InfoWorld - InfoWorld has watched Xythos mature impressively over the years, starting as a highly usable, economical document manager through Version 6.0, then broadening its appeal with records management. Enterprise Document Management Suite (DMS) has now reached Version 7.0, and with the number bump comes some important enhancements. -- read full article
Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, hugely
popular at home for his visits to quake-hit Sichuan, has
emerged as the 10th most popular politician on the Facebook
social networking site.
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Facebook's decision to open its platform comes less than two weeks after the social network began denying Google's Friend Connect. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Based around the Cisco 3300 Series Mobility Services Engine, Cisco's new platform is designed to give enterprise IT directors an appliance-based platform to manage wired and wireless networks. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - MokaFive's virtual desktops run on a desktop or laptop regardless of whether that unit remains connected to a central server. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - HP says a fully loaded system takes up 8 square feet of data center floor space and offers 12.3 teraflops of performance. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Designed around the "Barcelona" quad-core Opteron processor, IBM said its x3755 configuration can scale up to four sockets and provide up to 128 GB of memory. -- read full article
Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, hugely
popular at home for his visits to quake-hit Sichuan, has
emerged as the 10th most popular politician on the Facebook
social networking site.
PC Magazine - The HomePlug Powerline Alliance said Friday that it plans to release a specification for a next-generation "HomePlug AV II" home networking specification later this year, with first silicon sampling in 2009. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - A preview version of Microsoft's Social Bookmarks, to be introduced next month, will allow users to bookmark, tag, and share any URL on the Web. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube could mean the end of social networking as we know it, Google has told a U.S. court. -- read full article
InfoWorld - Once upon a time, using open-source servers and applications for business was frowned upon in many circles. Today, you???d be hard pressed to find any sizeable infrastructure that doesn???t leverage open-source code in some form or another, be it a few MySQL databases, Apache on the Web servers, or a pile of Perl, PHP, Ruby, or Python applications holding things together. -- read full article
PC World - Europe's Internet security agency, ENISA, wants new legislation to police social networking sites such as Facebook and... -- read full article
AFP - Hong Kong's largest property firm Sun Hung Kai said Tuesday it had ousted Walter Kwok as its chairman, replacing him with his 79-year-old mother after a high-profile feud at the family-run firm.