Editors from eWEEK, CIO Insight, and Baseline put their heads together to name the 100 people who are having the most influence on IT–the people who are shaping the future of the way we use technology. Read on for a look at Nos. 1-25 on the list.

Buffalo Technology announced the latest addition to its high performance line of storage devices: the dual drive LinkStation Mini (LS-WS1.0TGL/R1). With its sleek, compact and light form factor, the new LinkStation Mini puts a massive 1TB in the palm of your hand while offering the same great features and protection that Buffalo’s NAS devices are known for. Buffalo will also soon offer a 500GB version of the LinkStation Mini.

The winners of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize were announced today and we’re pleased to finally be able to announce that own David Gewirtz’ ground-breaking investigative work into the national security flaws of the White House’s email infrastructure was accepted for consideration in the 2008 Pulitzer Letters competition. Our understanding is this was possibly the first time a technology-related book had been accepted as a Pulitzer Prize candidate.

David’s Where Have All The Emails Gone? didn’t win the big prize, but lost out in the end to The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander. Finalists in this category were The Cigarette Century by Allan Brandt and The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross.

We’re also pleased to announce that Where Have All The Emails Gone?, which has been holding in the Top 20 for more than three weeks, reached #1 last week for books on the Executive Branch at Amazon.com.

IBM announced new additions to its business events processing software portfolio, which allows business professionals to directly identify and analyze cause-and-effect relationships among events in real time to make proactive business decisions. Additionally, IBM announced a new Business Process Management (BPM) suite.

The new flagship software product, IBM WebSphere Business Events, is built on technology acquired from AptSoft in January 2008 and is designed to establish connections between events and identify possible opportunities and threats by automatically initiating a trigger when trends emerge.

IBM announced a new social network focused on advancing service oriented architectures (SOA). IBM’s SOA Social Network brings together a like-minded, global community of thought leaders, information technology (IT) and business professionals, university professors and students, and other interested parties through both online and in-person forums designed to help members build skills and share best practices.

At IBM’s IMPACT 2008 conference, the company unveiled its present and future strategy, products and services designed to gain a larger share of the $160 billion service oriented architecture (SOA) market while also reflecting on the milestones that have influenced the business and information technology (IT) community since the introduction of WebSphere ten years ago.

Kaspersky Lab, developer of Internet threat management solutions that protect against all forms of malicious software, announced the availability of Kaspersky Hosted Security Services (KHSS). Service Level Agreements guarantee highest quality performance to eliminate current and future threats before they are able to infiltrate the corporate network.

In 2007 alone the Kaspersky anti-virus lab detected more than 2 million new viruses, more than double from 2006. With at least five new malware attacks detected on the Internet every two minutes, that number is expected to double again in 2008. It is no longer cost-effective nor time well-spent for businesses of any size, to manage the first line of defense internally. With Kaspersky Hosted Security Services, Kaspersky’s anti-malware and anti-spam technology serves as the guardian at the gate, protecting data and infrastructure on a cost-efficient basis. Each Hosted Service is designed to ensure the integrity of company email, Internet use and IM communications.

Most of Nancy Hand’s really, really long calls involve calendaring. For whatever reason, people think the Notes calendar should do everything their secretary can, with the possible exception of making coffee.

Read this DominoPower article.

When it comes to protecting its base of coveted developer customers, IBM Rational is acting like an insecure suitor by suddenly disinviting potential rivals to its big party, according to a vendor that was asked not to attend.

At least one vendor, Genuitec, maker of the MyEclipse IDE (integrated development environment) has said an IBM official called its representative and told them Genuitec was not welcome at the Rational Software Development Conference this year. Another company, AccuRev, which markets software configuration management and other solutions that compete with Rational’s products, received a similar call. Both companies attended RSDC last year and exhibited in the event’s exhibit area.

To most people in the technology community "hacker" is a dirty word. Say hacker and most people instantly think of bad guys spreading viruses or breaking into corporate systems and stealing data.

Of course this is completely wrong. In fact, hacker should be a term of respect. But even more importantly, you should be careful about badmouthing hackers. That’s because there is a very good chance that you yourself are a hacker.