iNet.Integrator V2.0 has been released to customers with full support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and includes the iNet Composer plug-in for Visual Studio 2005. Organizations can quickly support extending their SAP R/3 system with capabilities such as using SharePoint Portal Server as a full function portal, enabling SQL Server-driven BI using SAP R/3 and BW Info objects, or using the Information Bridge Framework to support Knowledge worker collaboration and workflows with SAP & non-SAP information. iNet.Integrator enables companies with SAP R/3 to extend and enhance those ERP systems to become real time, eBusiness platforms by making optimal use of Microsoft information worker, portal, database and desktop tools. This unique technology instantly links SAP systems with Microsoft platforms and dramatically simplifies the interaction between the two worlds as .NET Framework-based developers do not need SAP technical expertise to quickly create composited SAP.NET eBusiness apps in just minutes. Such SAP to Microsoft linked solutions can now be deployed in a fraction the time and cost of past middleware approaches.

As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft plans to release on Tuesday one security bulletin for the Windows operating system. The security bulletin is deemed "critical," Microsoft’s highest risk rating, the company said in a notice posted on its Web site on Thursday. Last month’s "Patch Tuesday" included nine bulletins covering 14 Windows flaws. Some of the patches have caused trouble for users since their Oct. 11 release. Microsoft rates as critical any security threat that could allow a malicious Internet worm to spread without any action required on the part of the user.

Wavigo has just added support for Google IM (instant messaging) and GMail notification, in addition to already supporting Skype, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and ICQ, in its suite of voice and text communication options. Wavigo includes high quality Voice-over-IP, SMS-text messaging, file transfers/sharing, news, sports, weather, stock feeds, an advanced Internet and travel searching facility, podcast reader, and a full featured multi-media player. Free to download and use, Wavigo enables computers to be full featured world-wide communications, information and entertainment tools. With this release Wavigo introduces the seamless link to Google. With Wavigo, users will now be able to have one product to chat with Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Skype and ICQ users, and even transparently conference across them. Wavigo supports the highest quality of voice over the Internet, using dialup or broadband.

As the owner of one of the most visited Windows XP Web sites, Marc Liron, Microsoft MVP and Digital Media Evangelist, wanted to help give something back to the community that has inspired him to continue providing Windows XP support to home users over the last three years. Titled as the, Pay What You Can Afford, project, Marc Liron has also been able to give away 150 free CD sets to those who could simply not afford to pay for any training at all. The list of recipients includes those made homeless by hurricane Katrina, those on state benefits, the retired surviving on small pensions, etc. The whole project has been so well received by the online Windows XP community that Marc has setup a Blog where customers and site visitors can read each other comment about the bold project.

Active Desktop Calendar by XemiComputers is a personal information manager with standard set of features like notes/appointments, tasks and alarms. However, it can also integrate with Microsoft Outlook to read appointments and tasks you keep there, and show them on the desktop together with data from its own calendar. The program organizes calendar data in layers so you can create different categories like business, personal, holidays, birthdays. When connection with Outlook is enabled, a special data layer with Outlook’s appointments and tasks is added and maintained automatically. On the desktop everything comes out in a compact form as Active Desktop Calendar blends data from all enabled layers and then integrates its components, calendar and data bar, with existing desktop wallpaper.

Loaded with a wide range of social networking and collaborative content features, Wireclub.com is positioning itself as the first site of its kind to offer users an uncompromised, all-inclusive Web 2.0 experience. "Until now, users had to resort to different sites to publish their online journals, share pictures, chat and connect with like-minded individuals," says Rod Furlan, CEO of Wireclub.com. "Wireclub.com is the first portal to offer unmatched feature convergence, in terms of coverage and sheer ease of use. And you can’t beat the price; Wireclub.com, unlike most Web 2.0 convergence portals, is 100 per cent free."

Small to mid-size businesses can cost-effectively manage their information systems with the Exchange Hosting Solution provided by HostLabs, a premier exchange server hosting service that has become a global leader in hosting services for Windows applications and Exchange expertise. The HostLabs exchange server hosting service includes global networking support, streamlined administration, nightly backups at the mailbox level, and archive solutions. HostLabs also provides live 24/7 technical support and wireless device support.

Chinese authorities have blocked a pro-democracy Weblog after it was nominated for a freedom of expression award by a German radio station, a press freedom group said Thursday. The blog, titled Wang Yi’s Microphone, dealt with "sensitive subjects" and was maintained by a teacher from Sichuan province. China’s communist government encourages Internet use for education and business, but blocks material deemed subversive or pornographic. Dissidents have been arrested under vaguely worded national security laws for posting items critical of the government. One of Wang’s most recent posts dealt with a campaign by peasants in the southeastern province of Guangdong to remove a village chief accused of corruption.

Recently, researcher Andrey Bayora revealed that it is possible to fool antivirus scanners into thinking that a file under scan is one kind, when it is in actuality something entirely different. The exploit prepends a header byte that convinces the scanner the file is not the type the suffix averred it was. Because routine prepended data can be of variable length it is extremely difficult (or impossible) to locate the original start offset of a file. It would seem the only way out of this is to scan the entire file for headers, which would greatly decrease the throughput of the virus scanner. There seems to be no workaround, save a total redesign of how scanning engines work.

NXPowerLite 2.0 can reduce the size of presentation files by as much as 95% with no discernible loss of quality. Completely re-written from the ground up, it’s faster and more effective than previous versions of the product and features a streamlined user interface. Neuxpower has also released NXPowerLite 2.0 Integrated Edition–an installable version of NXPowerLite that lets users optimize their presentations from the PowerPoint menu bar, or by right-clicking them in Windows Explorer.