We continue our exploration into the missing White House emails we’ve all been hearing about. Aren’t these emails archived? How do they manage their mail flow? Do they have an archiving system? For that, we turn to the White House itself. In this article, we’ll learn what White House spokesfolk Dana Perino and Tony Snow have been saying about the topic. After listening to them and reading the transcripts of press briefings in-depth, we’ve got with even more questions than we started with. And the shakes.

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Internet censorship is growing worldwide, with 26 out of 40 countries blocking or filtering political or social content, a study reported Friday.

The survey carried out by experts at four leading universities found that people in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were often denied access to information about politics, sexuality, culture or religion.

Newly merged Alcatel-Lucent is warning thousands of employees and retirees that personal information such as Social Security numbers, names and addresses may have been exposed after a CD prepared by a vendor was reported missing.

The unencrypted disc was crafted by one of the telecommunication company’s vendors, Hewitt Associates. It contains names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and salary data of Alcatel-Lucent employees on the U.S. payroll who worked for Lucent and their dependents. The disc contains the same information about Lucent retirees and their dependents as well.

Stampede Technologies announced the release of the Stampede Multi-User Client software. Stampede’s Multi-User Client software offers enterprises a lightweight, yet robust alternative to installing and administering expensive hardware at remote locations, or deploying client software on every remote device. With Stampede’s Multi-User Client and the Stampede Application Acceleration Series, end users gain complete bi-directional acceleration for HTTP/HTTPS, Web 2.0 and AJAX applications, resulting in improved performance, increased productivity and reduced bandwidth utilization. The resulting total cost of ownership for Stampede’s hardware-software WAN optimization solution is up to 90 percent less than comparable two-sided, hardware/hardware optimization approaches.

Over in the DesktopLinux forums, people have been talking about why, if Linux is so darned great, don’t people give up Windows and move to it.

The usual suspects show up. There aren’t enough applications. The right application isn’t available. You still have to use the command line for some things. Some equipment doesn’t have drivers. There’s some truth to those, and some nonsense.

The real reason people don’t use Linux on their desktops, though, is that it’s not already there. They stick with what they know. It’s really that simple.

The Hewlett-Packard Garage, a 12-foot by 8-foot shed at 367 Addison Ave. in Palo Alto, Calif., now stands beside such hallowed sites as the Alamo, Carnegie Hall and the White House.

The National Park Service on May 17 declared the site where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard began their partnership in 1938 a National Historic Landmark, among those sites and some 2,400 others considered historically significant by the agency.

The garage, which first appeared in Palo Alto city records in 1924, housed the Hewlett and Packard workshop as the former Stanford University classmates tooled around with a used Sears Craftsman drill press to create an audio oscillator in 1938. They formalized their partnership as Hewlett-Packard the following year and moved on to larger quarters in 1940, but 367 Addison is regularly considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley.

People will click on anything. That was evidenced by the 409 people who clicked on an ad that offers infection for those with virus-free PCs. The ad, run by a person who identifies himself as security professional Didier Stevens, reads like this:

Drive-By Download

Is your PC virus-free?

Get it infected here!

drive-by-download.info

Stevens, who says he works for Contraste Europe, a branch of the IT consultancy The Contraste Group, has been running his Google Adwords campaign for six months now and has received 409 hits. Stevens has done similar research in the past, such as finding out how easy it is to land on a drive-by download site when doing a Google search.

CommonTime, a leading company for extending IBM Lotus Notes to smartphones and PDA announces that Windows Mobile 6, through it’s mSuite software, will support IBM Lotus Notes functionality.

mSuite brings advanced Lotus Notes messaging with strongly Lotus-centric functions and operations to Windows-focused devices. Features such as Lotus Sametime instant messaging and "free time search," which are normally confined to the world of Lotus Notes, will be available in the Windows environment of a smartphone or PDA.

Atelier Software has released Fanurio, a Windows time tracking and billing application designed for freelancers. With Fanurio you can easily organize your work, track time and create invoices.

In order to keep track of client work, you can create a project for each client. Then you can record time and expenses. Work can be marked as billable or non-billable using a flat rate or an hourly rate.

The application can be accessed from the Windows tray bar and it detects idle time. Fanurio can export its data to a CSV or Excel file so that you can easily import it in other applications like Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc.

You lucky duck–you scored a $20 copy of Norton AntiVirus. Not only is your PC now safe from the clutches of bad guys, but you also saved a pretty penny to boot.

Or, then again, not. What are the dangers from running a pirated copy of a security product?