Using File Attender for Notes version 6.3, you can archive files from a user’s hard drive or a Domino server’s hard drive to a centralized location based on criteria such as: file name, type and date. Archived files can reside on any random access storage that the user or the server can address (File server, WORM, SANS, NAS, JukeBox, etc.). Once the file is archived, a shortcut is left behind providing users a way to locate and/or open the archived files. With File Attender in place, organizations will experience a decrease in storage requirements while having an increase in server performance by archiving files off of over-taxed servers. It also provides an easier means for legal and HR departments to search, manage and secure employee data.

Over the last five years, there haven’t been any great technological breakthroughs on the order of the personal computer or the Internet. Yet organizations around the country continue to embrace new technologies, such as Web services, digital supply chains, open systems, wireless communications, and self-service and collaborative technologies. And the net result is that technology is having as much of an impact, if not more so, on how business operates than at any other time. In this, Baseline’s fifth anniversary issue, they take a look back over the last five or so years and examine 10 major industries to see how leading companies in each of those sectors used information technology to boost not only themselves, but the entire market in which they do business.

IBM introduced its most extensive lineup of new software and services for building and expanding a service oriented architecture (SOA). The new offerings, based on IBM’s experience with nearly 3,000 SOA customer engagements and 2,500 business partners, will help clients efficiently and quickly deploy SOAs. The new software and services focus on four key areas: the use of business process management to exploit benefits from SOA, governance as the cornerstone of SOA success, preparing IT infrastructures for SOA, and creating industry-specialized SOA services. In total, IBM is announcing four new and 23 enhanced products and 11 new professional services offerings.

The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon. An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi said in a presentation at the ToorCon hacker conference. The flaw affects Firefox on Windows, Apple Computer’s Mac OS X and Linux, they said.

Hewlett-Packard has no plans for a battery recall, despite efforts by several of its competitors to replace millions of notebook PC battery packs. The Palo Alto, Calif., computer giant said that, following a review, it did not see reason to replace notebook battery packs containing lithium-ion cells manufactured by Sony that were shipped with some of its notebooks. Manufacturing defects in some Sony lithium-ion cells have lead to battery packs overheating and even a handful of notebook fires. The condition has lead to the recall of more than 7 million battery packs to date by several top manufacturers.

IBM will license its technology for cooling servers with water instead of air to a Chicago-area company. Panduit, a global networking and electrical manufacturer, will license IBM’s Rear Door Heat eXchanger product, a 5-inch-deep cooling door to be mounted on the back of a conventional server rack in a data center. Water courses through the door, cooling the processors in the server hardware. IBM’s water-cooled system reduces server heat output in data centers by up to 55 percent, compared to air-cooled technology.

Oracle will soon begin certification of its database software to run on Itanium 2 computing processor platforms. Oracle joined with officials of the Itanium Solutions Alliance in making the announcement Monday at the first ever Itanium Solutions Summit in San Francisco. The move is a further endorsement by Oracle of the beleaguered Itanium processor family which has been slow to gain traction in the server marketplace, though it has shown some recent momentum.

Over 200 major incidents have been detected by PandaLabs in a two-hour span due to the mass-mailing of spam messages carrying files infected with the Spamta worm. Spamta.CY reaches computers in an email message with a variable subject, selected at random from a list of options. The message body contains a text warning users that email messages are being sent from their computers because it is infected with a malicious code.

Andrew S. Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, yesterday was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in the conspiracy that led to the collapse of Enron in 2002, the Justice Department announced. Fastow, who cooperated with government prosecutors in the trials that led to convictions in May on fraud and conspiracy charges for former Enron chief executives Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. Fastow was sentenced on two counts of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud before Judge Kenneth Hoyt at U.S. District Court in Houston, Texas.

Six men have been charged with orchestrating a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday. The men are accused of harvesting thousands of AOL e-mail addresses and then infecting victims’ PCs with malicious software that would prevent them from logging on to AOL without entering their credit card numbers, bank account numbers and other personal information.