YouTube offers concession to Japanese copyright group ... IBM sells part of its stake in Lenovo

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News: YouTube offers concession to Japanese copyright group
News: Lenovo signs end-user services deal with IBM
News: IBM sells part of its stake in Lenovo
News: ITU, GSMA collaborate on developing markets
Storage Tip: Who's responsible for electronically stored information
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: Best and worst of the Internet ... from 1994


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YouTube offers concession to Japanese copyright group
YouTube Inc. will start displaying a notice in Japanese on its Web site warning users against uploading copyright content, its two founders told representatives of a broad group of Japanese copyright holders on Tuesday in their first face-to-face meeting.

Lenovo signs end-user services deal with IBM
Lenovo Group Ltd. has signed a five-year deal with IBM Corp. to provide services and support to its customers. The deal, outlined in a filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange Tuesday, could be worth up to US$245 million for IBM over the term of the contract.

IBM sells part of its stake in Lenovo
IBM Corp. sold off a chunk of its stake in Lenovo Group Ltd., leading the world's third-largest PC vendor to temporarily suspend trading of its shares in Hong Kong on Tuesday.

ITU, GSMA collaborate on developing markets
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an arm of the United Nations responsible for telecommunications issues, and the GSM Association (GSMA), which represents the interests of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) operators, have agreed to collaborate in boosting mobile phone access in developing countries.

Analyst: March update should help Red Hat
The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in March should strengthen Red Hat Inc.'s lead in the open source software market and fend off challenges from Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc., an industry analyst said.

Cisco focuses on security products integration
Over the next few months, Cisco plans a major new release to the software that runs its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) product. Also in the works are updates to the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Cisco Security Agent (CSA), Cisco Security Manager (CSM), and Mitigation Analysis and Response System (MARS).

Hitachi Data to buy storage vendor Archivas
Storage systems vendor Hitachi Data Systems Corp. (HDS) will acquire storage management company Archivas Inc. Archivas sells an online storage management product, Archivas Cluster (ArC), which lets customers store, protect, and manage fixed-content data, such as document, e-mail, database, image, and audio files.

Mobile companies line up video deals
Three deals announced Monday brought prominent Hollywood figures and a major media company deeper into the business of mobile video. They will bring comedy, news and other shows to small screens later this year.

FaceTime to offer Skype management
Next month, FaceTime Communications Inc. plans to release new software that will make Skype a little easier to manage.

Bugs in Blogger prompt user complaints
Google Inc.'s Blogger service has been generating a steady stream of complaints from users this year, including hours-long outages, feature malfunctions and data loss.


STORAGE TIP

Who's responsible for electronically stored information?
By David Hill, Mesabi Group

Who has responsibility for electronically stored information (ESI)? When data protection focuses on its traditional role of business continuity, the majority of responsibility was on IT and not the business functions. However, with the rise of compliance demands and new demands for governance such as mandated by changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), the question of who has responsibility becomes less clear. Your problem is avoiding getting caught in the middle.


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ITWHIRLED

Best and worst of the Internet ... from 1994
As we end the season for year-end retrospectives, it's instructive to look at this one from the dawn of the Web. The best entertainment offerings involved games played via e-mail and gopher; there was a "worst spam" category (because there were actually few enough that we could keep track); and Cecil Adams was already building his Web presence. And this complaint from the days before not just Google, but any real search engine: "I love the Web, but finding something specific on it is a nightmare."