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  • Review: Firefox 3.5 makes browsing faster, easier and more fun
    Mozilla's new Firefox 3.5 puts this popular browser ahead of the pack with significantly better performance, improved tab handling and a number of nifty new features.
  • Security should be paramount concern with cloud-based e-mail recovery
    Cloud-based disaster recovery has become a viable option for safeguarding e-mail, but IT shops need to ask tough questions about data security and resiliency before committing to a vendor, analysts say.
  • Seven Deadly Sins of Social Networking Security
    Admit it: You are currently addicted to social networking. Your drug of choice might be Facebook or Twitter, or maybe Myspace or LinkedIn. Some of you are using all of the above, and using them hard, even IT security practitioners who know better.
  • The cost of scaling Wi-Fi capacity
    Wireless LANs rarely allow for simple direct cost comparisons. In addition to variable pricing structures among vendors, one reason is that product architectures differ. That means some systems have different components than others. So how can you compare them, tit for tat?
  • Trade groups urge China to drop Web filtering program
    A wide-ranging group of trade associations has urged China to lift its requirement that an Internet filtering program be distributed with all new PCs, with the order set to take effect this week.
  • Windows 7 Upgrade: Why Pay Twice For the Same OS?
    In another blow to customers, Microsoft says free Windows 7 upgrades--for companies that purchase new hardware between now and the Oct. 22 release date of the new OS--will be limited to 25 machines.
  • Software not smart enough to sort human relationships
    Internet search engines and software applications can catalog huge volumes of information, but they aren't smart enough to trace personal relationships between people, according to the executive chairman of World-Check, a company that maintains a database of individuals that banks and other companies might want to think twice about doing business with.
  • Microsoft charges Europeans double for Windows 7
    European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared to U.S. users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe, according to Microsoft.
  • Google's Android gets native development capabilities
    Google moved to boost its Android mobile device software platform this week by offering developers a kit that enables them to call native code from Android applications.
  • IBM upgrades Tivoli Identity Manager
    Lots of announcements hitting the wires over the past couple of weeks, so we'll do a quick roundup in this issue and the next, and then go in depth in later issues for the announcements that warrant it.
  • Experts Only: Time to Ditch the Antivirus?
    To the average IT security practitioner, the idea of disabling antivirus on new machines might seem blasphemous. After all, weren't we all told in IT Security 101 that everyone needs AV to keep the malware and data thieves at bay?
  • Palm delays webOS developer kit, Mojo
    With little explanation, Palm has delayed the release of Mojo, the software development kit for its webOS platform, until the end of the summer.
  • VC puts money in open source management software
    Open source IT automation and management software maker Reductive Labs secures $2 million in venture capital funding from True Ventures and other private investors to further develop its Puppet product.
  • Can you manage an iPhone like a BlackBerry?
    Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access policies like a BlackBerry can. Businesses can buy a BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Motorola Good for Enterprise server to manage user profiles over the air, ensuring that users conform to password policies, encryption policies, app-installation restrictions, and so on, as well as have their e-mail, VPN, and other settings preconfigured to reduce hands-on deployment effort.
  • Microsoft SharePoint vs. Enterprise 2.0 Start-ups
    This week represents an important inflection point for the Enterprise 2.0 market, a set of software vendors that sell social networking technologies to businesses. Analysts say the number of competitors will consolidate in the coming year as Microsoft captures greater market share. The start-ups that will survive must carve out a longterm place for themselves by building applications that are far more innovative and cheaper than those of the incumbent software giant. In addition, they must convince businesses that Microsoft SharePoint's "good enough" strategy is not, in fact, good enough for today's enterprise collaboration needs
  • Open-Source Routers Are Becoming an IT Option
    Analysts say the technology is not for everyone, but some IT managers are turning to open-source routers in an effort to gain capabilities while cutting costs.
  • XCast Labs draws $2.7M finance deal
    XCast Labs caught our attention earlier this month when it closed on a $2.7 million financing deal. The company targets smaller cable operators, competitive local exchange carriers, and others who want to offer integrated IP-based services to their users.
  • Enabling enterprise video surveillance with video analytics
    Over the past decade video surveillance has migrated from analog closed circuit television systems with point-to-point connections to modern digital systems that run on IP networks. Enterprise video surveillance systems can scale to hundreds or thousands of cameras spread across geographically dispersed facilities, but this presents bandwidth, processing and storage challenges.
  • Google warns of issues with its Outlook sync tool for Apps
    After promising that people can use Outlook "seamlessly" with the Gmail component of its Apps suite, Google is toning down those expectations.
  • Apple reminds Palm Pre owners what 'unsupported' means
    Hey, Palm Pre owners--are you enjoying the ability to sync your smartphone with iTunes? Do you get a giddy little thrill each time you plug the Pre into your computer and Apple's music jukebox application recognizes it as if you were syncing an iPhone or iPod? Do you agree with PC World's review of the Pre which listed iTunes syncing as one of the factors that made "syncing your media with the Pre... a snap?"
  • IBM steps up healthcare application work in China
    IBM is expanding work on applications for use in Chinese hospitals after spotting an opportunity in the country's massive spending plan for healthcare reform.
  • The A-Z of Programming Languages: Erlang
    In this interview Erlang creator Joe Armstrong took some time to tell Computerworld about Erlang's development over the past 20 years, and what's in store for the language in the future.
  • Survey highlights SAP performance problems
    In a survey conducted last month, 90% of respondents reported monthly SAP performance problems.
  • Salesforce.com offering no-charge access to Force.com
    Salesforce.com is hoping to drive more interest from corporate developers and ISVs in its Force.com development platform by offering limited, no-cost access, the on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor announced Monday.
  • Twitter "twitpocalypse" affects iPhone apps
    The surging popularity of the Twitter messaging service has broken some or all of several Twitter client applications as a part of what is being called “the Twitpocalypse.”

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