TOTAL Recall allows Lotus Notes mail users to delete copies of a sent message. If a mail user sends an email to the wrong person or simply decides to cancel it, they now have the ability to click a single button to recall the message. TOTAL Recall supports recalling messages between internal Lotus Notes mail users. The mail user simply selects an e-mail in their "Sent" view, then clicks the "Recall" button.

Some big names in the computer industry are pledging to make the development of desktop applications for the Linux operating system much easier than it has been. Adobe Systems, IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Novell, RealNetworks and Red Hat are all backing the new Linux standards effort led by the Free Standards Group. The nonprofit organization plans to marshal its resources to form standards for key components of Linux desktop software, including libraries, application runtime and install time.

Cisco Systems has taken a key step to ensuring that spyware, viruses, and worms can’t infiltrate a corporate network. Cisco announced that it has added software to its Ethernet switches and wireless products that fit into its NAC (Network Admission Control) framework, which keeps networks safe by controlling which devices gain access to a network. Specifically, the NAC technology will be embedded in its switches and wireless gear. The new software will allow network access only to trusted end-point devices such as laptops, PCs, and PDAs.

Cybercriminals are spreading a malicious Trojan horse under the guise of an update to Skype. The Trojan horse, a variant of IRCbot, arrives in an e-mail purporting to be an update to Skype, the popular Internet telephony application. Once opened the malicious software displays a phony installation error message. It then blocks access to security updates and installs a back door on computers.

Current anti-virus technology provides only sparse protection against the kinds of threats that Internet users face today. For more than a decade, anti-virus software has been a pillar of enterprise security programs. But times are changing. The explosion of current online threats could unseat traditional anti-virus technology and the companies that sell it from the front lines of computer defenses as users turn to more proactive technologies, experts say.

Borland Software has acquired Legadero, a small, privately held company, to fill out Borland’s line of software development tools. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. With the purchase of the 20-person company, Borland will gain a set of so-called IT governance applications for managing software development projects. Borland intends to immediately rebrand the Legadero products as Borland Tempo and integrate the company’s software with its own suite of application lifecycle tools.

The international conspiracy to fix memory prices uncovered in 2002 was real after all. Samsung, the world’s biggest memory maker, has agreed to pay $300 million and plead guilty for conspiring with others to fix prices on Dynamic Random Access Memory, or DRAM, the most common form of memory found in computers. Hynix, another South Korean memory manufacturer, earlier pleaded guilty and paid a $185 million fine. Germany’s Infineon Technologies also admitted to DRAM price fixing and paid a fine, although other defendants remain. Samsung’s fine is the second-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history and the largest criminal fine since 1999.

Veritas issued a patch for a security flaw in its Java authentication service running on NetBackup servers and clients. The vulnerability in question could let malicious attackers gain remote access to information stored on backup servers. For Veritas, owned by security-software giant Symantec, this latest flaw in its backup software is the third occurrence in less than four months. In this most case, however, the vulnerability not only affects the server but also users’ clients.

The SOA Leaders Council, the industry’s largest peer-to-peer community of corporate and government SOA end-users, announced their findings from the surveys it conducted at its last regional chapter meetings, indicating the continued rapid growth of corporate adoption of services-based applications. The SOA Leaders Council also announced upcoming chapter meetings in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, London, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. Out of more than 200 members in attendance at SOA Leaders Council meetings in June and July of 2005, more than seventy-two percent reported that they currently have a services-based application in production. Another twenty-two percent expect to have SOA systems in production by the middle of 2006. Organizations with production SOA applications had, on average, 25.1 staff members working in some capacity on their SOA initiatives and had built 41.5 services at the time the survey was conducted.

The CertFX.com IBM Lotus Notes Domino 7 Application Development Update practice test contains more than 75 questions which model the same areas of competency as those tested on the real certification exam. A supplemental "Teach" information section is also provided for each question, which substantiates the answers and supplies further detail. Additionally, the CertFX practice test provides direct links to the Domino 7 Designer Help Database and Notes 7 Help database. All CertFX tests include a pass guarantee, unlimited use, lifetime maintenance, and free upgrades.