Acronis, developer of storage management software, announced its August schedule of free Webinars instructing prospective customers and partners on protecting valuable data.

Beyond just backing up critical data, Acronis believes the recovery of it is most important, specifically how fast you can recover and become productive again. Disk based image backup and recovery has never been faster or easier. Webinar participants will learn what end users are saying about the challenge of reliable backup and recovery and how Acronis solutions can protect your company’s critical data.

The European Commission issued formal charges against Intel for allegedly using illegal tactics against smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices, a European Commission spokesman said.

The commission, the European Union’s top antitrust regulator, has spent years investigating Intel’s tactics to determine whether it acted unfairly to preserve its dominance over AMD.

Netviewer has announced the findings of a new survey into IT helpdesks. The survey from independent research firm Vanson Bourne, shows that one in five users admit that they don’t always provide accurate information about the nature of a computer problem–the main reasons being a lack of insight (45 percent), a lack of time (30 percent), or a lack of appropriate vocabulary (25 percent). 15 percent said they felt too embarrassed.

However, 31 percent of internal IT helpdesk users are dissatisfied with the quality of support they receive. The figure rises to 48 percent for users of external (third party) IT helpdesks.

Rather than contacting a helpdesk, 40 percent of respondents prefer to stop working and try to fix the problem themselves. It also appears that many people rely upon non-professional help from colleagues, friends or relations with 92 percent of respondents saying that they have at some stage tried to assist someone at work with IT issues. This is a worrying finding given that 30 percent describe themselves as less than moderately IT literate.

There’s a new workplace etiquette for the new millennium, and, no surprise, it’s all about transparency and authenticity.

The new etiquette is driven by the fact that young people who grew up online don’t know how to operate any other way except transparently. The good news is this means they have great social skills; the bad news is they have no idea that they’re breaking all the old rules. Here are 10 tips to help people who aren’t used to living an authentic, transparent work life.

One of the latest techniques spammers are using to try and get through spam blockers is to attach a simple PDF file to their emails. This PDF file will then contain their sales message, making it difficult for traditional spam blockers to know what the message is about–most spam blockers are unable to read the contents of a PDF file.

ClearMyMail’s Spam Blocker has kept on top of this latest problem with the release an update to their award winning anti-spam software, just before these spam PDF e-mails became a problem. This new update is able to identify and block the PDF spam before it reaches the mailbox, saving disk space, time and bandwidth.

As Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz dug deeper into how the White House manages email, knowing what he does about how email works, the tiny little hairs on the back of his neck started to stand up. As he started to think about the implications from the perspective of our country’s security, he realized this was no longer simply about some missing email messages. Unchecked, some really, really bad things could happen. Prepare to be freaked out.

Read this DominoPower article.

IBM’s Migration Toolkit (or MTK) is a free-to-use, free-support tool that helps you move off competitor databases and on to IBM data servers, both DB2 and Informix Dynamic Server. Until now, MTK only offered a graphical way of interacting with the tool. This interface makes MTK very easy to work with, especially for first-timers. Many experienced users however found that carefully-planned, successful migrations involved the repeated use of MTK and expressed a desire to use MTK without having to point and click. And so the latest release of MTK, version 2.0.3.0, includes a command-line interface among other new features.

The Mozilla Foundation is dealing with yet another URL-handling issue–and this time, researchers have posted a non-malicious proof of concept that shows how the flaw can be used for remote command execution on machines running Mozilla’s Firefox browser.

Mozilla’s URL-handling hassles began earlier in July, when security researcher Thor Larholm found a zero-day vulnerability that can lead to systems getting hijacked. Larholm called it an IE zero-day at the time, blaming the vulnerability on an input validation flaw in Internet Explorer that allows users to specify arbitrary arguments to the process responsible for handling URL protocols. It’s the same type of input validation vulnerability that Larholm discovered in the Safari 3 beta, he said at the time.

The proliferation of wireless technology has made it easier for employees across countless specialties to work from home or other remote locations. Workers who are able to take advantage of these opportunities fairly consistently report greater efficiency without in-office distractions, a better work-life balance and even more satisfaction from their jobs. Yet, telecommuting uptake rates have long been held back by employers concerns over lost productivity, security risks and a discomfort over not being able to keep immediate tabs on their workforce.

Yet among IT professionals, telecommuting is more commonplace than ever. Nearly half (44 percent) of CIOs reported that their companies’ IT workforce telecommutes at a rate that is the same or higher than it was five years ago, according to a study released by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing firm in Menlo Park, Calif. Only three percent of the 1,400 responding CIOs said that their IT staff work remotely less frequently today than five years ago.

iPhone. Whether enterprises are prepared or not, it has arrived. Less than a month into its release, Apple’s multimedia, Internet-enabled phone has already received criticism regarding security, highlighted by attempts to unlock the iPhone for networks other than AT&T and a well-publicized exploit crafted by Independent Security Evaluators, Baltimore-based security testers.

It is only natural that IT organizations shiver at the thought of the iPhone endangering their networks, but they will have few options to block its entrance to the enterprise and no recourse but to prepare for it, said Andrew Jaquith, an analyst at Yankee Group.