September 26, 2005

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PanGo to launch new software, RFID tags for asset tracking
PanGo Networks Inc. tomorrow will release an upgrade of its asset tracking software and a second-generation active RFID tag that's half the size of the original version and less expensive.

In Brief: Flashline debuts product for managing SOA, Web services
Flashline has introduced Flashline for SOA, which provides governance, registration, and lifecycle management of Web services and SOA. The product focuses on architectural compliance and policy enforcement during planning and design phases of the software development lifecycle. The chain of relationships and dependencies is managed ranging from artifacts such as WSDL and XML schemas to business processes and applications.

Case not made for storing data: EU adviser
No compelling case has been made for storing details of all telephone calls and e-mails in the European Union to tackle terrorism, the EU's top adviser on data protection said today.

Are holograms in your storage future?
Imagine storing 20,000 X-ray images on a disk the size of a credit card. That's one grand promise stirring up the buzz over holographic storage for the enterprise.

Motorola CEO has unkind words for iPod Nano
Motorola CEO Ed Zander had some harsh words for the new iPod Nano, introduced to rave reviews at the same time as Motorola's Rokr phone, which incorporates a version of Apple's iTunes.

Mendocino Software unveils continuous data protection
Mendocino Software announced its first product for protecting applications, databases and file systems running on enterprise-size networks.

Phishing attacks, and cures, grow more sophisticated
Phishing is hooking more victims as the e-mail fraud attacks become more sophisticated and prevalent, according to research firm Gartner.

Symantec updates consumer security lineup
Symantec released the latest version of its Norton security software, adding a new "protection center" to its Norton Internet Security 2006 applications suite.

Palm's Windows Treo to arrive in early 2006
Palm Inc. today unveiled an upcoming Treo smart phone that runs Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 and will be available in the U.S. early next year.

Web advertising up 26% in Q2, study says
U.S. Internet advertising revenue grew 26% to $3 billion in the second quarter, according to a study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Sophisticated phishing targets Yahoo users
A phishing scam that targets Yahoo users records their username and password when they log in then forwards them on to a legitimate part of the Yahoo portal, according to Websense Inc.

September 24, 2005

Surviving Rita: A tale of two data centers
For the second hurricane in a row, New Orleans-based DirectNIC kept its servers up and running as Hurricane Rita lashed the area. It even offered to help out another Web hosting vendor, EV1Servers.net, in Houston. But EV1Servers.net did just fine on its own.

Update: As Rita drew near, Web hosting vendor prepared
About 25 employees of Houston-based Web hosting vendor EV1Servers.net vowed to hunker down inside the company's offices and data centers ahead of Hurricane Rita, which made landfall early Saturday.

September 23, 2005

Security event managers rule the roost
You won't find many IT products as ambitious as the SEM (security event manager), which attempts no less than to track, correlate, and ultimately make sense of a vast number of events occurring throughout a sprawling enterprise network.

SEM test bed tribulations
We certainly didn't make things easy for the vendors in this SEM test. By the time we were finished, our test infrastructure had been replaced, our test equipment was showing signs of failure, and our client devices were calling in sick -- the ones that would communicate at all.

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U.S. state finalizes plans to phase out Office
Massachusetts will support the newly ratified Open Document Format for Office Applications, or OpenDocument, as the standard for its office documents.

Network providers prepped for Rita's rage
Telephone repair crews that have been working to fix damage from Hurricane Katrina were being maneuvered into place today to handle the problems expected in the wake of Hurricane Rita.

Progress adds Eclipse, ESB link to apps platform
Progress' OpenEdge is a 4GL-based business applications platform that features development tools, a deployment environment, application server, database server, management tools and integration capabilities.

Q&A: Microsoft GM says service focus goes beyond Google, Yahoo
Martin Taylor, general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft Corp., talked about his company's reorganization and stressed that it should not be seen merely in terms of competing against Google and Yahoo.

Watson search tool adds to MSN Search
MSN Search Toolbar add-in provides computer users with Web links related to text displayed on Microsoft's Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Internet Explorer applications.

KatrinaHealth.org to offer access to storm evacuees' drug data
KatrinaHealth.org, a Web site designed to provide authorized health professionals secure online access to the medical records of Hurricane Katrina evacuees, is now up and running.

CyberSource intends to buy CardSystems assets
Electronic payments company CyberSource Corp. plans to buy most of the assets of CardSystems Solutions Inc., the credit card processing company hit by a massive security breach earlier this year.

The butler didn't do it for Ask Jeeves
Name and butler icon are out as surveys showed users tended to pigeonhole the search engine as "old-fashioned" and only appropriate for question-based queries.

U3's CEO Purmal talks up smart USB drives
Company hopes technology that lets applications run off portable drives is wave of the future.

Dell plans notebook for Cingular's HSDPA network
Move is latest in a flurry of announcements about embedded wireless broadband access in laptops.

Watson search tool adds to MSN Search
The Watson 2.0 contextual search software released by Intellext earlier this month is now available as an add-in package for Microsoft's MSN Search Toolbar application, Intellext announced Friday.

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Intel backs WiMAX trials in Southeast Asia
As part of its effort to push adoption of WiMAX fixed-wireless broadband technology, Intel Thursday said it is working with government regulators and operators in several Southeast Asian countries to conduct tests of the technology.

September 22, 2005

Mobile Trojan targets PCs too
Virus writers have come up with a way to make their malicious software jump from a mobile phone to the PC. Security researchers on Thursday reported the first sightings of a new Trojan program, which masquerades as pirated software for mobile phones and attempts to infect PCs via the phone's memory card.

VeriSign develops tools for wireless roaming
Mobile users typically move among multiple networks: a wired DSL connection at home, a Wi-Fi hot spot at the airport, a landline connection at a hotel, and 3G service in between. Today, users must use a connection manager to log off one service and log on to another manually. Future smart clients, however, will be able to detect available networks and switch among them based on which networks are fastest, which are cheapest, and which are most secure for business use.

Wireless broadband's long and winding road
First, the good news: for companies planning to deploy broadband connectivity to their mobile workforces, the options have never looked better. Initial rollouts of 3G (third-generation) cellular data technology are fulfilling the technology’s promise. Sales and field forces can connect to the Internet and corporate applications from virtually anywhere, network speeds are reasonable, and deploying the technology requires only minimal IT investment.

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Allied Home Mortgage looks to Entellium CRM for sales
Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corp. has tapped Entellium Corp. in a hosted CRM deal designed to generate new sales for Allied's branch offices nationwide.

Telecom operators look to head off mobile viruses
Mobile security is on the agenda for most cell phone service providers, even though customers are not yet asking for it. Some telecoms are already starting to install security software on subscribers' cell phones.

OpenWorld: Ellison says on-demand software will be vital
Siebel's CRM OnDemand service will play an important role in Oracle's product line once Oracle's planned $5.85 billion Siebel acquisition closes, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said yesterday at OpenWorld.

Google debuts partner program for enterprise products
Google today is unveiling a partner program for its enterprise products and hopes to sign up ISVs, resellers, consultants and systems integrators.

Enterprise security takes stage at DEMOfall '05
While the gamers and entertainers get all the headlines at shows like DEMOfall '05, enterprise solutions are the backbone of the bi-annual show that connects high-tech innovators with high-tech investors.

Nokia puts music on hold for phone range
Nokia is delaying the introduction of the N91, its cell phone that can store as many as 3,000 songs, missing the end-of-year shopping season.

A call to action: It's time for EMR
A few months ago while waiting at my doctor's office, I noticed a group of young people shuffling an enormous amount of documents on the other side of the glass partition. After watching a little longer I noticed a certain order to their apparently chaotic activity. The team was fishing manila folders out of a large box in the middle of the floor and, after a quick reading, reaching out for a binder in which to store them.

VoIP managers recount challenges setting up service
Network managers on hand for this week's Voice on the Net conference said that setting up VoIP service often means accommodating new technologies, unexpected problems and changing demands from end users and business managers.

FCC head: Hurricane shows need for redundant telecom
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants the U.S. government to incorporate the Internet into its emergency warning system and said telecommunications companies should take full advantage of IP-based technologies to enhance their networks.

OpenWorld: Oracle users won't let company off the hook
Although Oracle officials have been good at communicating the company's plans to its installed base, users remain wary over whether it can smoothly swallow -- and then integrate -- the technologies it is has been acquiring.

Drug firms launch Web site to disclose trials data
In an effort to allay patient concerns about drug safety, the pharmaceutical industry has launched a Web site that provides information about clinical trials on new medicines.

Shareholders pressure Sun on two fronts
Sun shareholders are asking the company to reconsider its policies on executive compensation and revamp its poison pill, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

SB05-264: Summary of Security Items from September 14 through September 20, 2005
Summary of Security Items from September 14 through September 20, 2005

September 21, 2005

Liberty Alliance urges standard for UK ID card plan
As the U.K. government moves ahead with a national identification card plan, it should be based on open standards, the executive director of the Liberty Alliance said Wednesday at a press briefing in London.

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New Firefox 1.0.7 release fixes critical security bugs
The Mozilla Foundation has released a new version of its Firefox browser that contains fixes for two critical security bugs in the software that were reported over the past week.

In Brief: Zend enhances PHP management in Zend Platform 2
Zend Technologies announced Zend Platform 2 with enhanced application performance and simplified data synchronization. Zend Platform supports the application life-cycle of PHP applications. New features include session clustering to improve PHP application performance and response time; enhanced PHP Intelligence modules; and PHP configuration cloning across servers. Zend Platform 2 also improves multiuser support and makes the installation process easier. Zend Platform 2 is available now for Linux and will support Sparc Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac OS later in the month. Single-processor server pricing is $995; a two (or more) processor server is priced at $1,495.

Symantec India to identify products for global market
Symantec's product development center in Pune, India, has been assigned to identify new products for the company's markets worldwide, according to an executive of the company.

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EC: ISPs should be compensated to tackle terrorism
The European Commission will propose on Wednesday that telecommunications operators and Internet service providers should be compensated for the extra costs of collecting and storing call data to help law enforcement officers track terrorists.

With lessons learned, IT managers prepare for Rita
IT managers in the Gulf Coast region threatened by powerful Hurricane Rita are rolling out disaster recovery plans as the Category 5 storm appears headed for Texas.

New Firefox 1.0.7 release fixes critical security bugs
Mozilla has released a new version of the Firefox browser that fixes a buffer overflow problem in the software.

OpenWorld: Oracle buys logistics software maker G-Log
Oracle yesterday announced plans for another acquisition, this time scooping up Global Logistics Technologies for an undisclosed sum in an effort to boost its supply chain management technology offerings.

Former Novell exec's firm supports SUSE Linux, rebrands
StreamServe says it's in the "enterprise document presentment" business.

Authors sue Google over Google Print
The Authors Guild and three individual writers object to entire works being copied into database, while Google counters its program conforms to fair use and copyright principles.

The joys and woes of working via Wi-Fi
After Hurricane Katrina knocks out his power, an IDG News Service correspondent heads to Barnes & Noble and Starbucks to get his work done.

Open-source ESB, Java program model advance
SymphonySoft is updating the Mule ESB and JBoss is introducing its Seam model for building enterprise Java applications.

Top LCD maker bets research on LED backlights
The technology costs more than mainstream backlighting, but AU Optronics says customers like its better contrast and color quality.

Orange launches new device for business users
The M5000 operates on Orange's 3G wireless network and includes a QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a still camera and a video camera.

IBM, Maersk deliver cargo-tracking device
IBM and Copenhagen-based Maersk Logistics International A/S have unveiled Tamper-Resistant Embedded Controllers, intelligent, real-time cargo-tracking devices that provide shippers with real-time data on the movement of their goods.

ST05-016: Understanding Internationalized Domain Names
Understanding Internationalized Domain Names