A corporate shoving match has begun between Hewlett-Packard and Dell following new allegations that HP robbed Dell of trade secrets.

Fortune magazine reported this week that it unearthed information that appears to support claims made by Karl Kamb Jr., a former HP vice president. Kamb said in legal documents filed in January that in 2002 HP paid a former Dell executive to snatch trade secrets about Dell’s printer business.

After the story, a Dell spokesman said HP had yet to respond to requests that the company investigate Kamb’s accusations. HP is suing Kamb for allegedly stealing some of its technology.

Avalon Business Systems will be demonstrating its new ReduceMail Pro Journal system for Lotus Notes mail at Admin 2007. ReduceMail Pro Journal is the latest addition to the ReduceMail Pro suite of mail management products offered by Avalon.

Many organizations that have R6, R7 or R8 have utilized its native journal feature, which creates a data-rich log of all mail. However, this Notes journal is quite large, unwieldy and encrypted, preventing effective use of this critical data. In addition, the journal content that is needed is often limited to those users who need journaling for regulatory, compliance or audit purposes. ReduceMail Pro Journal extracts only the relevant journal content and the Lotus Notes administrator is then able to perform a search on the Journal Extract. This process makes it possible to audit large mail journals in a time efficient manner.

Proposion Software announced Proposion On Demand, a new product that enables Lotus Notes users to connect with Microsoft SharePoint directly from their desktops. From their Notes client, users can effortlessly archive or migrate Notes content including emails and other documents. This functionality will be available via LotusScript and can be easily incorporated into any Notes/Domino application.

May brought a few surprises, with old email worms climbing to the top of the rankings, and a warning of more to come. This month’s Top Twenty also features two classic file viruses.

Adobe on Monday released an early version of LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, a revamped version of its document management and work-flow server.

LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, which is expected to be available for deployment in July, integrates with Adobe’s Flex development environment so developers can create Flash-based user interfaces. Until now, LiveCycle served up and routed forms in the PDF format.

Conducting regular research into WiFi networks and wireless protocols can help gain a better understanding of the true state of affairs in this area. When possible, Kaskpersky Labs tries to shed some light on these issues in their articles in order to keep computer users informed. This research focuses on Wi-Fi hotspots and mobile devices supporting Bluetooth.

IT staff routinely snoop on users, riffling through their emails and personal files, a newly released survey has found.

One IT administrator laughingly said: "Why does it surprise you that so many of us snoop around your files, wouldn’t you, if you had secret access to anything you can get your hands on?"

Few ordinary users realize that one in three of their IT work colleagues are snooping through company systems, peeking at confidential information such as your private files, wage data, personal emails, and HR background, using admin privileges.

These are the findings of a survey released by digital vaulting specialist Cyber-Ark Software, which carried out the research at last month’s Infosecurity Exhibition as part of its annual survey into "Trust, Security and Passwords."

Lenovo is revamping several of its ThinkPad notebooks, including a tablet PC, to include Intel’s new Centrino Pro mobile platform plus features to improve security and battery life.

Lenovo, which acquired the ThinkPad name when it bought IBM’s PC division in 2005, plans to roll out the new versions of its ThinkPad X61 and X61s notebooks and its X61 tablet May 31, company executives said.

The additional features in the X61 and X61s are meant to appeal to a wide range of enterprise customers who work from the road for long stretches of time, while the X61 tablet is geared toward customers in specific vertical markets such as those in the education and health care markets, said Mike Hagerty, a worldwide segment manager for Lenovo.

Synaptris will showcase IntelliPRINT–its next generation advanced reporting, analysis and dashboard solutions for Notes and Domino at the DNUG Conferences: Strategy and Experience on Lotus Software 2007.

IntelliPRINT is the next generation Advanced Reporting and Analysis solution for Lotus Notes & Domino. A native plug-in component for Notes & Domino, IntelliPRINT integrates reporting, analysis and data visualization within the business context and workflow of Notes & Domino applications.

Offering a superior data visualization experience, IntelliPRINT increases business productivity for users by providing contextual information, and has been proven to save 80% of cost incurred in reporting from Notes & Domino applications. As a result, enterprises are able to achieve a return on product investment within the first three months of use.

Apple is recommending that all QuickTime users–both on Windows and Mac OS X–download its update for Version 7.1.6 to fix a pair of security glitches. The company posted the updates on May 29.

One of the first two problems, in QuickTime for Java, can lead users to having their systems hijacked if they visit a malicious site. The flaw can allow instantiation or manipulation of objects outside of the bounds of the allocated heap. If a user gets lured to a site containing a maliciously crafted Java applet, an attacker can trigger the vulnerability and take over the target system.

The second glitch also is related to QuickTime for Java in that a Web browser’s memory can be read by a Java applet. Like the other problem, a user has to visit a site with a maliciously crafted Java applet. Upon luring a victim to such a site, an attacker can take advantage of the vulnerability and thereby may be able to read sensitive information off the victim’s system.