DataViz has released an update to RoadSync, its Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync enabled client. RoadSync now supports select mobility features of Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 on Symbian OS. Based on the Exchange Server 2003 ActiveSync protocol licensed directly from Microsoft, RoadSync offers secure, wireless, direct push synchronization of corporate Outlook email, attachments, calendar and contacts for non-Microsoft smartphones and mobile devices, including the popular Sony Ericsson P910 and Nokia 9300. In addition DataViz has also confirmed its commitment to develop RoadSync for both Symbian s60 3rd edition and UIQ 3.0. DataViz will be demonstrating their enterprise-grade mobile Office products; RoadSync and Documents To Go at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain from February 13-16, 2006.

How does a small business send large files that are too massive or too sensitive by email? Large corporations often solve this problem with large custom-built extranets, but small businesses have typically resorted to burning and shipping the files on CD. ShareFile makes the functionality of a large corporate extranet available to small businesses in a package that is affordable, easy to use, and professional. Files can be shared in two ways with ShareFile. The first is similar to traditional FTP, with files uploaded to password-protected online folders. Though unlike FTP, ShareFile transfers files securely and boasts robust features such as easy user administration, e-mail alerts, keyword searches on folders and files, and virus scans on all files. The second way to share files, ideal for easy one-time file transfers, is to send large files via a hyperlink in an e-mail message. ShareFile can send a hyperlink to any e-mail address, allowing recipients to download files or entire folders by just clicking the link with no login required.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says his company’s legal dispute with the European Union is relatively unimportant in view of the company’s overall strong relations with the 25-member bloc. "The fact that there is a legal issue–that’s not the overall relationship. The overall relationship is fantastic. Today, this (dispute) is not very important," Gates said Thursday in an interview on private Polish television TVN 24 in remarks translated into Polish and retranslated by Reuters.

Companies and individuals heeded the warning–some may call it "hype"–about a file-destroying computer worm known as "Kama Sutra," helping minimize its damage Friday. One Italian city shut down its computers as a precaution, but otherwise the worm’s trigger date arrived with relatively few reports of problems. For days, experts warned that the worm could corrupt documents using the most common file types, including ".doc," ".pdf," and ".zip." It affects most versions of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, prompting the software giant to issue a warning.

With the clock ticking on a Feb. 3 D-Day for the activation of the destructive "Blackworm" worm payload, anti-virus vendors are rushing to release free removal tools to help contain the damage. The worm, also known as Kama Sutra, MyWife.E or Nyxem.E, uses the lure of sexually explicit photographs to trick email users into executing an attachment that contains a payload capable of permanently corrupting a number of common document format files. Microsoft has already issued an advisory with pointers to its Windows Live Safety Center, which offers a free scanner that detects and removes the worm.

Mozilla on Wednesday released an update for Firefox 1.5 that fixes several security flaws and makes other changes aimed at improving the open-source Web browser. The update, Firefox version 1.5.0.1, patches a total of eight security vulnerabilities. One is deemed "critical" by Mozilla, four are rated "moderate" risk, and three are tagged "low" risk. The more serious flaws could let an attacker take over a system running a vulnerable version of Firefox, according to Mozilla’s security alerts.

Competing hacker groups in Russia were peddling the exploit code responsible for the Windows Meta File attacks last December for $4,000, according to security company Kaspersky Lab. The WMF flaw unsettled security experts after they found that the virus-writing community discovered the vulnerability before they did. A slew of Trojan programs were written to try and take advantage of the exploit. The British Parliament was attacked by hackers who tried to exploit the WMF flaw. MessageLabs, an email filtering provider for the U.K. government, said last month that targeted emails were sent to various individuals within government departments in an attempt to take control of their computers. The emails contained the exploit code.

An independent security researcher has pinpointed a denial-of-service flaw in Microsoft’s brand new Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview just moments after installing the security-centric browser makeover. Ferris, known online as "badpack3t," found that specially crafted HTML could cause IE7 to crash because "urlmon.dll" does not properly parse the "file://" protocol. A proof-of-concept demonstration has been published on the Security-Protocols site, along with a screenshot with proof of the browser crash.

Microsoft livened up what had been a stodgy enterprise-focused conference at VSLive, and gave developers a peek at some of the newfangled types of things they will see at the software giant’s MIX 06 conference next month in Las Vegas. In a round-robin demonstration of new and upcoming technologies, Microsoft officials showed technology targeting home video, instant messaging, dynamic online satellite imagery, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) objects and more. James Gordon, Microsoft’s program manager for the MSN Search API and SDK, demonstrated how developers can use the MSN Search API to build search-based applications.

Recosoft has released PDF2Office Professional v3.0. PDF2Office Professional v3.0 easily converts PDF files to Word, PowerPoint, RTF, AppleWorks and more. PDF2Office Professional v3.0 sports 200+ new features and enhancements and provides the capability to convert PDF files to the Microsoft PowerPoint 98-2004 Macintosh and PowerPoint 97-2003 Windows formats. PDF2Office Professional v3.0 also introduces a Document Inspector, which provides detailed information about a PDF file and a PostScript font matching, substitution and scaling engine.