Review: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 offers some nifty new features

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE / more stories...

Oracle integrates CRM On Demand with Siebel
Oracle has integrated its on-demand CRM product with Siebel CRM.

Use BI to cut cell phone bills
BlackBerry, iPhone, cell phone, pager — personal devices of every sort were rampant at Title Resource Group. Then the real estate closing firm put business intelligence to use.

CAREERS / more stories...

MBAs skip on-campus recruiting
Across top-tier U.S. business schools, a small but growing number of students are skipping traditional winter on-campus recruitment. Instead, they are logging long hours conducting their own searches and networking furiously.

Global Dispatches
Taiwan has launched an antitrust investigation of Microsoft; and Botswana has invested $100 million in Africa's project to lay cable that would link it with Europe.

DEVELOPMENT / more stories...

Microsoft reveals IE8 Beta 2
Beating its own deadline by several days, Microsoft today launched the second beta of its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser.

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is icing, and more cake
Basic data-driven Web apps can be built very quickly now, thanks to the inclusion of Dynamic Data.

GOVERNMENT / more stories...

Terror threat system crippled by technical flaws, says Congress
A $500 million IT project designed to "connect the dots" on terrorist plots and help prevent another 9/11 attack could be headed for failure, according to a U.S. house subcommittee.

McCain's online reach surges in days before Dem convention
In the weeks prior to the Democratic National Convention, John McCain broadly expanded his reach on the Web, as many bloggers took up his cause and his attack ads found a significant online audience.

HARDWARE / more stories...

iPhone gets two AT&T data plans for international travelers
AT&T is offering two new international data plans for iPhone users, both of which are expensive and receiving mixed reviews.

Cisco buys into e-mail with $215M PostPath acquisition
Cisco plans to add PostPath's e-mail and calendaring capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform.

MANAGEMENT / more stories...

Terror threat system crippled by technical flaws, says Congress
A $500 million IT project designed to "connect the dots" on terrorist plots and help prevent another 9/11 attack could be headed for failure, according to a U.S. house subcommittee.

Study: Grim outlook for U.S. IT spending
U.S. companies are reining in IT spending as the economy continues to show weakness, a new survey has found.

MOBILE AND WIRELESS / more stories...

iPhone gets two AT&T data plans for international travelers
AT&T is offering two new international data plans for iPhone users, both of which are expensive and receiving mixed reviews.

Apple forgets to fix iPhone passcode bug
An iPhone bug patched in January by Apple to stop unauthorized users from bypassing the password-protected locking feature has resurfaced in newer versions of the phone's software.

NETWORKING AND INTERNET / more stories...

iPhone gets two AT&T data plans for international travelers
AT&T is offering two new international data plans for iPhone users, both of which are expensive and receiving mixed reviews.

Microsoft reveals IE8 Beta 2
Beating its own deadline by several days, Microsoft today launched the second beta of its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser.

OPERATING SYSTEMS / more stories...

Microsoft reveals IE8 Beta 2
Beating its own deadline by several days, Microsoft today launched the second beta of its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser.

Linux end-user summit planned
During the free, invitation-only summit, there will be discussions between end users and Linux maintainers, including Andrew Morton and James Bottomley.

SECURITY / more stories...

Terror threat system crippled by technical flaws, says Congress
A $500 million IT project designed to "connect the dots" on terrorist plots and help prevent another 9/11 attack could be headed for failure, according to a U.S. house subcommittee.

Malware infects space station laptops
Malware has managed to get off the planet and onto the International Space Station -- and it's not the first time a worm or virus has made it into orbit.

SERVERS AND DATA CENTER / more stories...

Cisco buys into e-mail with $215M PostPath acquisition
Cisco plans to add PostPath's e-mail and calendaring capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform.

Storage market thrives in down economy
Worldwide disk storage shipments will double in capacity every two years through 2012, predicts IDC. The analyst firm says the most important force behind this growth is the emergence of content-rich business applications in areas such as telecommunications, media/entertainment and Web 2.0.

SOFTWARE / more stories...

Cisco buys into e-mail with $215M PostPath acquisition
Cisco plans to add PostPath's e-mail and calendaring capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform.

Should Google's Gmail outages turn you off to SaaS?
Michael Osterman, an expert on messaging and communications software, says the recent Gmail outage demonstrates the need for Gmail to have an offline mode, but he thinks much of the news around the outage was only because it happened to the high-profile Google.

STORAGE / more stories...

Storage market thrives in down economy
Worldwide disk storage shipments will double in capacity every two years through 2012, predicts IDC. The analyst firm says the most important force behind this growth is the emergence of content-rich business applications in areas such as telecommunications, media/entertainment and Web 2.0.

Samsung plans to mass produce low-density laptop SSDs
Samsung has launched three new solid-state drives and said today it expects the market for the low-density drives to grow by 57% until 2011.