Wikis and Web logs (blogs) make a big impact on the Web, but they can also be useful in an enterprise. A community is a group of people with common interests, goals, or responsibilities, such as a project team or an interest group. Combine wikis and blogs with existing collaborative tools to enhance the productivity and effectiveness of enterprise teams.

IBM opened a new global delivery center in Shanghai, China, to address the growing global demand for the delivery of application services. The center will offer IT services in English, Japanese, Mandarin, and German, to clients from Japan, Europe and North America. The Shanghai Center builds on IBM’s experience in the timely delivery of quality IT services for business application development, maintenance, testing and solution management. Leading package solutions, such as SAP, Oracle, Siebel, mainframe and e-business applications will also be supported through the center.

A do-it-yourself malware creation kit is being hawked on a Russian Web site for less than $20, according to security researchers tracking the seedier side of the Internet. Virus hunters at SophosLabs discovered the spyware kit, called WebAttacker, on a Web site run by self-professed spyware and adware developers. The kit is available for sale directly from the site, which even offers tech support to buyers. The WebAttacker kit includes scripts that simplify the task of infecting computers and spam-sending techniques to lure victims to specially rigged Web sites.

If you wanted to sum up what’s new in this latest release of Linux, you could say that it’s a Linux for high-end enterprise users. However, this kernel is also the first one to support Toshiba, Sony, and IBM’s CELL processor, which is best known as the chip that will power Sony’s forthcoming PlayStation 3 game console.

Funeral services for Paul A. Flaherty, 42, the computer engineer who developed key inventions for the Alta Vista search engine, were held Friday in Menlo Park, CA, not far from the former Digital Equipment Lab where the pioneering search engine was launched. Flaherty died March 16 of a heart attack at his home in Belmont, Calif.

Enterprises searching for the answers to their security problems should increasingly take a closer look at their internal operations before blaming outside threats, according to experts participating in an online IT security conference. Speaking as part of Ziff Davis Media eSeminars’ Security Virtual Tradeshow, industry watchers conceded that applications such as email clients, file-sharing systems and instant messaging platforms continue to pose serious problems for those people charged with protecting corporate IT networks and information.

IONET Ltd has released their FT Search Manager–a low cost search database that allows you to simultaneously search multiple Notes databases using Field Level Queries. You can search local and/or server-based databases, save searches, search within results, customize search results per database etc. In addition, no new searchable indices need to be built, searching conforms to standard Notes security, and the Notes Client is able to perform other tasks while searching. The product can be fully set-up within 10 minutes.

Just in case you think your tech support hassles are bad.

Companies are responding less to customer email, despite the potential for losing business, a market research firm said. Since 2000, the number of Web sites responding to emailed queries within a day has decreased to only 45 percent, JupiterResearch said in a report. In addition, the number of companies taking three days or longer, or not responding at all to customer email, grew 7 percent year over year from 2000 to 2005 to 39 percent. While 92 percent of Web sites offered email as a customer support option, only 41 percent acknowledged receipt of a message with an automated email response. Failing to maintain a high level of responsiveness is increasing the likelihood of losing customers, particular if they become angry over unanswered emails, JupiterResearch analyst Zachary McGeary said.

A quartet of suspected email scammers–three of them Nigerian citizens–could face scores of years in prison if convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday. A grand jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., on charged Nnamdi Chizuba Anisiobi, Anthony Friday Ehis, Kesandu Egwuonwu and another unnamed defendant with one count of conspiracy, eight counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud. Anisiobi also faces one count of bank fraud. According to the Justice Department’s charges, New York-based victims of the email scams lost more than $1.2 million to the fraudsters.