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HOT NEWS | Today's Headlines
1. TOP NEWS STORIES
- Lotus Notes Bulk Email with Personalized Greetings
- Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook
- Lotus Notes V8 workloads: Taking performance to a new level
- The History of Notes and Domino
- IBM Lotus Expeditor restricted workbench: The lockdown service and
associated
2. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND OTHER RELATED TECHNOLOGY NEWS
- Gloomy Forecast for IT Work Force
- Robot maker with a penchant for realism builds artificial boy
- Vonage ordered to pay Sprint $69.5 million in patent case
- Step Closer to Final Release: Windows Server 2008
- AOL co-founder backs new online payment firm
- Sophos Blocks Unauthorized Remote Connection Tools
- Cluster of video games maps brain
- Research grows into better healthcare
- Google's Apps Suite Gains Presentation Component
- The Malware Frontline
- The 20 Most Interesting Printers of 2007 (So Far)
- Apple Guru Dares Solution Providers to Dream
- 'Cell'ing up
- IBM offers free office software suite
- Foreign investment boosts jobs 20 percent worldwide
- 2007 looks like year of ‘malware’
- Computers take over signing duties for hearing impaired
- Computer models help business prepare for pandemics
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LEAD STORY
LOTUS NOTES BULK EMAIL WITH PERSONALIZED GREETINGS | DominoNews
You can now use your existing Lotus Notes mail system to send email blasts
such as newsletters, product alerts, etc. to your customers. IVE
Technologies
sells a Lotus Notes product called Print Merge Express which supports bulk
emailing, as well as, mail merge printing and graphical reporting
functionality. The tool allows you to send email blasts to specified
customer
email contacts in your Lotus Notes Personal Address Book or other Lotus
Notes
database. It will send one email per contact which is addressed in the "To"
field, so if you have 1,000 contacts then 1,000 individual emails will
be sent.
Optionally, you can personalize the salutation of the email such as
"Dear Mr. Smith,". The email blast can be sent immediately or scheduled
daily,
weekly, monthly with optional load balancing functionality. If you are
storing
your customer contacts in another system such as an Excel spreadsheet
you can
import them into the provided sample database which can then be used for the
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OTHER HEADLINES
LOTUS DOMINO ACCESS FOR MICROSOFT OUTLOOK | Lotus
IBM Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook delivers the leading
messaging,
calendar and scheduling, and personal information management services of
Lotus
Domino to Microsoft Outlook users. Organizations currently using Microsoft
Exchange for their messaging infrastructure can move to security-rich,
scalable and reliable IBM Lotus Domino server software, without changing
from
familiar client software on the desktop and without user retraining. Lotus
Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook can help improve user and organizational
productivity. It allows Microsoft Outlook users to benefit from the advanced
functionality of Lotus Domino server designed for high availability and low
total cost of ownership.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/dominoaccessmsoutlook/
LOTUS NOTES V8 WORKLOADS: TAKING PERFORMANCE TO A NEW LEVEL | Lotus
developerWorks
Learn about the IBM Lotus Notes/ Domino V8 enhancements to the
NotesBench and
Server.Load workloads. Three new workloads, N8Mail, N7Mail, and N8MailInit,
demonstrate the typical tasks of a Lotus Notes user interacting with a Lotus
Domino server. One of the ways to achieve a close-to-real-world view of a
Lotus Notes user is to closely mimic the API calls by the Lotus Notes V8 and
Lotus Notes V7 clients. The N8Mail and N7Mail workloads used to reproduce
those calls are completely new workloads with heavier transaction rates,
which means that the data is different from your previous R6Mail results and
that the results cannot be directly compared to each other. A future article
will provide a detailed performance comparison of Lotus Domino V8.0 and
Lotus
Domino V7.0 for the Notes client.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/notes8-workloads/
THE HISTORY OF NOTES AND DOMINO | Lotus developerWorks
Notes and Domino began in the work of Ray Ozzie, Tim Halvorsen, and Len
Kawell,
first on PLATO Notes at the University of Illinois and later on
DECNotes. Lotus
founder Mitch Kapor saw the potential in Ozzie's collaboration project
and the
rest is history. As you might expect of such complex and successful
software,
IBM Lotus Notes and Domino share a long and rich history. In some respects,
this history mirrors the evolution of the computing industry itself -- the
development and widespread adoption of PCs, networks, graphical user
interfaces, communication and collaboration software, and the Web. Lotus
Notes
and Domino have been there nearly every step of the way, influencing (and
being influenced by) all these critical developments. This article briefly
retraces the history of Lotus Notes and Domino, starting with the earliest
conceptual and development stages and continuing through major feature
releases. Along the way, it examines:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-NDHistory/
IBM LOTUS EXPEDITOR RESTRICTED WORKBENCH: THE LOCKDOWN SERVICE AND
ASSOCIATED NATIVE FUNCTION | Lotus developerWorks
Learn about IBM Lotus Expeditor restricted workbench and discover how to
prevent users from accessing applications and functions without specific
permission from the administrator. The IBM Lotus Expeditor restricted
workbench
is an alternate runtime mode that replaces the operating system shell and
prevents a user from accessing system applications and functions without
expressed permission from an administrator. The intent of the restricted
workbench is to limit a user's access to system operations to only those he
needs in order to perform his job.
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Gloomy Forecast for IT Work Force | eWeek
A growing lack of digital literacy, math and science skills may cost America
its global competitiveness. The topic was education and the talk was not
optimistic at the Institute for a Competitive Workforce's Sept. 25 workshop.
A part of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, ICW drew several hundred
participants
to its event, held with the goal of promoting effective and sustainable
business and education/work force partnerships. "Our continued leadership is
not inevitable and may not be sustainable," Fred Tipson, Microsoft's senior
policy counsel, said in an afternoon panel discussion focused on upgrading
the current and future work force's digital literacy and math and science
skills. "The question is whether our work force or some other country's will
be beneficiaries of new technology."
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Robot maker with a penchant for realism builds artificial boy | CNN Tech
There's his 18-month-old son Zeno, who prattles and smiles as he bounds
through
his father's cramped office. Then there's the robotic Zeno. It can't
speak or
walk yet, but has blinking eyes that can track people and a face that
captivates with a range of expressions.
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Vonage ordered to pay Sprint $69.5 million in patent case | CNET
Internet telephony company dealt another legal blow as a federal jury
orders it
to pay damages to Sprint Nextel for infringing on six patents. Sprint sued
Vonage in 2005, claiming the company was infringing on seven Sprint patents
that dealt with connecting Internet phone calls. Vonage denied the
claims and
argued that Sprint's patents shouldn't have been approved in the first
place.
Vonage said in a statement that it will appeal the federal court's verdict.
Vonage also said it will develop technological workarounds that don't
infringe
on Sprint's patents.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9784630-7.html
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Step Closer to Final Release: Windows Server 2008 | eWeek
Microsoft has just made the first release candidate for Windows Server
2008 and
a Community Technology Preview of Windows Server virtualization, code-named
Viridian, available to customers for download and testing. Windows
Server 2008
includes Viridian, a thin, hypervisor-based software virtualization
layer that
runs between the hardware and the server operating system.
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,a=215906,00.asp
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AOL co-founder backs new online payment firm | CNET
Steve Case, the founder of the AOL Internet service, is backing a new online
payment company that promises to let users transfer funds for free and
offer a
credit card with sharply lower fees for merchants. The new venture,
Revolution
Money, said it will let users transfer money to individuals and online
merchants for free through its Revolution MoneyExchange service. The payment
system is in a pilot stage. Revolution Money will go up against popular
online
payment systems such as industry leader PayPal from eBay and one offered by
Web-based retailer
Amazon.com.
http://www.news.com/AOL-co-founder-backs-new-online-payment-firm/2100-1038_3-6210049...
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Sophos Blocks Unauthorized Remote Connection Tools | eWeek
Remote connection tools like RealVNC and Radmin represent an end-run around
corporate usage policies, Sophos contends. Sophos added remote connection
tools to its list of blocked devices on its Sophos Endpoint Security and
Control, shutting a new window on threats, company officials said Sept. 25.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2188625,00.asp
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Cluster of video games maps brain | IBM
Four college students have devised a way to use a cluster of Sony
PLAYSTATION3
video game consoles, for large-scale modeling of the human brain. Their
design
won them first place – and $10,000 – in IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine
(Cell/B.E.)
Processor University Challenge.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2007/09/2007_09_25.html
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Research grows into better healthcare | IBM
A handful of research projects at IBM could shift the landscape of
healthcare
and life sciences. The projects focus on four specific areas: securing
patient
information even as it’s shared, sharing information among doctors for
better
diagnoses, speeding drugs to market and stemming the spread of pandemics.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2007/09/2007_09_25A.html
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Google's Apps Suite Gains Presentation Component | eWeek
This week, Google's Docs and Spreadsheets service picked up a Presentations
component. Will you soon be conducting all of your slide deck business
online?
Check out this eWEEK Labs walkthrough and judge for yourself.
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,a=215569,00.asp
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The Malware Frontline | eWeek
Go inside the SecureWorks Atlanta lab as researchers hunt and track the
latest
malicious code threatening users' systems.
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=25932&a=215643&po=1,00.asp?p=y
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The 20 Most Interesting Printers of 2007 (So Far) | eWeek
You might think that in a category as mature as printers, it would be
hard to
find a lot of interesting products in this year's crop. If so, you haven't
been paying close attention. In some cases the interesting part is
simply the
price (how does $300 for a color laser strike you?); in others, it's an
indication that a given feature is becoming more widespread (like
printing on
optical discs); and then there are cases of something that's actually
new and
different. Some printers in that last category are already available. Others
have just been announced, but offer so much promise that they demand mention
in any list of interesting products. Here's a look at 20 of the most
interesting.
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Apple Guru Dares Solution Providers to Dream | eWeek
Steve Wozniak urges ConnectWise attendees to make sure technology solves
real
problems and helps consumers. It's clear very quickly that Steve Wozniak is
the biggest dreamer in the room. Any room. "The more computers resemble real
people," the Apple co-founder said with uncharacteristic gravitas, "the more
attractive they are to people that want to learn and spend time with them
doing something that is a bit of a drag. We need to work on that."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2188210,00.asp
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'Cell'ing up | IBM
The Cell processor, made by IBM, powers Sony’s PLAYSTATION3 video game
system.
But the chip is finding new applications far beyond the game market. Some of
these new uses -- as well as the technology behind the Cell Broadband Engine
-- are the focus of the current issue of the IBM Journal of Research and
Development now available online.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2007/09/2007_09_21.html
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IBM offers free office software suite | IBM
IBM is releasing IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of software tools for
creating and
sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The tools can be
downloaded
at no charge.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2007/09/2007_09_19.html
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Foreign investment boosts jobs 20 percent worldwide
The U.S. and several European companies attracted the most investment
projects
from multinational companies in manufacturing, services and R&D last year,
according to a report from IBM. Worldwide, investment created 20 percent
more
jobs than the year before.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2007/09/2007_09_19.html
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2007 looks like year of 'malware' | IBM
The problem of malicious software or malware appears to be getting
exponentially worse. So far this year, IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS)
X-Force research and development team has identified more than 210,000 new
malware samples. That’s more than the team found during all of 2006.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2007/09/2007_09_18.html
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Computers take over signing duties for hearing impaired | IBM
Researchers at IBM in England have developed SiSi or Say It Sign It, a
system
that automatically converts the spoken word into British Sign Language
(BSL),
signed by an animated digital character or avatar. About 55,000 people
in the
UK use BSL as their first language.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2007/09/2007_09_13.html
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Computer models help business prepare for pandemics | IBM
A new service from IBM will help businesses model the potential economic and
social impact of a pandemic. With a model, businesses can prepare for and
react to potential crises.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2007/09/2007_09_13A.html
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