Notes-to-Exchange migration tool gets Microsoft Exchange Online support
Binary Tree has now updated its widely used systems administration tool for migrating users from IBM Lotus Notes to the more prevalent Microsoft Exchange messaging system. The new CMT Universal 2.7.1 supports not just on-premises editions of Exchange, but also Exchange Online, a component of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).
The new version of CMT Universal was pre-released for some specific customer engagements, including a migration by Goldleaf Financial Solutions. The update has already been used to migrate more than 100,000 users to BPOS. The latest release of the software also brings refinements to the e-mail and calendaring systems, such as a new capability that lets users tell the difference between calendar entries created in Microsoft Outlook and migrated calendar items.
Maryland city under blogger siege, says outgoing mayor
Salisbury, Maryland is not small-town rural America in the traditional sense. The college town stands in the middle of the Delmarva peninsula, halfway between an urban sprawl of Atlantic beachside resorts and miles of farmland, acting as a waypoint for travelers bound for Ocean City, Rehoboth, and Dewey Beach.
It is also, according to the city's mayor, a "city under siege" by bloggers.
Twitter folk preyed on (again)
Abuse of Twitter users is getting to be such a regular thing than a wiser journalist would write a macro for the story, though for once they're not being duped into revealing their passwords. That said, Rik Ferguson at Trend Micro is reporting today that a site sharing a name with a brand-new iPhone application for the popular microblogging service has a nasty little malware payload waiting for the unwary.
The application, TweetFollow, was released just last week. It is safely available from its developers at b1te.com, as well as from Apple's apps store. It is not, however, available from tweetfollow.com, which instead has a JavaScript infection called, in Trend Micro parlance, JS_IFRAME.AKK. The domain was registered on December 31, 2008 to John Dennis of Netus Group, with whom Betanews has left a message requesting clarification concerning a) how the site is connected to the TweetFollow application and b) why the site has JavaScript cooties. We'll keep you posted.
Swedish dread over looming IPRED copyright law
TorrentFreak and other peer-to-peer-interested sites are taking a hard look at a controversial law that will make it easier for copyright holders to get personal information on people they claim are infringing on their rights. Despite massive public disapproval, rules based on the EU's Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) goes into effect on Wednesday, April 1. (No fooling.)
The law, which permits the rights holders to petition the court for the names of people associated with IP addresses via which infringement is alleged to have occurred, will also increase penalties and eventually criminalize large-scale infringement. In a recent poll, 48% of Swedes said they believe the new law is wrong, with just 32% approving. More memorably, Rikard Falkvinge, chairman of Sweden's Pirate Party and co-leader of the Facebook protest, castigated the digital literacy of the legislation's authors, telling TorrentFreak that "These laws are written by digital illiterates who behave like blindfolded, drunken elephants trumpeting about in an egg packaging facility."
Discovery says it thought of the Kindle first, wants royalites
Discovery Communications, best known for its Discovery Channel cable network and related retail stores, is also the holder of a rather comprehensive e-book patent filed nearly ten years ago. The company has taken legal action against Amazon.com for infringing upon that patent with its popular Kindle e-reading device.
The patent (#7,298,851) was granted in November 2007 to Discovery founder John S. Hendricks, and includes everything from the content delivery method (both through the Internet and through a connection to Cox cable box for video) all the way down to the operating system of the reading device (Menus include virtual shelves labeled "books in your library," and "books you can order.") Page 26 of the patent also includes a method of printing books on demand.
Cisco's servers should stay away from HP and IBM, analysts say
In unveiling Cisco's long rumored Unified Computing System (UCS) data center initiative on Monday, Cisco CEO John Chambers said that while he "respects" Cisco's newfound competitors in the server market, they have created "silos" in the data center.
Later in the 90-minute event, Gary Moore, Cisco's senior VP for advanced services, took pains to maintain that Cisco's new architecture can be integrated to interoperate with "legacy systems." Moore said customers have been telling Cisco, "Don't make me throw away my investment, or I'm not going to go to you!"
The heat is on: Latest Google Chrome closes the gap with Safari 4, Firefox 3.1
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For the first time in...forever, speed and efficiency are becoming factors in determining the quality of Windows-based Web browsers, in a race for excellence that has never been this competitive. Last week, when we tested the five leading Windows-based development browsers, what was then the latest version of Google Chrome scored a solid second place in speed and performance tests on the browsers' respective JavaScript interpreters. Apple's Safari 4 for Windows was out front and pulling away, and the new Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 was making it a three-way battle.
Adobe results weak, but makes its Q1 targets
The first quarter of 2009 was, as predicted two weeks ago, soggy for Adobe Systems, which on Tuesday reported revenue of $786.4 million for the period ending February 27. That's under the company's original Q1 estimate of $800-$850 million, but a shade above the revised prediction of $783-$786 million.
According to president and CEO Shantanu Narayen, demand for CS4 continues weak, though awareness and interest in the product family is still high. (Random fact: Suites account for 68% of CS4 revenues.) To attempt to convert that interest to sales, the company said it will extend its introductory pricing on CS4 until April 30.
Google releases new 2.0 beta of Chrome browser
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Today, Google has made the latest beta of Chrome available for download, promising a 25%-35% speed boost over the latest stable version, and speeds nearly double that of the original Chrome beta, according to two Google benchmarks.
Apple totally turns iPhone 3.0 into a game platform
The iPhone's operating system has secured the fourth-largest share of the global smarphone OS market, and has been increasing fourfold annually. While it has won the hearts of many, it has done so despite a prominent lack of certain built-in functions. The "Top 8" of these absent features are: MMS support, Adobe Flash support, video recording, Bluetooth modem tethering, push notifications, SMS forwarding, background applications, and -- an old favorite among the Mac faithful -- cut-and-paste.
While cut-and-paste functionality, and roughly four of the top eight needed functions were indeed added, they were piled under no less than a dozen other new abilities intended to advance videogaming on iPhone.
US Defense Dept. goes public with some open source plans
As a next step in open source, the DoD is teaming up with the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) on a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) that will allow over 50 federal administration applications to be publicly distributed under an open source license.
In a presentation at John Hopkins University on Monday, DoD officials said that, under the deal, users in other federal agencies -- along with state and local government, and the general public -- will be able to reuse code developed by the agency's Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for its Corporate Management Information System (CMIS).
The end of the PC pothole, for everyone but Apple
The news from the latest NPD report on PC retail unit sales in the US last month was surprisingly very upbeat, for nearly all manufacturers but one. If you were to place a flat two-by-four stretching across the PC unit sales figures for February 2009 over to February 2008, you'd find the incline tips down...toward the older year. Windows-based PC unit sales rose by a fabulous 22% annual rate, NPD estimates, although the firm is declining to provide exact numbers to the press.
If you walked across that two-by-four, though, you'd want to avoid falling into the deep chasm that was the fourth quarter of last year.
After years in eclipse, fresh L0phtCrack version released
A Windows password-auditing tool acquired by Symantec only to be shelved when the lawyers got a look at the thing has been re-acquired by its original authors, who have released a long-awaited Version 6 to the public. L0phtCrack languished for years after the company decided that the tool, popular with hackers, could raise liability issues.
Once upon a time, Mudge, Dildog, and Weld Pond released L0phtCrack, which can be used as a password-auditing tool or, if you're playing offense, a tool for cracking passwords on systems not belonging to you. In 2000, the Boston-based L0pht Heavy Industries hacker collective (est. 1992, and famous for telling Congress they could take the Internet down in 30 minutes) morphed into @stake, becoming a marginally more mainstream security consultancy. In 2004, Symantec acquired @stake.
Not to be outdone by Cisco, Dell launches Xanadu II servers for clouds
With Sun and newly initiated server market competitor Cisco also rolling out data center servers this week, Dell has made its own announcement of XS-23 II servers, formerly codenamed Xanadu II. Dell launched the new high-end x86 servers on Monday in celebration of the second birthday of Data Center Solutions (DCS), a division producing servers aimed at easy customizability for cloud computing and other data center applications.
Forrest Norrod, Dell's VP and general manager of DCS, contended today that DCS "isn't a one-size fits all approach." Dell's new XS-23 servers, for example, come with a choice of several different processors, including the new Intel Nehalem chip that will also show up in Cisco's first servers, although those machines will be offered in blade configurations with a built-in fabric architecture.
Microsoft in an IP deal with manufacturer that brought DMCA case
Early this afternoon, Microsoft and printer maker Lexmark jointly announced that they had entered into a cross-licensing agreement, which gives both companies access to each other's portfolios. Their statement basically said that such agreements are necessary in tough economic times, in order to shorten their own development lifecycles.
Conceivably, Microsoft could use this deal to craft better printer drivers for Windows, especially drivers that are capable of testing such statistics as cartridge fluid level, without relying on printer manufacturers to craft the software for themselves. Notoriously, Lexmark's biggest competitor Epson produces its own printer drivers, but to this day has yet to resolve issues concerning its photo printers and 64-bit Windows Vista.
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