Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions is a new feature in Lotus Notes 7.0.1 that integrates Lotus Notes and SAP, so you can perform some common SAP functions from within Lotus Notes, such as time reporting, vacation and leave requests, and so on. Developers can extend this new feature even further.

A new instant messaging worm installs a rogue Web browser called "Safety Browser" and hijacks the user’s Internet Explorer home page, experts have warned. The worm, dubbed "yhoo32.explr" by FaceTime Security Labs, was found two weeks ago on the Yahoo instant messaging network and was still active as of Friday. The worm drops the "Safety Browser" on the target’s machine. The rogue browser uses the same icon as Microsoft’s IE Web browser and, when opened, takes users to a site that installs spyware on the PC, FaceTime said. "This is the first recorded incidence of malware installing its own Web browser on a PC," the company said in a statement.

RightNow Technologies has decided to follow a buy rather than build strategy to expand its product line with the $9 million acquisition May 22 of on-demand sales automation competitor Salesnet of Boston. It is estimated that the Salesnet buyout would speed up the company product Customer Relational Management product development roadmap by more than a year. The combination also may help RightNow find new synergies between its existing service and marketing applications and Salesnet’s sales automation products.

2X announced the release of 2X ThinClientServer v3, which aims to solve the Windows desktop management hassles by controlling what Windows applications users can run via a small footprint, secure Linux desktop. 2X ThinClientServer deploys a Linux thin client OS with integrated desktop to PCs and thin client devices and allows administrators to centrally control not only the devices and connections, but also what Windows applications a user or group of users can run.

Third Brigade, a security software company that specializes in intrusion prevention systems, announced the deployment of its software by Workstream. An on-demand enterprise workforce management company, Workstream provides a range of hosted HR-related applications to a growing list of customers across North America. As a provider of hosted web-based applications for Human Resource departments, Workstream is focused on protecting its customers’ sensitive corporate and employee information used in the administration of functions such as recruitment, benefits, compensation and performance. Working with Third Brigade, Workstream customer information is effectively protected using proven, practical security approaches that ensure security of the sensitive data that is housed in the hosted environment.

NetworkStreaming announced the availability of its next generation software, SupportDesk 9. SupportDesk, NetworkStreaming’s PC remote control support software, allows tech support and help desk staff to connect to users’ PCs anywhere in the world in less than 10 seconds. The delivery of the software through an appliance, as well as the user-initiated session, provides better overall security and enables enterprises to remain compliant with Sarbanes Oxley regulations.

Technology and telecom managers are increasingly tied up keeping track of smartphones, personal digital assistants and other devices. Baseline’s Project Guide offers tips for managing and securing these devices.

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IBM announced new products for IT management and security as well as consulting services capabilities to help businesses address emerging cyber-threats and the need to reduce IT complexity. The new offerings are in response to growing demand from clients for secure industry standard computing that banishes the one size fits all proprietary approach of the past so that companies can more easily build service oriented architectures. The new IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances and SOA security consulting services can help business fend off threats from the estimated 85 percent of malware–including computer hacking, consumer identity theft crimes, viruses or other security vulnerabilities–that is motivated by illegal profits. The emergence of organized cyber crime, coupled with the necessity for organizations to comply with myriad government regulations that ensure security and privacy of client data, has made securing IT infrastructures through industry standard technologies critical for organizations of all sizes, and in all industries. New IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances–based on technology acquired from DataPower last year–are less than two inches tall and 19 inches wide and can be installed and configured in minutes to help avoid the aftermath of many of these cyber crimes that costs businesses billions of dollars in lost revenue, lost customers and lost employee productivity. These specialty devices are inserted into a client’s existing network to secure, manage and authenticate the validity of messages from various sources including Web transactions, RFID and other wireless devices up to 10 times faster than general purpose systems.

The GXE (Gorilla eXecution Engine) version 1.1 features the first UML (unified modeling language)-based application simulation tool to tightly integrate with IBM’s Rational Software Modeler and IBM Rational Software Architect tools. The GXE 1.1 expands the capability of the market-leading Rational Software Development Platform with an Eclipse plug-in for RSM and RSA modelers, allowing business analysts and software architects to create and run simulations with a simple keystroke. In addition to Rational products, the plug-in continues to support popular UML modeling tools within the Eclipse environment such as MagicDraw and Poseidon.