Integra4Notes, the Notes to Office integration and reporting product, has released version 4.5 which delivers ND8 compatibility, further enhancements to reporting across multiple databases and other productivity improvements for users that wish to extract data from their Lotus Notes applications to the Microsoft Office suite. Full features and benefits and a free 30-day download of the product is available immediately.

This version is compatible with IBM Lotus Notes 8 and Office 2007 and new features include an integral PDF writer and improvements to the DbLookup wizard in the Integra profile. New functionality in Integra Quick Reports delivers the ability to generate ad-hoc reports from multiple databases.

This article is the first in a series of five articles about developing software based on service-oriented architecture. It shows how to use UML models extended with the IBM(r) Software Service Profile to design an SOA solution that is connected to business requirements, yet independent of the solution implementation. The author describes the business goals and objectives and the business processes implemented to meet those objectives, and then explains how to use the processes to identify business-relevant services necessary to fulfill the requirements that they represent.

Nearly nine in 10 IT managers fear the security risks caused by remote working practices, in spite of the increased productivity many home workers insist results from connecting offsite, new research has revealed.

The main concerns stem from the fact that hackers can use remote connections as a "back door" into the company network or to the risk of the corporate network by the use of unauthorized software and Internet access.

The study, conducted by Vanson Bourne and TNS, also showed that 87 percent of remote workers use their home PCs to access company data. The consumer research surveyed 1,335 U.K. adults and the IT manager research questioned 200 businesses of up to 250 employees.

Online videos aren’t just for bloopers and rants–some might also be conduits for malicious code that can infect your computer.

As anti-spam technology improves, hackers are finding new vehicles to deliver their malicious code. And some could be embedded in online video players, according to a report on Internet threats released by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center as it holds its annual summit.

This article charts some basic approaches for designing components for composite application development that have maximum reuse. You can use many different strategies to provide the optimum components.

Learn to enable users to both rate existing animations and to combine existing animations into new snippets. This is the third in a series of three tutorials that chronicle the building of a site that enables collaborative discussion and animation building using Domino and OpenLaszlo.

IBM announced new and enhanced services and software that are designed to further simplify the adoption of service oriented architecture while also supporting advanced information technology environments. The new offerings are designed to help organizations unite IT and business as they progress from establishing an SOA strategy to being able to flawlessly perform high volume business transactions.

Based on its experience with more than 5,700 SOA customers worldwide, IBM developed the new offerings to address the business and technical needs of both basic and advanced SOA deployments. IBM is applying a combination of industry-leading SOA expertise with decades of transaction processing leadership to help clients simultaneously increase the volume and the integrity of their business transactions.

Intel is confirming that it plans on changing some, but not all, of its product names by the beginning of 2008 in order to help streamline and simplify its platform and processor portfolios. At its 2007 Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel executives introduced a myriad of new code names for the company’s future platforms and processors, but the name changes the company is planning for January target those product names that Intel already has in the market.

The name changes were first reported on the Tech ARP Web site in September and an Intel spokesman confirmed to eWEEK on Oct. 3 that the company is moving forward with the name and logo changes.

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Symantec has a message for bot herders: Beware. The security vendor is expanding its managed security service to provide protection against bots through its Global Intelligence Network.

By integrating new bot intelligence into its security services, Symantec officials said they can provide additional insight into bot networks and other unauthorized communications with rogue servers. The company’s Global Intelligence Network allows Symantec on an around-the-clock basis to find bot activity from its threat data sources, identify malware and correlate blacklist information with what would otherwise seem to be benign activity.