Special report: Getting beyond the hype, mashups are proving to be more than just annotated maps for consumery Web sites. "Because mashups use technology that you already have -- JavaScript, XML, and DHTML, plus fast Internet connections to support graphical and functional richness --- there's no huge investment required," Galen Gruman explains in Enterprise mashups. "Although IT may understand the security issues related to JavaScript or other technologies underlying mashups, it's too early to tell precisely what the new risks are." The full package, Integration at the browser, also includes a look at how Sprint wrangles mashups.

Podcasts: Oliver Rist delves into 'why' you should protect your company from employees or hackers running off with reams of customers data. That's followed by a rant on "what I should have found on my Wi-Fi VoIP phone but didn't." Tune into Emerging Enterprise.

The news beat: Microsoft says it will charge $1.50 for beta 2 of Office 2007 starting on Wednesday. SanDisk buys M-Systems, a competing flash memory developer, for $1.6 billion. And Linksys announces a new wireless LAN product line for SMBs consisting of a router, access point and CardBus adapter.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 31, 2006 04:44 AM