Hi, David here again. Yesterday, I made a shameless plea for readers to buy Where Have All The Emails Gone? and help move it from #26 on Amazon’s list of best-selling books on the Executive Branch to #25.

Well, you rock! I woke up this morning to find it had moved to #20! You’ve put the book into the Top 20 and that’s just really cool! Of course, Amazon recalculates sales constantly, so I don’t know how long it’ll stay at #20, but still, this definitely gives me bragging rights for the radio interview I’m doing Wednesday morning (details to follow later today when I find out myself).

This is a big Thank You to everyone! And now, I return you to James and our normal news coverage.

Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing emails from 2003 to 2005. The White House revealed new information about how it handles its computers in an effort to persuade a federal magistrate it would be fruitless to undertake an email recovery plan that the court proposed.

It has been the goal of a White House Office of Administration "refresh program" to replace one-third of its workstations every year in the Executive Office of the President, according to the declaration. Some, but not necessarily all, of the data on old hard drives is moved to new computer hard drives, the declaration added.

Fujitsu plans to begin selling a new range of high-performance hard-disk drives for laptop PCs that offer more storage space than current models.

The "MHZ2 BJ" series of drives have disks that spin at 7,200rpm–faster than the 5,400rpm common on most similar drives–and will be available in capacities up to 320GB, the Tokyo company said Monday.

Learn about the composite applications that are available for IBM Lotus Quickr services for IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0. See how to customize the components that use IBM Workplace Web Content Management services. Follow along with an example as we add functionality to the blog composite application.

Since the days of punch cards, IT has believed itself to be guardian of precious computing resources against attacks from non-technical barbarians known as "users." This arrogant attitude, born of once-practical necessity in the era of early data centers, reflects an inability to adapt to present-day realities. Such attitudes, combined with recent technological and social changes, are pushing IT to share the fate of long-extinct dinosaurs.

While IT’s demise won’t happen overnight, the trend is clear. Here’s why.

Hi everyone. David here with a shameless little plea. My book, Where Have All The Emails Gone? about the White House email controversy has made it to #26 on Amazon’s list of best-selling books on the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government.

Only a few more sales would push it to #25 — and that’d just make my day. So if you’ve been thinking about buying the book, could you do so today? Then, maybe, just maybe, Where HaveAll The Emails Gone? would be a Top 25 book! Thanks!

On a whim, Nancy Hand decided to try Notes 8 at home. She didn’t read the documentation before starting installation. If she had, she says, she would have seen the problem before starting.

Read this DominoPower article.

IBM announced that the Lotus Expeditor software platform is extending desktop computing and Web 2.0 capabilities to mobile phones.

The new version of IBM Lotus Expeditor 6.1.2 software enables mobile application developers to create new applications and services that combine information from different sources. Key to Lotus Expeditor technology is the use of the Eclipse embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) application model, which allows applications to be created to span desktop and mobile devices.

One of the most common ways that business users lose data is when a hard disk goes bad. What IT pros often don’t realize is that there are ways to see if a hard disk is going to fail before the failure occurs, which can provide enough time to back up needed data. This sample hack from O’Reilly’s PC Hacks shows how to use S.M.A.R.T. technology to get notification before potential failures.

Although HR departments are aware of questions that are illegal to ask prospective employees, some hiring managers aren’t so savvy. Many illegal questions are easy to avoid for just about anyone with elementary social graces, but others might surprise you. Here are 10 questions that you should be sure to strike from your interview repertoire.