Ytria , provider of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino software tools, has announced a new development tool: ViewEZ. ViewEZ is a professional-grade development tool, allowing Notes professionals to oversee and update all views and columns throughout a Lotus Notes and Domino database. It reduces the development workload with time-saving features that are not available in the Domino Designer. Developers can use ViewEZ to change all view properties at once to ensure a consistent look in a database application, or update column properties and formulas across multiple views. It allows for "drag and drop" insertion/repositioning of columns across different views (even between databases), and provides columns sorted by properties for straightforward analysis.

Internet providers and telecommunications companies expressed concern on Wednesday about the feasibility of recording Americans’ online activities, a proposal that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has recently endorsed. In a meeting Friday first reported by CNET News.com, Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller said the war on terror would be aided by two years’ worth of data retention, a requirement industry representatives say would be accompanied by technical, security and privacy challenges.

For the past seven years, power management technology company ISR has been selling its SprayCool product to government agencies looking to reduce the heat generated by their servers. Now, with rising power and cooling costs becoming a growing concern among corporate data centers, the Liberty Lake, Wash., company is hoping enterprises will take to spraying a fine mist onto servers. ISR’s technology uses an inert liquid, dubbed SprayCoolant, to cool processors in a server and remove the heat from the system without letting it escape into the data center. The coolant evaporates once it hits electronic hot spots.

Hendrickson Software Components announced that Em@ilCRX, the company’s new software for email filtering, and spam source tracing and reporting, is available cross-platform for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Em@ilCRX uses a combined approach to filter email, doing a technical validation of the email to detect forgeries, allowing the email to be filtered by country of origin, along with a content-based filter supported by Regular Expressions, a challenge response system to validate clean email that is not a member of the user’s friends list, as well as a spam tracing and reporting tool.

The University of North Carolina Health Care System and IBM announced an advanced Web-based solution which allows over 7000 caregivers to access important medical data across in-patient and out-patient units and document patient care faster, easier and at reduced operating costs. This comprehensive, interoperable electronic health record system, called WebClinical Information Systems creates the foundation to securely deliver vital information anytime, anywhere via the Internet and has replaced the paper chart for almost one million patients who visit UNC Health Care annually. By using the IBM Health Information Framework, which is based on industry open-standards and a service-oriented architecture to connect information from disparate medical systems, the new UNC Health Care WebCIS solution gives caregivers secure, single sign-on to access multiple applications, including lab reports, medical imaging, patient phone call information, scheduling, health maintenance and disease prevention modules, electronic signature/referring provider communication and more.

HADSL is proud to sponsor the Irish Lotus User Group meeting on Friday June 16th in Dublin. Please note that this free event is proving to be extremely popular, and is filling up quickly. Whilst you may not actually be based in Ireland, this in no way prevents your attendance. As well as showing excellent content–all the listed speakers are Lotusphere veterans–this is an excellent networking event. More details can be found at the ILUG Web site.

Any job, like any relationship, has its difficult moments. With the job market heating up, the temptations to change partners are growing. As with any relationship, however, you really should assess the full value of what you’ve got before giving it up wholesale. Workplace experts Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman have identified several criteria in their book "First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently" you can use to measure whether your job is worth keeping or not, offering a useful guide in the form of 12 questions.

McAfee is readying new security software, code-named Falcon, to rival upcoming products from Symantec and newcomer Microsoft. The product will integrate features found in McAfee’s current range of security products with a revamped user interface to manage it, McAfee said in a statement Tuesday. Falcon will protect PCs against spam, viruses, spyware and other threats such as phishing scams and rootkits, McAfee said. It will also offer tools to prevent data loss, help optimize PC performance and secure a wireless network, it said. The product is slated to debut this summer in a variety of packages.

Linux software provider Red Hat issued a security advisory for a number of its products, addressing a series of kernel vulnerabilities in the operating system software. The company is distributing updated kernel packages meant to fix 16 individual flaws present in the version 4.0 releases of its Red Hat Desktop and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS software. The company advised that all Enterprise Linux 4 users should upgrade their kernels to protect themselves from the security issues, 10 of which the Red Hat Security Response Team rated as "important," and six of which it tabbed as "moderate."

In a radical departure from earlier statements, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said that requiring Internet service providers to save records of their customers’ online activities is necessary in the fight against terrorism. Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller privately met with representatives of AOL, Comcast, Google, Microsoft and Verizon last week and said that Internet providers–and perhaps search engines–must retain data for two years to aid in anti-terrorism prosecutions, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity.