Yahoo Software Lands on Motorola Phones

Yahoo has now signed up the two biggest handset manufacturers to load its Yahoo Go for Mobile services on their phones after an announcement with Motorola this week.
 
Motorola said it will prominently feature Yahoo Go for Mobile which includes Yahoo Mail search address book and Yahoo Local on handsets worldwide starting the first half of next year. Motorola did not specify which handsets would get the feature but said it would distribute tens of millions of phones featuring Yahoo Go

New IBM Software Offers Constant Data Backups

Everyone knows they should back up their personal data files but almost no one does. So what if a piece of software just did it automatically and constantly?
 
IBM is hoping to take the guilt trip out of the backup process with their latest software the Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files which is aimed at the average user and automatically works quietly behind the scenes like antivirus software.

On Friday IBM announced that they would use Digital River Inc.

Lojack Now Locates Mac Notebooks

Vancouverbased Absolute Software released a Mac version of its Lojack for Laptops theftrecovery software.
 
Lojack which has long been available for Windowsbased portables surreptitiously contacts Absolute's monitoring center when the computer connects to the Internet. If the notebook is reported stolen or lost Lojack sends back the portable's current IP address and other networking information to Absolute. The company then works with local law enforcement to pinpoint the laptop's physical location and recover the system.

"Apple notebooks in particular have

IBM To Release Full Notes For Linux

IBM is making a full Notes client available for Linux a bit earlier than expected.

While IBM has long been an ardent Linux proponent and promised full support for Macintosh Linux and Windows clients in its next release codenamed Project Hannover the company has accelerated the Linux piece. A Notes client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update will be available on July with a version for Novell SUSE Linux Desktop for Enterprise version due within after that IBM

IBM To Support Xen Virtualization Software For Suse 10 Linux

IBM said it will support Novell's Suse Linux and Xen virtualization on its IBM's BladeCenter and other x hardware. It will also allow management of Xen virtual machines under its Virtualization Engine. That allows IBM customers to use familiar IBM management software to provision and manage multiple Xen virtual machines.
 
Xen can convert a lowcost Intel or AMD processorbased server into multiple virtual machines each running a separate application. As freely available open source code Xen is expected to

JasperSoft Launches JasperIntelligence

The BI platform which left beta this week comprises several products all of which have been upgraded to coincide with the latest release. The products are JasperAnalysis which provides online analytical processing for small and midsize businesses; JasperReports iReports and JasperServer.
 
JasperAnalysis new to the framework provides realtime analysis of large datasets officials with the San Francisco company said. The tool provides a graphical interface organizing information along different axes to identify trends anomalies and correlations within the data. Reports

Microsoft Pushes Back Office 2007 Release

Businesses waiting to get their hands on Microsoft's flagship Office software will have to wait a little longer now that the company has postponed delivery while it works out some kinks discovered in beta versions of the product.
 
Delays have become common practice with the software giant with the release of the muchhyped Vista operating system also being pushed back several times in recent months.

According to Microsoft the redesigned Office portfolio will be released to the public

Adobe's Flex platform now better positioned against AJAX

An update to Adobe&;s Flex rich Internet application development platform last week makes the technology less expensive to use and could make Flex more competitive with open source AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development systems.
 
Flex includes a number of free features such as the Flex SDK (software development kit). The real changes though are in pricing where Adobe is looking to reduce the cost of simple Flex deployments.

With Flex Adobe is permitting free single CPU deployments

Adobe releases Flash Player 9

Adobe on Wednesday announced the release of Flash Player . It&;s a free download for Mac        OS X and Windows operating systems.
 
Adobe claims that Flash Player runs up to times faster than before thanks to ActionScript and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM) that features a Just In Time (JIT) compiler.

Also new in this release is application runtime support for Flex an Internet application development platform also released Wednesday by Adobe. Flex &;

Software provides system recovery for Windows.

Avanquest Software a leading developer and publisher of business and consumer software for the global PC market with operations in Europe the U.S. and Asia today introduced its newest version of VCOM's system recovery solution for Windows. Recovery Commander rescues Windows PC users from inoperable or nonbooting systems and can typically restore the system to working order in less than five minutes while preserving valuable user data and applications.

The latest version of VCOM Recovery Commander offers enhanced tracking and recovery features

Adobe pumps up rich Internet apps with Flex 2

Looking to increase adoption of its Flex rich Internet application development technology Adobe Systems is releasing its Flex product line on Wednesday which features free versions and the ability to push data to clients.
 
With Flex enterprises would only begin paying as they scale up their applications. "We think this really changes the game significantly in the rich Internet application space" said Jeff Whatcott Adobe senior director of product marketing.

While the new tiered pricing strategy might be

IWay, AmberPoint Combine SOA Tools

IWay Software on Tuesday said it plans to combine its integration technology with AmberPoint's management software for serviceoriented architectures.
 
IWay owned by Information Builders said it plans to resell AmberPoint as part of its SOA Middleware Suite which provides integration among applications linked in an SOA distributed computing environment. An SOA uses XML standards and protocols in linking applications within an organization and with computer systems of partners and suppliers.

IWay's Middleware Suite includes an enterprise service bus for routing

Mega Microsoft Patches Fix Mac Office Bug

One of the two security updates that Microsoft released Tuesday for its Office suite applies not only to Windowspowered computers but also to Macs.

The bulletin labeled MS fixes a flaw in PowerPoint the presentation maker in Office that could let an attacker hijack a system by sending its user a speciallycrafted PowerPoint file.

To plug the hole Microsoft posted updates for Office for Mac (version ..) and Microsoft Office v. X for Mac.

Office for Mac .. also

Caringo Uses USB To Build Secure CAS Storage Appliance

Sun rolls out new storage products in data push

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday announced new data storage hardware and software offerings, broadening its focus on the fast-growing storage industry and aiming to build on its $4.1 billion acquisition of Storage Technology Corp.
 
Some of the products bring identity management to data storage -- essentially controlling who in a company has access to what -- while others aim at making data retrieval and management smarter and easier for its customers, which include financial services and telecommunications companies as well