Public beta due soon for new Microsoft VOIP server ... Three security technologies to watch

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News: Public beta due soon for new Microsoft VOIP server
News: HTC in race to put out first Windows Mobile 6 handset
News: Samsung ships its first hybrid disk drive
News: Google updates desktop search tool
Security Tip: Three security technologies to watch
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Public beta due soon for new Microsoft VOIP server
Microsoft Corp. will release a public beta of new VOIP server software by the end of this month. The software smoothly integrates with legacy phone networks and its Office application suite, the company said.

HTC in race to put out first Windows Mobile 6 handset
Taiwanese handset maker High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) is racing to put out the first smart phone based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile 6 OS, a company representative said Wednesday.

Microsoft TechFest provides glimpse of future
What do cats and Internet security have in common? If you had attended Microsoft Corp.'s TechFest 2007 on Tuesday in Redmond, Washington, you would know.

Samsung ships its first hybrid disk drive
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun shipping its first hybrid hard-disk drives that mix conventional magnetic storage with flash memory, it said Wednesday.

Google updates desktop search tool
Google Inc. has released a new version of its desktop search tool, adding a preview feature to help find information more quickly and making some improvements to the interface design.

Windows Mobile handsets get Yahoo Go 2.0
Yahoo Inc. has teamed up with High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) to put a suite of Internet software applications on millions of Windows Mobile handsets, the companies said Wednesday.

HP piles up PC sales lead over Dell
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) continued to pull ahead of Dell Inc. in global PC sales during the fourth quarter of 2006, according to an industry report released Tuesday.

Sony to delay full-year results due to Sarbanes-Oxley
Sony Corp. will delay the release of its full-year earnings by about three weeks due to stricter U.S. accounting rules, the company said Wednesday.

IBM surpasses HP in storage hardware sales
IBM Corp. earns bragging rights for surpassing Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2006 storage hardware sales, though it still trails industry leader EMC Corp., according to an industry report published Tuesday.

Ingres, Wipro team on open-source enterprise software
Indian outsourcer Wipro Ltd. is to develop open-source business software and offer system integration services around the open-source database from software vendor Ingres Corp., which will be marketed jointly by the two companies.


SECURITY TIP

Three security technologies to watch
By Brent Huston, MicroSolved, Inc.

Three security-related technologies that are worth watching are: Security information management and unified threat management products, buffer overflow protection shims, and source code assessment tools.

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