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February 28, 2008 | Comments: (0)

Daily news beat for Feb. 28, 2008

Google says that today JotSpot is being reborn as Google Sites, a wiki component of Google Apps that it hopes will provide a less expensive alternative to Microsoft's SharePoint or Lotus Notes.

PayPal cautions against using Apple's Safari browser, citing the lack of two important anti-phishing security features as the reason it did not make the list of recommended browers.

What with data-laden laptops disappearing, an uptick in attacks, and the looming possibility of an audit, healthcare specialists are finding that cyberattacks are a growing threat and, as such, are ratcheting up efforts to protect patient information.

The U.S. DOJ and FTC both give an affirmative nod to Oracle's bid for BEA, bringing the deal closer to an end, though it still has to gain approval from the European Union.

A cadre of storage titans came out to back Windows Server 2008 at Microsoft's launch event on Wednesday, one of them calling the new OS "an opportunity we can't afford to miss."

NetSuite rolls out NS-BOS, a package of tools it hopes will spur more ISV's to write applications on top of the NetSuite platform.

And next month standards bodies will cast another vote to decide whether or not to adopt Microsoft’s Open Office XML document format. But while proponents and opponents debate the virtues of approval or rejection, the more apt question has become Does the OOXML vote even matter?

Posted by Tom Sullivan on February 28, 2008 09:38 AM


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