’s GE Information Services has upgraded its electronic mail system, BusinessTalk System 2000 for Windows: data compression has been improved, and a gateway application has been added to enable links to external services; bulletin boards can now enable drag-and-drop two-way posting of notices and files, and textual databases and on-line discussion boards have been added; version 1.1 of the package is available now in the UK and it sells for UKP205.