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September 8, 2008
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HOT NEWS | Today's Headlines
1. TOP NEWS STORIES
- Now available: Lotus Notes/iNotes and Domino
8.0.2
- Adding interactive features to Web content
- Developing widgets for IBM Mashup Center 1.0
- IBM and United States Tennis Association Go Green at the 2008 US Open
- NetworkWorld: Covergence bridges IBM, Microsoft unified communications
- IBM counters Microsoft's software seat-stealing boast: IBM/Lotus Notes
2. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND OTHER RELATED TECHNOLOGY NEWS
- Apple's new target: 12.8 million iPhones in 2008?
- Microsoft tries to reclaim Windows' image
- Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal
- Apple watchers spot 'iPod Nano' pix, iTunes hints
- FAA Flight-Plan System Has Long History of Problems
- RFID to track bottled gas in India
- Study finds midsize companies face difficult changes
- Researchers link instant messaging with virtual environments
- Solid-state drive sets speed record
- Fans get more bounce at 2008 US Open
- IBM Investing $360M in Cloud Computing Center
- R&D journal focuses on storage of electronic 'stuff'
- Canada to host top-20 supercomputer
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LEAD STORY
NOW AVAILABLE: LOTUS NOTES/INOTES AND DOMINO
8.0.2 | Lotus developerWorks
IBM Lotus Notes and Domino
8.0.2 includes significant performance
improvements
and iPhone support: (1) Provides greater flexibility for accessing mail and
calendar information through iNotestm Ultralite technology for the Apple
iPhone and Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook. iPhone users can access
email,
calendar, and contact information on the Apple iPhone through IBM Lotus
iNotes Ultralite. (2) Offers significant performance improvements,
starting up
about twice as fast as Notes
8.0.1, while maintaining memory requirements.
(3) Delivers Microsoft Office 2007 Viewers letting individuals view spread-
sheets, documents, and presentations created with Office 2007.
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss?DocURL=http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/897/ENUS208...
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OTHER HEADLINES
ADDING INTERACTIVE FEATURES TO WEB CONTENT | Lotus developerWorks
Learn how to create a Web content management portlet that lets users add
comments to a content item by using Lotus Web Content Management.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/wcm-interactive/
DEVELOPING WIDGETS FOR IBM MASHUP CENTER 1.0 | Lotus developerWorks
Learn about the widget programming model: IBM iWidget specification,
eventing
service, widget basics. Develop a widget that monitors memory usage of a
back-end server.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/mashups-widgets/
IBM AND UNITED STATES TENNIS ASSOCIATION GO GREEN AT THE 2008 US OPEN |
Lotus
IBM, the official technology partner of the US Open, and the United States
Tennis Association have teamed to offer exciting ways to help more fans than
ever experience the action of the 2008 US Open. With a new array of
personalized features including customized content and mobile alerts, the
USOpen.org site will help fans get closer to the action of the US Open in
ways not before possible.
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24991.wss
NETWORKWORLD: COVERGENCE BRIDGES IBM, MICROSOFT UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS |
Lotus
Covergence, best known for controlling, securing and managing real-time
services with its Covergence Session Manager, announced Monday that it is
upgrading its Covergence Collaboration Gateway (CCG) to support interoper-
ability between IBM Sametime 8.0 and Microsoft's unified communications
platforms. The company also introduced a subscription-based pricing
alternative to its CCG customers.
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/converg/2008/081108converge2.html
IBM COUNTERS MICROSOFT'S SOFTWARE SEAT-STEALING BOAST: IBM/LOTUS NOTES
CLAIMS HUGE WINS OVER MICROSOFT | Lotus
IBM/Lotus Thursday hit back at Microsoft's boast that it plans to steal 5
million Notes customers this year by detailing a new 300,000-seat licensing
deal with an Asian company and strong interest in Notes from emerging market
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/080108-lotus.html
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Apple's new target: 12.8 million iPhones in 2008? | CNN Tech
"And this is exactly what we’re going to try to do in 2008, our first full
year on the market. Is grab 1%% market share, and go from there." – Steve
Jobs,
Macworld 2007. There’s been a lot of confusion about what Jobs meant when he
set that sales target for the iPhone in January 2007.
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/
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Microsoft tries to reclaim Windows' image | CNET Tech
After years of letting Apple's attack ads go unanswered, software maker sets
out on difficult, costly journey of trying to take back control of what
Windows stands for.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10033746-75.html
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Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal | CNET
Association of National Advertisers announces it has sent a letter to
the top
antitrust chief for the U.S. Department of Justice, issuing its
objections to
the controversial Yahoo-Google search ad partnership.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10034530-93.html
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Apple watchers spot 'iPod Nano' pix, iTunes hints | CNET
The rumor mill has long been predicting a longer, leaner new version of the
iPod Nano, and now it's conjuring up some pictures.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10034328-37.html
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FAA Flight-Plan System Has Long History of Problems | eWeek
Investigations reveal that the FAA's 20-year-old, mainframe-based flight
plan
system has crashed several times in the last nine years. But a new, next-
generation system won't be online until the end of 2008 at the earliest.
Corrupt File Brought Down FAA's Antiquated IT System -- Computer Network
Crash Delays Flights at U.S. Airports
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/FAAs-FlightPlan-System-Has-History-of.../
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RFID to track bottled gas in India | IBM
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a Fortune 500 company that
refines and markets petroleum products in India, will use Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID) to track liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from plant to
consumer. The $2.2 million project with IBM will center on HPCL's plant
in Nashik.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2008/09/05/j301501j42486a75.html
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Study finds midsize companies face difficult changes | IBM
A new report from IBM finds that midsize companies face significant
challenges
with change, and they report a sizable gap between their need for change and
their past success in managing it. Titled 'The Enterprise of the
Future', the
study also shows that midsize companies are optimistic about growth
opportunities, especially in developing economies, and are rapidly adapting
their business models to become more competitive.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2008/09/05/z821340p63964j34.html
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Researchers link instant messaging with virtual environments | IBM
IBM researchers have linked Lotus Sametime, an instant messaging program,
with several virtual environments. Called "Sametime 3-D," the project
showcases what virtual environments can bring to the future of unified
business communications.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2008/09/04/s964169c56565m22.html
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Solid-state drive sets speed record | IBM
Engineers and researchers at the IBM Hursley development lab in England and
Almaden Research Center in California have set a record in storage speed,
outperforming the current rate by more than 250 percent. By combining Flash
solid-state technology and IBM's storage virtualization technology, the
researchers were able to transfer data at more than 1 million Input/Output
(I/O) per second.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2008/09/03/h532433j77630i97.html
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Fans get more bounce at 2008 US Open | IBM
Tennis fans are closer to the action than ever at the US Open, thanks to new
features at the
USOpen.org site. Interactive Draw, for example, allows fans
to track a favorite player through the draw and to switch to a specific
match
in real time with point-by-point scoring. Other features "push" scores and
other news to mobile devices or send text alerts for breaking news.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2008/09/03/o527421z81475y51.html
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IBM Investing $360M in Cloud Computing Center | eWeek
The newest IBM cloud computing center will be located at IBM's Research
Triangle Park facility in North Carolina and will allow IBM to offer a cloud
computing infrastructure and services to customers. IBM is investing $360
million to build a new cloud computing center in North Carolina that
promises
to deliver cloud services and infrastructure to a new range of customers.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Investing-360M-in-Cloud-Computing.../
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R&D journal focuses on storage of electronic 'stuff' | IBM
The electronic storage of data continues to grow exponentially. But as the
late George Carlin pointed out, having a lot of "stuff" brings its own
set of
challenges. The latest issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development,
now available online, focuses on hardware and software approaches that help
keep these repositories reliable and scalable, as well as ways to manage
storage and the energy needed to drive it.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2008/08/28/p608964w96775h04.html
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Canada to host top-20 supercomputer | IBM
The University of Toronto’s SciNet Consortium and IBM say they’ll build
Canada's most powerful and energy-efficient supercomputer. The machine is
expected to be among the top 20 fastest supercomputers in the world -- 30
times faster than Canada’s current largest research system. It will be
largest supercomputer outside the United States.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2008/08/15/m084718r50299a63.html
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