News: Software & Web

• IBM to ship Sametime 8, new entry-level version
  IDG News Service, The Industry Standard
  Nov 28 2007

  By John Fontana, IDG News ServiceIBM/Lotus next week will ship Version 8.0 of its Sametime real-time communications platform and a new entry-level version for those seeking basic enterprise instant ...

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• Microsoft won’t confirm proxy configuration flaw
  IDG News Service, The Industry Standard
  Nov 28 2007

  By John Fontana, IDG News ServiceMicrosoft Tuesday was still examining the details of a vulnerability discovered by a hacker that appears to exploit an eight-year-old flaw in Windows.So far, the ...

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• Dashboards and the human condition
  IDG News Service, The Industry Standard
  Nov 28 2007

  By Allan Wille, IDG News ServiceDashboards can unlock the value of decades of IT investments by linking your ERP, business intelligence and analysis tools to humans who can act on the information. ...

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• New tools from Intel drive Mac apps to Penryn
  IDG News Service, The Industry Standard
  Nov 28 2007

  By Agam Shah, IDG News ServiceIntel upgraded its software development tools on Wednesday to help Mac OS X Leopard applications perform better on Intel's Penryn processors, suggesting the ...

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• Top retail sites struggle with holiday online shopping rush
  IDG News Service, The Industry Standard
  Nov 28 2007

  By Linda Rosencrance, IDG News ServiceSome leading retail Web sites struggled to keep up with the rush of cybershoppers on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, two of the busiest online shopping days, ...

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• Windows, Linux grow while Unix stays flat (but undefeated)
  IDG News Service, The Industry Standard
  Nov 28 2007

  By Patrick Thibodeau, IDG News ServiceWindows and Linux operating systems are getting an ever-growing share of data center environments, as inexpensive x86 servers take over jobs once the domain of ...

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• UPDATE - Subverted search sites lead to massive malware attack
  IDG News Service, The Industry Standard
  Nov 28 2007

  By Gregg Keizer, IDG News ServiceA large-scale, coordinated campaign to steer users toward malware- spewing Web sites from Google and other Internet search engines is under way, security researchers ...

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• IBM adds tools to boost DB2 Data Warehouse performance
  IDG News Service, The Industry Standard
  Nov 28 2007

  By Heather Havenstein, IDG News ServiceIBM Wednesday rolled out a suite of performance management software designed to ensure that business intelligence applications that support critical company ...

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• Remember the pandemic threat? (Some) IT planners do
  IDG News Service, The Industry Standard
  Nov 28 2007

  By Patrick Thibodeau, IDG News ServiceThe avian flu has a plot line similar to a Stephen King novel. It's a menacing presence, mysterious and somewhat hidden, striking in out-of-way places and ...

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• New effort to link 50M online media site users to sites
  IDG News Service, The Industry Standard
  Nov 28 2007

  By Heather Havenstein, IDG News ServiceMore than 50 million users of online communities operated by media companies like Gannett Co., Reuters Group PLC, The Washington Post Co. and others will soon ...

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