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IBM announced that after two years in development and testing by more than 25,000 businesses around the world, Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus Domino 8 (www.ibm.com/lotus/nd8) is now available. IBM Lotus Notes 8 and IBM Lotus Domino 8 represents the industry’s first enterprise collaboration solution largely designed with input from its customers.

After the appointment of Rafael ”Pepeng” Rollan as the new managing director of Microsoft Philippines, the company also announced the departure of Dittas A. Formoso. Reasons for her departure were undisclosed.
Mae Rivera-Moreno, PR manager of Microsoft Philippines, confirmed the news of Formoso’s departure. She added that she knows very little about the decision to let go of Formoso, and that she cannot comment on [...]

A zero-day vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger was found. Researchers at McAfee Avert Labs have found that the flaw may allow for user-assisted remote-code execution attacks.  It heap overflow which can be triggered when the victim accepts a webcam invite.
Users are adviced not to accept webcam invites from untrusted sources and to block outgoing traffic on [...]

Exactly 25 years ago on August 17, 1982, Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the world’s first compact disc at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, just outside of Hanover, Germany. The invention of the CD ushered in a technological revolution in the music industry as CDs — with their superior sound quality and scratch free durability [...]