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Arcot brings two-factor authentication to Google Apps

Arcot will bring its A-OK On-Demand authentication service to Google Apps Premier Edition, providing another layer of security for the online applications

iPhone features slowly woo enterprise skeptics

Thanks to recent enhancements like Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support and VPN access, the iPhone is becoming more attractive — and acceptable — to enterprises

Adobe executive leaves for equity firm

John Brennan, who had been the head of Adobe's Platform division, which oversees the Flash player and PDF format, has left to join Silver Lake Sumeru

IT M&A provides opportunities

The U.S.'s financial decline has slowed consumer and business spending, but recent strategic mergers are providing plenty of investment opportunities

Google exec praises, criticizes Apple iPhone

Apple device has application limits, Google's group manager for mobile platforms stresses

Security futurists shun perimeter, anti-virus systems

Speakers at Source Boston 2008 conference contend that enterprise should look to outsourcing and grid computing to protect against increasingly sophisticated hacker attacks

IBM buys single sign-on technology for Tivoli

IBM purchased Encentuate in order to add that company's single-sign-on technology to its own Tivoli line of products

Vista zealots are eating their young

Red Hat buys Amentra to bolster JBoss enterprise plan

Red Hat plans to sell Amentra's JBoss Java infrastructure to enterprises as the basis for SOAs

IT’s top 5 training mistakes

New and upgraded software and gear are only as good as the training behind it. Here are five pitfalls to avoid as you work to bring your training game up to par

Harvard grad students hit in computer intrusion

About 10,000 Harvard students had their personal information comprised, including 6,600 whose SSNs were also viewed

Daily news beat for March 13, 2008

Gates: Next decade will bring huge software advances

Computers and software have changed how people take photographs and buy music, but other industries will be affected just as much in coming years, Microsoft chairman predicts

Update: AOL to buy Bebo for $850 million

AOL is the latest of the major online players to grab a piece of the social-networking pie

The greening of Microsoft

Cloud computing: a mistake to ignore

NSA on the hidden dangers of virtualization

Microsoft releasing OOXML SDK

Microsoft plans to issue the final beta of its OOXML SDK next month, despite a hold on the ISO's approval

Asus predicts Windows Eee PC will outsell Linux version

Asus expects to ship around 3 million Windows Eee PCs this year, even though the Windows laptop costs nearly twice as much as the cheapest Linux model

Otellini defends Intel in EU’s antitrust hearing

European Commission antitrust officials will now begin drafting a final ruling on charges that Intel abused its dominant position in the chip market

Database expert: Oracle trails Microsoft on patch management

Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing has made a real difference; Oracle is lagging five years behind and makes it complex to install patches, according to a database consultant

Google launches hosted ad management service

Free Ad Manager service streamlines how ads are placed on Web sites and generates performance reports detailing how successful the ads are in reaching consumers

Password-stealing hackers infect thousands of Web pages

Infected Web sites look no different, but hackers have added JavaScript code that redirects visitors' browsers to an invisible attack launched from China-based servers

IBM moves on secure mashups

Big Blue promotes interoperability with donation of SMash technology to OpenAjax Alliance

eBay now letting Skype be Skype, exec says

eBay will stop trying to find overlap between its online auction service and Skype and simply let the VoIP service follow its own path

Acer unveils multimedia-optimized notebooks

The Aspire 8920 and 6920 notebook lines feature full HD LCD screens, Blu-ray drives, and full Dolby surround-sound audio

Microsoft delivers first update for Mac Office 2008

The update fixes more than two dozen problems, though some users have reported having trouble getting their machines to recognize the update

Data creation outstrips storage for the first time

A new IDC report shows that data is being created at a faster rate than previously thought, and yearly data production is exceeding available storage space

Linux Foundation: We’d love to work with Microsoft

In an interview, Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's executive director, talks about desire to interoperate and discusses the desktop outlook for Linux

Can Microsoft make users ‘love’ its software?

At Microsoft's Convergence conference, the company claimed that it could get end-users to not just accept but love its Dynamics ERP and CRM software

AMD starts shipping triple-core Phenom processors

The chips are presently being shipped in volume to PC makers only, and Dell and HP have hinted at using Phenom in desktop PCs

Ping adds to wares to support SaaS

The company has bought appliance-based technology from Sxip in order to add to its single sign-on services and tools

Microsoft acquires desktop virtualization firm Kidaro

In move toward virtualization, Microsoft plans to integrate Kidaro's management technology into the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance

Gates repeats request for more H-1B visas

The Microsoft chairman says that the current H-1B limits are driving away the world's best engineers and scientists

Single malt Scotch and IT incompetence

Featherweight notebook battle: CloudBook vs. Eee

The popular Eee now has a new challenger with the same price, same size, and a different Linux distribution

Microsoft submits Windows 7 for U.S. antitrust review

Last week's status report on Microsoft's antitrust case showed that the company has submitted a build of the follow-up to Windows Vista to ensure antitrust compliance

Daily news beat for March 12, 2008

Making iPhone ‘over the top’ for developers

Aptana releases Ruby on Rails tool

Company also working on AJAX server

What not to blame for ‘Vista Capable’ fiasco

Update: BT partners on software-based SMB phone system

Interface lets users launch calls with one click, see logs

DoubleClick could snap Google out of its funk

Facing threat of Microsoft buying Yahoo, missed earnings, and a report exposing its Achilles' heel, search giant's execs commit to rebalancing

Two years after patch, another IE FTP flaw

Attack viable, but stars have to be aligned just right, security vendor says

Wal-Mart removes Linux PC from store shelves

Spokeswoman says decision was based on 'how our customers vote with their purchases'

BlackBerry under security scrutiny in India

Government in the region is demanding access to encryption algorithms, messages on its service

Adobe ColdFusion warming to 64-bit OSes

Additional 64-bit support will be offered for both the Windows and Linux platforms before a full-scale update, called 'Centaur,' is released in 2009

Microsoft, Nortel announce new UC solutions

The new products all integrate with Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 to offer unified communications

BT: A case study in agile programming

U.K. telecom giant BT Group adopted agile programming in 2005 and found that after some initial speed bumps, the development philosophy is a boon to its business

House panel explores net neutrality antitrust law

Congress may attempt to resurrect a failed 2006 bill that would have made it an antitrust violation for broadband providers to block or impair competing content