Daily news beat for March 13, 2008

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Mar 13, 20081 min

IBM moves on mashups with SMash, a tool for securing them that Big Blue says it is donating to the OpenAjax Alliance.

A database experts contends that Oracle trails Microsoft on patch management, does not make it easier for customers who want to make their databases secure and, what’s more, actually lags Microsoft by 5 years.

It’s not yet available to the public but already a team of developers claims to have jailbroken iPhone 2.0 firmware and done so in one day.

Microsoft is releasing an OOXML SDK into final beta next month, followed by Version 1.0 in May.

For the first time in history, data being created exceeded available storage space, according to an EMC-sponsored report conducted by IDC. (Full disclosure: IDC is owned by IDG, the parent company of InfoWorld.)

And Bill Gates says the next decade will bring “very substantial” software advances that permeate all facets of life, including television, telephones, PCs.