Buffalo Technology announced the latest addition to its high performance line of storage devices: the dual drive LinkStation Mini (LS-WS1.0TGL/R1). With its sleek, compact and light form factor, the new LinkStation Mini puts a massive 1TB in the palm of your hand while offering the same great features and protection that Buffalo’s NAS devices are known for. Buffalo will also soon offer a 500GB version of the LinkStation Mini.

The winners of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize were announced today and we’re pleased to finally be able to announce that own David Gewirtz’ ground-breaking investigative work into the national security flaws of the White House’s email infrastructure was accepted for consideration in the 2008 Pulitzer Letters competition. Our understanding is this was possibly the first time a technology-related book had been accepted as a Pulitzer Prize candidate.

David’s Where Have All The Emails Gone? didn’t win the big prize, but lost out in the end to The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander. Finalists in this category were The Cigarette Century by Allan Brandt and The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross.

We’re also pleased to announce that Where Have All The Emails Gone?, which has been holding in the Top 20 for more than three weeks, reached #1 last week for books on the Executive Branch at Amazon.com.

A growing workforce of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.

Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died suddenly.

Microsoft said on Friday a U.S. jury awarded Alcatel-Lucent $367.4 million in damages after finding that the software giant had violated two patents related to the user interface in its Windows operating system.

Microsoft, which will seek to have the verdict overturned, said Alcatel-Lucent was seeking $1.5 billion in damages related to the four patents named in the case. Microsoft said the jury found that Microsoft did not infringe on Alcatel’s video decoding technology patent.

Yahoo has three weeks to accept Microsoft’s $31-a-share cash-and-stock offer or Microsoft may lower its bid and take its offer to Yahoo investors, Microsoft said on Saturday.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in a letter dated April 5 and addressed to Yahoo’s board of directors that "now is the time" to negotiate final terms of a deal, which, valued at more than $40 billion would mark the biggest-ever takeover in the high-tech industry.

When it comes to being taken in by Internet fraudsters, men have a knack for losing cash, according to a new report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center.

Data compiled from more than 206,000 complaints received last year by the U.S. Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) shows that men lost $1.67 to every $1 lost by women in online fraud.

Life is a series of negotiations. A common myth is to see negotiation as the purview of people in pinstripes. Instead, negotiation is for every one who wants to be more successful in life. And while negotiation is often considered a face-to-face activity, many good negotiation strategies can apply to your email conversations as well.

Read this OutlookPower article.

Savvisoft has released Blueprint for Outlook 2.4, a major update of the printing addin for Microsoft Outlook, focused on reducing printing waste and improving email productivity.

Printing from Microsoft Outlook has always lacked basic features available in the other Microsoft Office products, and the latest Outlook 2007 has even removed the ability to print a single page or selection of an email. Blueprint for Outlook overcomes these limitations by putting you in control with a suite of useful features.

Microsoft will shutter its Windows XP line June 30, as planned, ceasing sales of Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home to retailers and direct OEMs, Microsoft confirmed to eWEEK April 3.

The statement from Redmond executives ends weeks of speculation that Microsoft would extend the life of the operating system as users turn up their nose at Vista, the operating system meant to supplant XP, and OEMs argue lighter versions of desktops and notebooks don’t have the juice to run Vista.

Microsoft plans to release eight security bulletins on April 8 to patch multiple security vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer users. As part of its pre-release advance notice mechanism, the Redmond, Wash., software vendor said five of the eight bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft’s highest severity rating.