Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola of the U.S. District Court today denied a motion by the White House to reconsider his earlier recommendations and reaffirmed his recommendation that the court order the Executive Office of the President (EOP) to search individual workstations used between March 2003 and October 2005 and preserve any e-mails located on those workstations or on portable media used by EOP employees.

The Object Management Group (OMG) announced industry veteran, Jan Baan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cordys, will be the guest keynote speaker at the inaugural BPM Think Tank Europe 2008. BPM Think Tank Europe will be held November 11-12, 2008 at Vanenburg Castle, Putten, Netherlands.

You are invited to attend an Open Mic conference call on Sametime 8.0 Client Deployment. The one hour conference call will take place on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 11:00 AM EDT (03:00 PM GMT).

Tennis, randomly played, as the cause of server crashes? A new methodology in troubleshooting.

Moonwalk Inc. announced its Moonwalk 6.0 Software has been certified for compatibility with the Hitachi Content Archive Platform, giving customers new capabilities for managing the lifecycle of unstructured data across the enterprise.

Total Systems plc announced the signature of a contract with Capita Insurance Services. Capita has selected Total’s customer-centric insurance platform, Ultima, as their strategic platform for General Insurance.

Wick Hill has been named the first UK distributor for US company ArcSight, a provider of security and compliance management solutions that help organisations comply with regulatory policies and control security risks.

Compliance is becoming an increasing concern for many companies, with ever more regulations coming into force.

Andrei Kouvchinnikov has created a function in Sametime bot to translate text between languages using Google Translate. Now this bot functionality is available for everyone to test through STWidget-Sametime AJAX web client.

Lotus has released a hotfix to resolve about 16 bugs in the Traveler software.

Carl Tyler reports one of the Sametime developers has built a small command line utility for Admins to do some basic buddylist manipulation. You can download his new utility from here: http://www.epilio.com/web/BLcontrol.htm