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Six technical tracks cover all the important issues from messaging, collaboration, and user management to performance, monitoring, application maintenance, and security. Plus, the highly-rated Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Upgrade Seminar is a dedicated track and is included as part of this 3 day event.

ComputraceOne uses the Internet to track and recover missing laptop computers, so that when a laptop is reported stolen, the embedded Computrace agent sends a silent signal to Absolute’s monitoring centre, providing critical information about where the device is located.

Absolute’s recovery team then works with the police, to recover the computer. In addition, the Computrace software agent can survive accidental or deliberate attempts at removal or disablement.

Absolute Software Corporation, provider of firmware-based, patented computer theft recovery, data protection and secure asset tracking solutions commissioned Research Concepts to ask 185 members of NetworkWorld’s Technology Opinion Panel about the state of computer and data security in their organizations. The results revealed that, although computer and data security are high priorities for corporations, they are nevertheless unprepared to prevent data breaches and computer theft. Included here are key findings from the survey.

Ah, yes. The important details. You can buy Where Have All The Emails Gone? from Amazon.com. It’s $19.95 and it’s a heck of a read.

I am having a very strange day. For the first time, the PR shoe is on the other foot and I’m trying to get PR and talking to reporters. Right now, I’m waiting on a callback from our local NBC news station. They’ve been calling us all day about showing up to do an interview in my living room tonight. They were in a big hurry to book it, but now we don’t even know if they’re going to show up.

Stay tuned. Whether I get covered is anyone’s guess.

Anyway, the fuss is about a press release I sent out about my new book, Where Have All The Emails Gone? The official press release went out yesterday and we’ve been gearing up to let you, our readers know about it this week.

In any case, the headline was "Is Osama bin Laden reading private White House email? New book shows it’s possible." And that got NBC’s attention. But was it enough to get them to plop a camera in my living room tonight? Don’t know yet.

And, so now, the shoe’s on the other foot. Rather than calling each individual news person (which is how I like to be approached), we just blasted out the release to a list we bought. Now, I’m the one mailing to a list. Not exactly my idea of best-practice, but given my total lack of time, it’s what had to happen.

I’m beginning to understand a little more of the PR challenge. Our accumulated list is something like 99,000 people. If we were to try to figure out who on that list should get the release, it could take years to go through the whole thing. But one email takes a short time. Of course, now each individual editor has to deal with the PR UCE that comes flowing in. My email box is always filled to the brim with this crap.

And now, I’m doing it, too. So weird.

By the way, here’s the fulltext of the release, just for kicks. — David

Does Osama bin Laden know President Bush’s confidential travel itinery before Mr. Bush’s own staff does? Can Mahmoud Ahmadinejad read our war plans and strike first? If Vladimir Putin knows America’s secret foreign policy decisions, how badly could that hurt us?

Our new book, Where Have AllThe Emails Gone?, by our own David Gewirtz, shows how something as seemingly benign as White House email can have freaky national security consequences.

IBM announced that it plans to repurchase up to $1 billion of its outstanding common stock in open market transactions by the end of February 2008. These repurchases, originally planned for March and April of 2008, are in addition to a $12.5 billion accelerated share repurchase announced earlier this year.

Trend Micro has re-branded and released Provilla’s flagship data leak prevention product suite with a new emphasis on user education as well as additional platform and application support.

Keeping an eye on studies showing many data leaks are the result of accidents by employees as opposed to hackers or malicious insiders, Trend Micro designed Trend Micro LeakProof 3.0 with interactive endpoint alerts. IT administrators can customize these alerts to educate employees on security policies if they take an authorized action.

Mozilla has released Firefox version 2.0.0.11 to fix a regression bug in version 2.0.0.10 that it had just released Monday. This is a stability update, which corrects a compatibility issue with some Web sites and extensions discovered in Firefox 2.0.0.10. Mozilla announced that it strongly recommends that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release.