Seagate has isolated a potential firmware issue in certain products, including some Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives and related drive families based on this product platform, manufactured through December 2008
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Microsoft Silverlight to Stream Obama Inauguration
Microsoft announces that the Presidential Inaugural Committee has selected Microsoft's Silverlight technology to enable live and on-demand video streaming of the official inauguration swearing-in ceremony on the PIC Web site.
IBM Bluehouse Becomes LotusLive to Challenge Microsoft, Google in SAAS
IBM sheds the Bluehouse moniker for its SAAS messaging and collaboration applications, which are hosted in the cloud or over the Web. LotusLive Engage is IBM's enterprise applications challenge to Microsoft Windows Live and Google Apps. LotusLive integrates with Salesforce.com, Skype and LinkedIn to reach potentially 400 million new users.
RIM Now Supports IBM Lotus Quickr, Lotus Symphony on Smartphones
Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie celebrates RIM BlackBerry's 10th anniversary in enteprise mobility by pledging support for IBM Lotus Quickr, Lotus Symphony and additional support for Lotus Connections. Also, application developers can more easily develop new software applications for BlackBerry smartphones. Meanwhile, the BlackBerry platform support for XPages allows developers to write an app once for both Web and secure use on BlackBerry smartphones.
DiVitas Offers a Solid Unified Communications Option
DiVitas Networks' newest mobile UC platform moves beyond the usual fixed mobile convergence features to include secured instant messaging, presence and visual voicemail. Such features made up for a disappointing set-up experience.
ContentWatch Security Appliance Offers Filtering, Anti-malware
ContentWatch's CP 300 security appliance offers very good content filtering, traffic shaping and anti-malware capabilities, as well as excellent reporting. It also integrates with directory services such as LDAP to let businesses enforce Internet usage policy per person.
Testing Microsoft’s Windows Application Whitelisting Tool
The SRP feature in Microsoft Windows doesn't offer the same granularity of control or change management capabilities as whitelisting options from third-party suppliers, but there also are no extra licensing costs and it works well with Windows clients and servers.
MetaGeek Wi-Spy DBx Offers Cheap, Easy WLAN Analysis
With the proliferation of WLANs in businesses and homes, the need to plan and police wireless networks is growing. The MetaGeek Wi-Spy DBx USB device and accompanying Chanalyzer 3.1 software simplify sophisticated spectrum study for the masses.
Microsoft Virtualization Goes Cross-Platform with VMware Support
With System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft adds support for VMware ESX Infrastructure virtualization technology. With Hyper-V virtualization technology, now Microsoft can manage VMware virtualization technology.
Microsoft’s Exchange Isn’t the Only Way to Get the Message...
Updated offerings from Gordano and IBM Lotus prove compelling alternatives to Microsoft Exchange Server.
Treo Pro Looks Good, but Needs Improving
The Treo Pro from Palm is bringing a sleek new look to the smartphone for business users. However, the erratic 3G performance and battery life issues in the Palm Treo Pro need to be resolved.
Nokia’s E71 Is a Well-Equipped Smartphone
Nokia's E71 is a slim, feature-packed smart phone with an excellent thumb keyboard and enough battery life to last a full work day, offering better manageability, independence than the iPhone 3G.
Novell Adds Application Virtualization to Portfolio
Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization does a good job of virtualising software on Microsoft Windows desktop PCs. It is also a worthy competitor to Symantec Altiris SVS, Microsoft Application Virtualization and VMware ThinApp 4.
HP ProLiant DL185 G5 Storage Server Is Capable, Quick
With the ProLiant DL185 G5, Hewlett-Packard introduces a major update to the management software that improves usability over earlier versions of HP Storage Server Management Console. The ProLiant DL185 G5 can be configured as either an NAS or iSCSI SAN device.
VMware Workstation 6.5 Is a Top Virtualization Tool
VMware Workstation 6.5, the latest version of VMware's PC or laptop virtualization tool, continues the company's trend of offering top-notch technology to developers and power users. Other vendors are following VMware's lead in this area.
RIM BlackBerry Bold Comes Up a Little Short
RIM's BlackBerry Bold smartphone is a powerful device with a lot of storage, rich multimedia capabilities and excellent audio. However, it disappoints in several areas and in the highly competitive smartphone space falls behind other devices, such as the Apple iPhone and the Android-based T1 smartphone.
OpenOffice.org Grows Up
Nine years after Sun Microsystems bought StarOffice, the resulting OpenOffice.org project is ready to roll out its 3.0 release. Enhanced format compatibility and features put it on par with Microsoft Office.
Ubuntu Remains Best Linux Distribution for Desktops
Ubuntu 8.10 still outshines the Linux desktop offerings from Red Hat and Novell, and is the best open-source alternative to Microsoft and Apple operating systems. However, both Red Hat's Enterprise Linux and Novell's SUSE distributions are ahead in the server space.
BlackBerry Storm Lacks Punch
RIM's BlackBerry Storm smartphone offers all the enterprise features that businesses have come to know and love, and that Apple's iPhone lacks.
Fedora 10 a Solid Linux Choice for Workstations, Development Servers
The latest version of Fedora, the Linux-based operating system, gives users a peek at what they can expect to see in future Linux distributions from Red Hat and other vendors.
Google Chrome Web Browser Shines
No longer a beta, Google's Chrome Web browser is an able challenger to Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome offers strong new features, such as integration with Google Gears, a hybrid search address bar and solid security offerings.
Office 2008 Leaves Mac Users Wanting
While Microsoft's productivity suite for OS X is faster and more usable, the puzzling absence of full Exchange support detracts from Office 2008's basic mandate for providing Windows-world compatibility for the Mac.
Apple Services Keep Apps Fresh
Software Update Server and client-side update tools form the core of the patching model.
Scaling Apps on the Google App Engine
It's been almost a year since Google introduced the beta of its Google App Engine, and eWEEK Labs wants to see what applications have been built on the technology. While none have yet reached the size and power of Facebook or Twitter, some interesting tools have been built on Google App Engine, which shows promise as a viable platform for large Web-based applications.
Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie Talks Open Source, Azure and More
Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, on open source and interoperability, software modeling and the Windows Azure cloud operating system.
How to Ensure a Successful VoIP System Implementation
Some enterprise VoIP systems are all but unusable from the time they are implemented because nobody took the time to properly profile the existing network. Before implementing a VoIP system, take into account these five critical steps to ensure success.
SOA: Wanted Dead or Alive
Burton Group analyst Anne Thomas Manes set off a storm of IT industry chatter around the viability of SOA when she pronounced that service-oriented architecture is dead and the recession killed it. However, all SOA-related technologies will continue to gain importance.
Intel Atom Processor Road Map Springs a Leak
Intel will shrink its Atom processor to 32-nanometres in the second half of 2010, and the company is developing this chip and a new netbook platform under the codename “Medfield”, according to a research note that UBS analysts published earlier this month.
Inside Mobile: Why eBooks and eBook Readers Will Eventually Succeed
Reading eBooks from eBook readers similar to the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader will eventually be the preferred reading method for millions worldwide, predicts Knowledge Centre analyst J. Gerry Purdy.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: How to Prepare Your...
Companies frequently don't like to think about business continuity, disaster recovery, the expense of hot sites or even off-site storage. But, if you can't afford to lose it, then BC/DR is for you.