We had just been told we had four months to test and implement Notes 5.0 for 3,000 users, I and was hyperventilating as I tried to explain to Dilbert what we were up against. The people on site were accustomed to opening their mail from any workstation that was handy, and now Notes wanted a "one user, one workstation" mode. Learn how Dilbert and I put our heads together to force Notes to work in our environment.

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A student who had allegedly spread a computer virus was convicted Friday of copyright infringement charges in a case that has highlighted the lack of laws in Japan to police malicious programs in cyberspace. Masato Nakatsuji, 24, a graduate student at Osaka Electro-Communication University, was suspected of spreading a virus by embedding it in an image from a Japanese animation film that he illegally copied and distributed over the Internet.

The virus he allegedly used, the "Harada virus," is one of Japan’s "Big Three" viruses, and Nakatsuji’s arrest, in January, was the first in Japan involving the making or spreading of viruses. Nakatsuji was found guilty in Kyoto District Court Friday and sentenced on the same day to two years in prison, suspended for three years, said a court official who requested anonymity because he was speaking for the court.

With IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.1, Lotus Domino added support for IBM Lotus Notes Traveler. Lotus Notes Traveler provides two-way, over-the-air synchronization between Lotus Domino servers and Microsoft Windows Mobile handheld devices. Lotus Notes Traveler synchronizes email, calendar, to-do, address book, and journal data in real time. The Lotus Notes Traveler server runs as a Lotus Domino server task and is installed on a server running Lotus Domino 8.0.1. The Lotus Notes Traveler server task uses the Lotus Domino directory to automatically look up and find Lotus Notes users.

The IBM Lotus Notes 8.0.1 Client includes features from Lotus Expeditor 6.1.2 Client for Desktop. To conserve resources on the Lotus Notes 8.0.1 client, not all Lotus Expeditor features are included in Lotus Notes 8.0.1. This limitation means that developers who build software components that run on Lotus Notes 8.0.1 and require these features must install them onto Lotus Notes 8.0.1. This article explains the additional features that you can install onto Lotus Notes 8.0.1, the procedure to do so, and the support that you receive from IBM.

For many years, the Internet was the "final frontier," operating largely unregulated–in part because of the jurisdictional nightmare involved in trying to enforce laws when communications crossed not just state lines but also national boundaries. That was then; this is now.

Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state, and federal levels. You might be violating one of them without even knowing it.

The groundbreaking move by federal authorities to indict a Missouri mother on charges connected to the suicide of a 13-year-old MySpace user has sent a strong message to the online world: Internet impostors may be prosecuted. "The Internet is a world unto itself. People must know how far they can go before they must stop," FBI official Salvador Hernandez said Thursday as prosecutors unveiled a case that employs laws usually used against hackers to go after the alleged perpetrator of a false-identity hoax.

Lori Drew, 49, of suburban St. Louis, Missouri, was charged with conspiracy and fraudulently gaining access to someone else’s computer. She allegedly helped create a MySpace account in the name of someone who didn’t exist to convince young neighbor Megan Meier she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans. Megan hanged herself at home in October 2006, allegedly after receiving a dozen or more cruel messages, including one stating the world would be better off without her.

IBM and Research In Motion are taking mobile work far beyond email by delivering to mainstream business professionals the full line of Web 2.0-powered IBM Lotus collaboration software and information on demand on the BlackBerry platform.

The joint initiative enables customers to securely manage their communications, contacts and schedules and collaborate and network through social software, all from within the familiar, intuitive interface of their BlackBerry smartphones. This includes the general availability of the new BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections, IBM’s social software for business, at a time when eMarketer forecasts that mobile social networking will grow from 82 million users in 2007 to over 800 million worldwide by 2012.

IBM and Research In Motion announced IBM’s new hosting capabilities to support the BlackBerry platform. IBM has also joined the BlackBerry System Integrator (SI) Alliance Program.

IBM will expand its portfolio of Managed Wireless Services for the BlackBerry platform, leveraging its already successful services offering that currently hosts more than 100,000 enterprise end users globally. The offering builds upon the strength of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server product line with a far-reaching suite of services that include hosting, consulting, systems integration, and deployment of enterprise applications on the converged platform.

In the Warner Bros. cartoons, the Road Runner dashed across a vast desert landscape continually outmaneuvering its archrival, Wile E. Coyote, thanks to incredible speed and quick thinking.

IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer will also find a home in a desert landscape–Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico–and will also rely on speed and quick thinking, or in this case calculations, to keep ahead of its competition. The massive system is poised to become one of the world’s fastest high-performance computers, according to IBM officials.

What makes a work space terrible? Is it the gray-beige color scheme, the industrial-grade carpet, or the chipped Formica desks and fluorescent lights? Or is it the opposite, when a company is so desperate to keep up with the Googles that they try a little too hard–filling the offices with ping-pong tables, plastic toys and a few too many "chill-out rooms" for most grown-ups’ comfort?

Valleywag, a tech gossip blog, on the heels of choosing The Best Workplaces in Tech, set out to find the ten worst, topping the list with Yahoo’s New York offices, replete with employees sleeping uncomfortably in some cubes and the curious use of white-picket fences around others.