Employees can pose security threats to your enterprise IT infrastructure through mobile devices such as smartphones and laptops, as well as the various networks and applications with which their unsecured devices are liable to interact. Enterprise IT administrators, network administrators, and enterprise security workers and consultants should be aware of these security risks.

Integra Quick Reports, a tool for end-users to integrate Lotus Notes with Microsoft Word and Excel, has announced Virtual Field Mapping functionality. This enhancement increases the usability and enables the delivery of more complex ad-hoc reports, Word mail merges and Excel exports without the need to escalate to a developer.

"Integra Quick Reports’ new Virtual Field Maps allows a developer or super-user to configure a set of virtual fields with easy to use names which relate to specific physical fields. These virtual fields can also contain a Notes formula including but are not limited to a lookup. For instance, choose the Virtual Field called MyManager and Integra Quick Reports runs a lookup to define who the manager of the current user is," explained John de Giorgio, CEO, Integra for Notes.

Google has nothing on open source when it comes to potential competitive threats to Microsoft, according to Redmond’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie.

Ozzie fielded a number of questions on his role at Microsoft and the company’s evolving technology strategies during an appearance at the Sanford Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference on May 28. Ozzie reiterated that it often takes a strong competitor to truly galvanize Microsoft.

Delldeceived customers in a massive "bait and switch" scheme to increase sales of its computer and electronic products, a New York state judge ruled Tuesday. State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued Dell in 2007 on behalf of hundreds of customers who claimed that the electronics company lured them into buying products with promises of attractive deals and promotions.

In reality, the lawsuit alleged, most customers were denied or misled into believing that they had been approved for low interest or financing rates. The lawsuit also accused Dell of depriving customers of technical support that they were entitled to, in some instances, by pressuring them into performing repairs on their own or subjecting them to long wait times on the phone. In a 26-page decision, Supreme Court Justice Joseph C. Teresi found in favor of the consumers.

It’s possible that someone has been reading your emails, listening to your phone calls, and tracking your Internet use. No, it’s not a foreign spy. It’s not even your ex–it’s your employer. And she doesn’t even need to tell you she’s doing it.

Employers can legally monitor their workers however they want. They can log and review all computer activity as long as they own the machines. The most popular method of keeping tabs on employees is to track Internet use: A whopping 66 percent of companies monitor employee Internet activity, according to a survey released in February by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute.

What are they looking for? Frequent visits to sexually explicit sites, game sites, and social-networking sites like Facebook on company time. Almost a third of those who said they monitor their employees have fired someone for inappropriate Web surfing.

In this helpful article, Doug Robinson has put together an article on managing the "from" address of email messages, both to force an Internet address, but also to easily send from multiple email addresses through creating multiple location docs.

Read this DominoPower article.

Hewlett-Packard edged out IBM in both worldwide server revenue and shipments in the first quarter of 2008 as businesses bought x86-based systems to help build out Web data centers and emerging market countries continued to invest in their infrastructure, according to a May 22 report from Gartner.

In the first quarter, HP’s server revenue topped $4 billion, narrowly placing the company ahead of IBM, which had revenue of about $3.9 billion, an increase of only 2 percent, according to the Gartner survey. For years, IBM had been beating out all other competition in terms of system revenue, but HP has made up significant ground in the last several quarters.

We’ve been covering the White House email story, and now we’ve found a fascinating article written by one of the plaintiffs in the case against the White House. In The White House:Off Limits to Historians?, National Security Archive general counsel Meredith Fuchs discusses presidential records from a detailed, historian’s perspective. This is a fascinating article and a recommended read for anyone who’s been following our story.

Worried your boss is reading your email at work? Your worst fears may be real. Of 301 large U.S. companies surveyed 41 percent say they hire staff to read and analyze outgoing mail. The numbers come from Proofpoint’s annual Outbound Email and Data Loss Prevention survey which conducted the study this past March of U.S. companies with 20,000 plus employees.

Among the businesses surveyed 44 percent said they investigated a suspected email leak of company secrets, 26 percent said they fired people for violating email policies. So much for privacy.

Of all of the health threats workers deal with in sedentary, computer-facing jobs–carpal tunnel, eye strain and backaches–there is one that gets far less attention: waist expansion.

In fact, according to a new study by CareerBuilder.com, 34 percent of IT workers said they have gained more than 10 pounds in their current jobs, while 17 percent say they’ve gained at least twice that.

It could be worse–these employees could work in financial services or government, where 53 percent and 52 percent of workers respectively told CareerBuilder they’d gained weight in their current positions.