This article presents an example of a customized team place component for IBM Lotus Quickr services for WebSphere Portal, Photo Book. This component uses both a Lotus Quickr document library for storing content and for rich desktop integration and Lotus Web Content Management capabilities for presentation on the Web with photo gallery and slideshow-style presentations.

Hewlett-Packard said it plans to slash 24,600 jobs over the next three years, nearly 8 percent of its work force, as it combines operations with Electronic Data Systems, the technology-services company it recently acquired.

The cuts represent the Palo Alto-based company’s most aggressive move yet to streamline its operations under Chief Executive Mark Hurd, who engineered the $13.9 billion acquisition to challenge IBM for more of the lucrative, long-term business of helping companies manage their computing infrastructure.

From one week to the next we see conflicting reports of whether IT salaries are up, or down. Here, we have two conficting reports on the same day. eWeek is reporting that database professional salaries are on the rise; While the eWeek Careers blog by John Hazard and Don Sears reports that payfor tech jobs is low.

Currently, many tools have been developed to create composite applications such as IBM Lotus Domino Designer, IBM Lotus Component Designer, and IBM Rational Application Development. This article introduces a new way to create composite applications in IBM Lotus Notes 8 using IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory.

Written references could become old hat for hiring managers with one in five saying they use social networking sites to research job candidates–and a third of them dismissing the candidate after what they discover.

A survey by online job site CareerBuilder.com of 3,169 hiring managers found 22 percent of them screened potential staff via social networking profiles, up from 11 percent in 2006. An additional nine percent said they don’t currently use social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace to screen potential employees but they do plan to start.

What Web-based information storage services and Locket, a portable USB flashdrive, have in common is that both are easy to use and more practical than old-school manual filing systems, which can be a challenge to keep organized and up-to-date. Locket was carefully designed with one critical top benefit in mind–to be a self-contained portable program that is completely safe. All of the data and commands needed to operate Locket are securely stored on the flashdrive. When you need to move fast, you simply have to grab and go with your Locket. You can view, add, change, and print your information securely–from any computer–without an Internet connection.

Locket is designed to be intuitive and user-friendly even for those with the most basic computer skills. The initial log-on screens will walk you through the process of creating your password. Once your password is set, and encrypted (or matched to your flashdrive), you can immediately begin using Locket.

Countless federal records are being lost to posterity because federal employees, grappling with a staggering growth in electronic records, do not regularly preserve the documents they create on government computers, send by email and post on the Web.

Federal agencies have rushed to embrace the Internet and new information technology, but their record-keeping efforts lag far behind. Moreover, federal investigators have found widespread violations of federal record-keeping requirements.

Many federal officials admit to a haphazard approach to preserving email and other electronic records of their work. Indeed, many say they are unsure what materials they are supposed to preserve.

The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment. The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional, The Washington Post reports.

Justice G. Steven Agee, who has since moved to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, wrote the unanimous opinion for the court. "The right to engage in anonymous speech, particularly anonymous political or religious speech, is ‘an aspect of the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment,’ " Agee wrote, citing a 1995 U.S. Supreme Court case.

At Black Hat last month, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder made it clear that Private Browsing would not make it into the next revision of Firefox.

But on Friday, the open-source group all but announced that the privacy feature, which puts the browser into a temporary state where no information about the user’s browsing session is stored locally, will definitely make it into Firefox 3.1 due sometime next month. Why the sudden time line change? Welcome to Browser War 2.0.

Large-scale data losses and thefts have been cropping up alarmingly often in both national and international headlines recently. Whether it involves the authorities losing citizens’ data or companies whose mission-critical and confidential information ends up circulating freely on the Internet, any kind of data loss has devastating consequences. In this important article, Andreas Richter looks at various methods Domino administrators might use to increase Domino email security through encryption.

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