The bMighty ANTenna -- August 2008 Archive

Rumor: iPhone Will Allow Tethering -- Friday, August 29, 2008

An apparently legitimate e-mail from Steve Jobs says that Apple is in discussion with AT&T about allowing computers to use a "tethered" iPhone to get wireless Internet access.

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Source(s): Gizmodo

LinkedIn Enhances Groups Collaboration Features -- Friday, August 29, 2008

Business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn has added features to its Groups platform that both add functionality and make it easier to use.

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Source(s): TechCrunch

Lenovo Introduces Low-Price, Low-Power Desktop -- Friday, August 29, 2008

Lenovo introduced a business-oriented desktop computer that costs less than $400 and meets the Energy Star 4.0 rating.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

Yahoo-Google Partnership Draws Antitrust Scrutiny -- Friday, August 29, 2008

The pending deal for Yahoo to place Google-supplied ads alongside Yahoo search results is drawing a lot of attention from state and federal antitrust regulatory agencies.

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Source(s): CNET

Xen.org Releases New Version Of Open Source Hypervisor -- Thursday, August 28, 2008

Xen.org, the developer of the open source Xen project, announced the release of the Xen 3.3 hypervisor engine, with new power-saving and security features.

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Source(s): MacNewsWorld

Google Android Phones Get App Market -- Thursday, August 28, 2008

Customers for upcoming Google Android-based mobile devices will be able to download applications for it from the Android Market.

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Source(s): CNET

Report: SMBs Drawn To 802.11n -- Thursday, August 28, 2008

A survey by ABI Research asking "What do Cisco SMB Wi-Fi Customers Really Want?" identified increased bandwidth and greater security among the answers.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

SugarCRM Upgrade Adds Usage Tracking -- Thursday, August 28, 2008

A new version of the open source customer relationship management solution SugarCRM improves its reporting capabilities and lets managers monitor how it's being used.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

Cisco Buys Exchange Competitor -- Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Cisco Systems has acquired PostPath, an open-source online collaboration software vendor with e-mail and calendaring applications.

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Source(s): MarketWatch

AT&T Rolls Out New International iPhone Data Plans -- Wednesday, August 27, 2008

AT&T has added two new iPhone data plans that should make using Apple's smartphone outside the U.S. cheaper.

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Report: Businesses Finally Moving to Vista -- Wednesday, August 27, 2008

A Forrester research brief claims that businesses are ramping up their adoption of Vista, and advises that other businesses do so to get ready for Windows 7.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb

More Airlines About To Add WiFi -- Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The CEO of Aircell, the company that started providing Internet service on some American Airlines flights, said that up to four other airlines are moving forward with the service.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

Red Hat Issues RHEL Security Advisory -- Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Responding to the attempted break-in to its servers last week, Linux vendor Red Hat has released an update to certain components of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) software packages.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb

Google Opens Ad Manager To Everyone -- Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Google announced general availability of its Ad Manager, a hosted ad and inventory management tool.

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Source(s): Google AdSense blog

This Year's Data Breaches Already Exceed 2007 Total -- Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) lists 449 breaches for 2008 so far, up from 446 for all of last year.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

Adobe Upgrades Photoshop Elements, Expands Photoshop.com -- Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Adobe announced Photoshop Elements 7 and Premiere Elements 7, new versions of its entry-level photo and video editing products, as well as new features for its online photo service.

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Source(s): Adobe press release via MarketWatch

Citrix Updates Application Virtualization Solution -- Monday, August 25, 2008

Citrix Systems announced XenApp 5, a new version of its Presentation Server solution, promising greater speed and lower management costs.

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Source(s): Citrix press release

Xerox Brings Document Management to SMBs -- Monday, August 25, 2008

Xerox has launched DocuShare Express, a lower-priced version of its DocuShare content management software for small and midsize businesses.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb

QuickBooks Comes To iPhone, BlackBerry -- Monday, August 25, 2008

Intuit announced that its its QuickBooks Online application will now work with both Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry smartphones.

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Source(s): Intuit press release

Tandberg Increases Storage Capacity, Adds Continuous Protection -- Monday, August 25, 2008

Tandberg Data introduced RDX FileKeeper, "always on" backup software for use with its RDX QuikStor cartridge-based storage systems, as well as new cartridges with 500 GB capacity.

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Source(s): Tandberg press release

Nortel Takes Audio 3D With DiamondWare Buy -- Friday, August 22, 2008

Continuing its quest to provide collaborative communications, Nortel has made its second acquisition in as many weeks, scooping up 3D voice software maker DiamondWare.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb

Midsize Companies Most Worried About Security: Report -- Friday, August 22, 2008

Midsize companies are more concerned about information security than they are about reducing business costs, according to new research.

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Source(s): Dark Reading

Google, Verizon Getting Cozy? -- Friday, August 22, 2008

Google and Verizon could become partners should their reported mobile pact go through.

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Source(s): The Wall Street Journal

'Sharepoint Meets YouTube': Zoho Intros Zoho Share -- Friday, August 22, 2008

Zoho has added document sharing to its productivity-application mix, with a central repository called Zoho Share.

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Source(s): TechCrunch

Intel Demonstrates Wireless Power -- Thursday, August 21, 2008

At its developers forum, Intel demonstrated a way of transmitting 60 watts of power two or three feet, without wires or other physical connection.

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Source(s): Brighthand

Amazon Adds Persistent Storage to EC2 -- Thursday, August 21, 2008

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) computing service now comes with Elastic Block Storage (EBS) to eliminate the loss of data when a computing instance was shut down.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

FCC Spanks Comcast For Traffic Blocking -- Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Federal Communications Commission has ordered Comcast to stop blocking peer-to-peer traffic and make other changes to the way it manages its network, or face the possibility of an immediate injunction.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

American Airlines Launches In-Flight Internet -- Thursday, August 21, 2008

American Airlines will make broadband Internet service available on its Boeing 767-200 aircraft during nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami.

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Source(s): The Inquirer, InformationWeek

IBM Building Business Resiliency in the Cloud -- Wednesday, August 20, 2008

IBM is investing $300 million in constructing Business Resilience centers around the world to enable customers to access business continuity services from the cloud.

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Source(s): IBM press release

Oaisys Upgrades SMB Call Center Software -- Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Version 5 of the company's Tracer SMB-oriented call center software adds several new features and will also come with the Talkument voice documentation package.

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Source(s): CBR

Salesforce Buys Software Maker InStranet -- Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Expanding beyond its CRM roots, SaaS leader Salesforce.com has announced the $31.5 million acquisition of InStranet, which specializes in call-center software.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, CNET

SMB Ad Spending Stays Strong: Report -- Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Despite the economic climate, 81 percent of SMBs say they will spend as much as or more on advertising in the coming year, according to a new report.

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Source(s): Online Media Daily

Microsoft Eases Virtualization Restrictions -- Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Microsoft announced that it is eliminating the extra fees customers must pay to move server software from one physical host to another, as well as the restrictions on how frequently that can be done.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, The Register

Treo Pro Photos Leaked, Palm May Announce Today -- Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Photos and a video of the Palm Treo Pro briefly made it onto the Palm Web site, while one of its media agencies indicated that the new smartphone may be officially announced today.

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Source(s): The Register, CNET

Apple Extends MobileMe Accounts 60 Days -- Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Apple is tacking on 60 days of free service to MobileMe accounts to thank users for their patience since the service's shaky start in July.

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Source(s): Macworld

Microsoft Blog Post, Now MIA, Reveals Date for Office 14 Alpha -- Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Is Microsoft looking for people to alpha-test Office 14, the next version of its Office productivity suite?

Read all of "Microsoft Blog Post, Now MIA, Reveals Date for Office 14 Alpha"

Source(s): Computerworld, ZDNet

Mozilla, Others to Develop Smartphone/Laptop Hybrid -- Monday, August 18, 2008

Seven companies, including Mozilla, are working on a Linux-based mobile device that would fall somewhere in between a smartphone and a laptop.

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Source(s): InfoWorld

HP Unveils Ultraportable Computers -- Monday, August 18, 2008

Hewlett-Packard has come out with three new small, light notebooks -- a ruggedized model and a tablet in the EliteBook line, and a bargain Compaq-branded model.

Read all of "HP Unveils Ultraportable Computers"

Source(s): InformationWeek, CNET

Dell Loses Bid For Cloud Computing Trademark -- Monday, August 18, 2008

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has denied Dell its application to trademark the phrase "cloud computing."

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Source(s): PC World

Lenovo Takes on MacBook Air (Again) With ThinkPad X301 -- Monday, August 18, 2008

Six months after Lenovo unveiled the ThinkPad X300 laptop, its first challenge to Apple's MacBook Air, expect an ultraportable follow-up from the vendor: the ThinkPad X301.

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Source(s): The Tech Herald, DailyTech

Microsoft Starts Windows 7 Blog -- Friday, August 15, 2008

Microsoft has launched a blog to keep the world abreast of progress on its next-gen Windows 7 operating system.

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Source(s): Redmond Magazine, InformationWeek

Sun Open Sources Java ME Tools -- Friday, August 15, 2008

Sun Microsystems has open-sourced its Java toolkit for building mobile applications under the "GPLv2 with Classpath Exception" license.

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Source(s): CNET, The Register

Google Readies Smartphone for Mid-September Release -- Friday, August 15, 2008

Rumors appear to be solidifying that Google's Android-based smartphone will hit market next month.

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Source(s): Wired, VentureBeat

Intel Unveils Tech That Remotely Wakes Sleeping PCs -- Friday, August 15, 2008

Wakey, wakey: Intel is adding Remote Wake technology to four of its motherboards, enabling users to stir their desktop computers out of sleep mode from afar.

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Source(s): Computerworld, PC Magazine

Report: SMB Tech Spending to Increase Steadily Through 2012 -- Thursday, August 14, 2008

According to new research from Compass Intelligence, small and midsized firms will increase their information and communications technology (ICT) spending by 6 to 8 percent a year through 2012, accounting for $413 billion that year.

Read all of "Report: SMB Tech Spending to Increase Steadily Through 2012"

Source(s): InformationWeek

Banking Giant Considering Switch to iPhone -- Thursday, August 14, 2008

Worldwide banking presence HSBC is considering moving from the BlackBerry to the iPhone as its standard mobile device for its hundreds of thousands of staff.

Read all of "Banking Giant Considering Switch to iPhone"

Source(s): ZDNet

Intel Launches Tiny Solid-State Drive -- Thursday, August 14, 2008

Intel has announced a small, light solid-state drive (SSD), as well as technology to enable Windows to take better advantage of flash memory.

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Source(s): The Inquirer, CNET

Sony Ericsson Touchscreen Smartphone Due in October -- Thursday, August 14, 2008

Reports are that the Sony Ericsson Experia X1, the company's first Windows Mobile-based smartphone, featuring a touchscreen and slideout keyboard, will hit the market in early October.

Read all of "Sony Ericsson Touchscreen Smartphone Due in October"

Source(s): The Register, IntoMobile

Entrepreneur Launches Social Network For Small Biz -- Thursday, August 14, 2008

Entrepreneur is the latest to jump on the social networking bandwagon with the announcement of Entrepreneur Connect, a social network for small business people that strives to be a "business-to-business marketplace designed specifically for entrepreneurs."

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Source(s): Folio

Best Buy to Sell iPhones -- Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Starting some time after Labor Day, Best Buy will begin retail sales of the Apple iPhone.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb

Lenovo Introduces "Mobile Workstation" -- Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Lenovo debuted the ThinkPad W700, a behemoth notebook to serve the needs of the "most data- and graphics-intensive users."

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Source(s): Business Wire via MarketWatch

Nortel Buys Pingtel for Unified Communications Software Know-How -- Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Nortel is broadening its reach in the unified communications market with the acquisition of software maker Pingtel.

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Source(s): Ottawa Business Journal

Yahoo's Location-Based Platform Takes Flight -- Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Yahoo has launched Fire Eagle, a platform for location-based services that it says makes life easier for developers to create geo-aware applications.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, The New York Times

Dell Updates Latitude Laptop Line -- Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Dell has added the E series to its Latitude line of laptops, one of which put the computer maker head to head with Apple's MacBook Air.

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Source(s): PC Magazine, Forbes

SAP's Business Objects Group Unveils New BI Tools -- Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Three weeks after upgrading two business-intelligence software offerings for the midmarket, SAP's Business Objects unit has unveiled a new tool that helps users jazz up their PowerPoint and PDF-based presentations with interactive Excel charts.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, IT World

Cisco Combines Linksys SMB Channel Program Into Own -- Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Cisco Systems is absorbing the Linksys Small-Business Channel Partner Program into its own partner program in a move it says will make doing business with SMBs easier for its channel partners.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb, eChannel Line

Google Resolves Gmail Outage -- Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Gmail users were without their e-mail service for two hours on Monday thanks to a systemwide outage beginning around 2 p.m. PT.

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Source(s): WebProNews

HP Announces EliteBook Mobile Workstations -- Monday, August 11, 2008

Hewlett-Packard has announced a trio of EliteBook laptops equipped with professional graphics capabilities.

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Source(s): VNUnet, Laptop Logic

Dorado Unveils Scalable Network Management Software -- Monday, August 11, 2008

Dorado Software has released systems and network management software that can scale for growing SMBs.

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Source(s): Business Wire

HP Bolsters ProCurve Arm With Colubris Acquisition -- Monday, August 11, 2008

HP is expanding its presence in the wireless space with a definitive agreement to acquire Colubris Networks, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of wireless networks.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb

Virtual Iron Adds Power Management to Virtualization Software -- Monday, August 11, 2008

Virtual Iron Software has upgraded its namesake server virtualization software to include power management capabilities.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

Microsoft Readies 12 Patches, Reveals New Security Plans -- Friday, August 8, 2008

Microsoft is getting ready to release a dozen security patches when Patch Tuesday rolls around next week.

Read all of "Microsoft Readies 12 Patches, Reveals New Security Plans"

Source(s): InformationWeek, Network World

IBM Unfolds Its Mobile Hand With Raft of Announcements -- Friday, August 8, 2008

IBM is throwing more weight behind its mobile efforts with new software and services designed to make users' smartphones more like their PCs.

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Source(s): Network World, Computerworld

Mozilla Integrates Messaging Functionality in Firefox Add-On -- Friday, August 8, 2008

Mozilla has introduced a new extension for its Firefox browser that lets users read their e-mail, Twitter updates and RSS feeds in a single interface.

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Source(s): PC Pro, Big Mouth Media

HP, CDW Team to Sell to SMBs -- Friday, August 8, 2008

SMBs that work with Hewlett-Packard's channel partners will soon be dealing with a new middleman: CDW.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb

Google Offers New Tools to Advertisers -- Thursday, August 7, 2008

Google introduced new features to make it easier for advertisers to control how often an ad is displayed and measure its effectiveness.

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Source(s): CNET

Unison Brings Unified Communications to Ubuntu Linux -- Thursday, August 7, 2008

Canonical, sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, and Unison Technologies have agreed to bring Unison's unified communications suite for SMBs to the Ubuntu Linux platform.

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Source(s): The Register

Oracle Introduces Virtual Machine Templates -- Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Oracle has introduced a group of VM Templates, preconfigured software stacks ready for one-step deployment on Oracle VM virtual machines.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, PR NewsWire via Marketwatch

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 -- Wednesday, August 6, 2008

The latest edition of Microsoft's database software is aimed at improving data compression, scalability, and concurrent workload management.

Read all of "Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008"

Source(s): InformationWeek

Google Refines Searching Stats for Advertisers -- Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Google is beta testing a new tool that helps advertisers and marketers better understand users' searching behavior and increase the effectiveness of their online campaigns.

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Source(s): Search Engine Land, CNET

IBM Bringing Linux to SMBs -- Wednesday, August 6, 2008

IBM is aligning itself with the leading names in Linux to expand open-source adoption among SMBs.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb

AT&T Establishes Cloud Presence -- Tuesday, August 5, 2008

AT&T has launched Synaptic Hosting, a new online managed computing and storage service.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

Sybase Launches Unwired Enterprise Platform -- Tuesday, August 5, 2008

At its annual users conference, Sybase demonstrated the Sybase Unwired Platform, a new architecture for deploying mobile applications throughout a business.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, BusinessWire via Forbes

Delta Airlines to Offer WiFi -- Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Delta Air Lines has announced plans to offer passengers fee-based WiFi on all domestic flights.

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Source(s): Engadget, Associated Press

Micron Preps Solid-State Drives -- Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Micron is getting ready to roll out two new solid-state drives (SSDs) aimed at the notebook and server markets.

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Source(s): EETimes, CNET