TrustDefender provides a collaborative platform between the financial institution and the consumer. A German court recently ruled banks liable for online fraud losses. This ruling demonstrates the security state of a consumer’s PC is a key element in the whole security approach when doing online banking.

A Russian ISV, Excelsior LLC, focused on software development tools and the Java technology joins the Eclipse Foundation but remains tight-lipped about its upcoming Eclipse offering.

Snowtide Informatics Systems, Inc. announced that Zinio has licensed and deployed PDFTextStream, Snowtide’s PDF text and content extraction library. This deployment enables reliable full-text indexing and search over its massive digital magazine and publication distribution network. Zinio, the global online publishing and distribution services company, digitally distributes 20 million individual issues of 750 different magazines from 250 publishers to over 3.5 million readers each year.

The Talklets service, from Textic Limited, brings an added dimension to the Internet with automatic conversion of text to streaming audio.

Talklets is a Web 2.0 service that”voice enables’ text-based Web content. Talklets allows companies and organisations to offer website visitors the option to have text ‘read’ to them immediately in a range of natural voices, or converted to an MP3 file for consumption at another time, and on any compatible device.

DeRisk IT Solutions Private Limited (DeRisk IT) is launching a new operation in India, to introduce GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance) technology to the Indian market. Following the appointment of DeRisk IT as the new Authorized Partner in India by Achiever Business Solutions, DeRisk IT will also provide a broad range of IT services including: Security, Audit and Quality Assurance Solutions.

Is this the latest frontier for internet enterprise? Or just a momentary aberration by the technologically-inept?

The Register UK has come up with some interesting cases of people seeking "justice" on the internet.

Sun has released what it calls the storage industry’s first one terabyte tape drive in an effort to satisfy the explosive demand for storage capacity in data centres.

Sun says the StorageTek T10000B tape drive offers the highest per-cartridge capacity in the enterprise tape market. Users get 1TB (or 1,024GB) of native storage capacity on a single cartridge, with 120 MB/s throughput.

On his blog, Carl Tyler wonders, now that Websphere is the application platform of choice for IBM how the Domino side of the house will react to the change as he warns them to start learning Websphere now.

On his blog, Andy Donaldson discusses upgrading his Admin server to Domino 8.0.1.

More manufacturers are outfitting laser printers with technology that leaves microscopic yellow dots on each printed page to identify the printer’s serial number – and ultimately, you, says the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the leading watchdogs of electronic privacy.

The dots, invisible to the naked eye, can be seen using a blue LED light and are used by authorities such as the Secret Service to investigate counterfeit bills made with laser printers, says Lorelei Pagano, director of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group.