IBM and Covalent Technologies announced they have contributed technology to the Apache Geronimo community to help enterprise customers easily migrate from the JBoss Application Server to the open source Apache Geronimo application server, which is free to download and use.

The new migration tool being contributed to the Apache Geronimo community converts applications built for JBoss to Geronimo by generating the appropriate configuration files.

According to a recent report from Evans Data Corporation, in a single year, IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, which is based on Apache Geronimo, gained 16 points of market share with Eclipse developers, versus only a 6.6 share gain for JBoss. Additionally, more than 600 independent software vendors and systems integrators have joined IBM’s WebSphere Application Server Community Edition partner initiative in just six months.

Employers are increasingly checking out online personal information about candidates when making recruitment decisions.

Net reputations built up through online activities–such as blogging, posting videos to YouTube, or using social networks such as Facebook and MySpace.com–can have a significant effect when applying for a job.

According to research released Wednesday, one in five employers finds information about candidates on the Internet, and 59 percent of those said it influences recruitment decisions.

Most sources define a keylogger as a software program designed to secretly monitor and log all keystrokes. This definition is not altogether correct, since a keylogger doesn’t have to be software–it can also be a device.

Unlike other types of malicious program, keyloggers present no threat to the system itself. Nevertheless, they can pose a serious threat to users, as they can be used to intercept passwords and other confidential information entered via the keyboard. Check out Kaskpersky’s take on keyloggers in this all-about article.

A little under one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a survey released Friday.

Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. households, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe to an Internet service over the next 12 months.

The OpenOffice.org Community announced the release of OpenOffice.org 2.2, the latest version of the leading open-source office suite. With upgrades to its word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, and database software, the free software package provides a real alternative to Microsoft’s recently-released Office 2007 product–and an easier upgrade path for existing Microsoft Office users.

Flowfinity Wireless, provider of adaptable applications and fully integrated solutions for the wireless enterprise, announced support for the new BlackBerry 8800 smartphone from Research In Motion.

Flowfinity’s products have been enhanced to support the BlackBerry 8800 with a new rapid, easy-to-use installation, enhanced security integration to simplify deployment, full utilization of the trackball navigation system, and optimized application performance.

Lotusphere 2007 showed a great range of new opportunities for enterprises in the form of enhanced collaboration software. Web 2.0 is moving from the public Internet to businesses, connecting corporate users in a much deeper approach than we were used to. Social computing is the main focus here, and it is a big new challenge for IT managers and application developers. This two-part series gives an overview on the new Web 2.0 features discussed at Lotusphere, displays ways to generate business value and gives ideas on how social computing can be integrated into your business applications.

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Hewlett-Packard said it has sued Taiwan computer maker Acer for patent infringement, pressuring Acer shares.

Goldman Sachs analyst Henry King said the lawsuit, which aims to stop Acer from selling some products in the United States, could pressure Acer’s already-slim profit margins there.

A group of software gurus gathered at TheServerSide Java Symposium to discuss the future of programming, say we should expect to see more dynamic languages and possibly a new major language in the next five years.

During a panel discussion titled "2010: A Developer’s Odyssey" at the symposium, Eugene Ciurana, an enterprise architect at Walmart.com, said in the next few years he expects to see "more scripting languages added to the JVM [Java Virtual Machine], especially with Java 6, and to make it easier and make development a lot faster."

Fewer than half of the UK’s 29M adult Internet users believe they are responsible for protecting personal information online, a survey suggests.

One in six of the 2,441 people surveyed felt responsibility rested with banks.

The research, for a government-backed online safety campaign, found 12% had suffered online fraud in the last year–at an average loss of