What will you do when the White House email problem becomes your email problem? The current uproar about email retention at the White House may have direct meaning for Notes/Domino and Exchange sites. There are really two issues: how long is your retention policy and which emails are exempt from retention?

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Over the past few weeks, it’s come to America’s attention that some emails from the White House have gone missing. As the publisher of two of the largest publications dedicated to email and electronic communication, OutlookPower Magazine and DominoPower Magazine, ZATZ is investigating this issue. Our goal is to make clear the technical elements of the discussion. We are strictly publishers of technical information, so we’re going to do our best to completely avoid the political discussion.

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Research In Motion finally offered some details late Thursday about what caused a severe outage of its BlackBerry e-mail service from Tuesday evening until Wednesday morning.

The company said in a statement that it had ruled out security and capacity issues as a cause of the outage that left millions of so-called "CrackBerry" addicts without access to their e-mail for several hours. The company also said the incident was not caused by any hardware failure or core software issue.

Ruling out those causes, the company has "determined that the incident was triggered by the introduction of a new, noncritical system routine that was designed to provide better optimization of the system’s cache."

Lenovo Group, the world’s third largest PC vendor, is eliminating 1,400 jobs worldwide, a move executives said will help save the company $100 million during this fiscal year.

In a statement released April 19, Lenovo CEO William J. Amelio said that the cuts were necessary in order to grow the company, reduce expenses and keep the cost of its desktops and notebooks down.

The Federal Communications Commission has begun action on two items involving broadband deployment in the United States. The first is a Notice of Inquiry into whether broadband services are being provided to all Americans in a timely and reasonable fashion. The second is a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on methods of collecting information needed to set broadband policy in the future. Both were announced by the Commission late on April 16.

According to a statement released by the FCC, based in Washington, the NOI is a response to a requirement in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that requires the agency to determine whether broadband deployment is progressing as it should. The NPRM is intended to determine whether it’s necessary to modify the collection of speed tier information to more accurately determine whether broadband deployment is meeting the needs of diverse communities in the United States.

Mozilla released the final version of Thunderbird 2, the next generation of the organization’s open-source e-mail client.

Key new features include message tagging, message history, and a new function to search for content within messages, among numerous other enhancements.

Intelore, one of the key developers of password recovery solutions, launched OpenOffice Password Recovery 1.0.4–a powerful software tool designed to help absent-minded or careless PC users recover forgotten passwords for a suite of OpenOffice.org programs (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math etc.).

OpenOffice Password Recovery 1.0.4 offers a suite of mechanisms and schemes to quickly and smoothly recover all types of passwords and discard formatting and editing restrictions (for example, locked cells protection and permissions). OpenOffice Password Recovery features a variety of built-in attack profiles allowing you to efficiently recover passwords with a single key click. The sophisticated solution offers Unicode support and allows for recovery of multilanguage passwords (e.g. containing both Latin characters and hieroglyphs) regardless of their length or complexity.

Malicious JavaScript is getting smarter. It’s now able to fingerprint victims’ Web browsers, vulnerable components, and accessible CLSIDs, and deliver custom-tailored exploits, according to Dr. Jose Nazario, senior security engineer for Arbor Networks.

Nazario was referring to NeoSploit, a new malware tool he’s seen in the wild that carries at least seven distinct exploits to infect a PC with, from which it can choose based on what that PC’s weak points are.

The latest news from RIM, maker of the Blackberry wireless email device, says it has restored the service to "most" of its North American users following a network failure. Research In Motion said it was now looking at the cause of the breakdown, which first happened on Tuesday night.

Some US and Canadian users will still experience delays until the backlog of undelivered emails clears, it added.

But with eight million global users, some analysts have questioned whether the network has reached capacity.

Symantec officials announced the release of an upgraded version of Backup Exec System Recovery that features enhanced Microsoft Exchange support and data recovery capabilities they hope will speed and simplify the Windows system recovery process.

Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0 works by creating recovery points to capture an exact copy of a system, company officials said.