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Digium introduced its first IP handsets on Feb. 1, with three models aimed at the ordinary worker, the power user and the big bosses. The D40, D50 and D70 are expected to become available in April, with prices starting at $129 for the two-line D40. The new handsets are designed specifically to leverage the features of Digium's Asterisk communications platform and the Switchvox line of unified communications systems. These phones boast as part of their software an application engine that includes a JavaScript API that allows direct interaction with core features of the phone. The Switchboard Web interface that Digium builds into Switchvox systems is now available for the phone itself, putting the user in control of advanced features such as presence management, queue monitoring, recording and voicemail control. The D40 and D50 are meant for use with 100M-bps Fast Ethernet connections, while the D70 can take advantage of Gigabit Ethernet where available. - ...

Adobe says it will deliver its Adobe Creative Cloud offering this spring, featuring Adobe Creative Suite 6, Adobe Touch Apps, Muse 1.0 and a new preview of Adobe Edge, among other things. - Adobes new cloud initiative aimed at creative professionals, known as Adobe Creative Cloud, will go live this spring. Adobe announced the Adobe Creative Cloud at its MAX 2011 conference last October. In an interview, Heidi Voltmer, director of product marketing for Web and interactive solutions at ...

Apple released its first security update for 2012 and the first major update for OS X Lion. Apple released 39 patches addressing 52 CVE issues and revoked DigiCert Malaysia. - Apple patched a slew of security issues in its OS X operating system in a fairly large security update to prevent potential drive-by-attacks and to fix issues in third-party products. The OS X Security Updates cover Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) and Lion (OS X 10.7), according to the support article r...

AMD executives are looking to change the way their chips are designed to take greater advantage of their compute and graphics capabilities, and to integrate third-party intellectual property. - Advanced Micro Devices executives are laying out a roadmap for future chips that they say will be fundamentally different from larger rival Intel and leverage the work theyve done integrating the graphics and CPUs onto a single piece of silicon. At the companys annual Financial Analyst Day Feb. 2 i...

Oracle patched three products to address a vulnerability in Web Application frameworks that could cause a denial of service due to hashing collisions. - Oracle quietly released patches for its Oracle Fusion Middleware and Sun Products Suite to address a handful of security flaws. The out-of-band patches addressed denial-of-service vulnerabilities that were present in several Oracle products, the company said in a security alert issued Jan. 31. A ...

2011 went into the books as a year of environmental disasters on an unprecedented global scale that have affected the lives and livelihoods of billions of people. The United States alone set a record with 12 separate billion-dollar weather/climate disasters in 2011, with an aggregate damage total of approximately $52 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Thus, data backup and recovery has become a hot topic among IT managers. With this as background, data protection provider Acronis and the Ponemon Institute did some research to see how SMBs are approaching disaster recovery. The result is Acronis' second annual Disaster Recovery Index, released Feb. 1, which audited 18 countries and nearly 6,000 IT personnel. According to the survey findings in this report, a typical SMB today manages more than 100 servers, desktops and laptops and produces almost 40TB of fresh data each year. That is an awful lot of data to protect. The following slide show explains some of the research highlights. - ...

Facebook filed for its initial public offering as expected Feb. 1, ending a week of hype, buzz and punditry that had financial and Internet analysts predicting the social network giant's initial public offering would be the biggest in the history of the Internet. The company will trade under the ticker symbol “FB,” but has not revealed whether it will trade on the NASDAQ or NYSE. While Facebook will go on touting its Like buttons for Web publishers and hawking its Timeline user interface for consumers and applications alike, the company's financial statements will be poked, prodded and pored over by hundreds of experts looking to divine just how big an Internet player Facebook is now and can become 5, 10, 15 years down the road. Facebook may be the biggest IPO to date, but it isn't the only game in town. In this slide show, eWEEK takes a look at some of the top Internet company IPOs of the past couple of years, along with some obvious earlier blockbuster debuts. Plus, we make our logical guess for whom we think the next IPO will be. - ...

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its Kinect for Windows SDK and runtime, expanding the Kinect's possibilities beyond the Xbox 360. - Microsoft has made the version 1.0 of its Kinect for Windows software development kit and runtime available for download. “Looking towards the future, we are planning on releasing updates to our SDK and runtime 2-3 times per year,” Craig Eisler, general manager of Kinect for Windows, wrote in ...

Sprint and ZTE have teamed up to offer a 7-inch Android-running 3G tablet for $100 with a two-year contract. Will it distract consumer attention from the $200 Kindle Fire? - Sprint will begin selling ZTE's first tablet for North America Feb. 5. In a world of fast-selling Apple iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tabs, the ZTE Optik is likely to attract attention for its selling price: $100 with a two-year service agreement. The Optik runs Android 3.2, known as Honeycomb, an...

Mozilla's Firefox 10 is relatively light on new user features, but includes a variety of new tools for developers, particularly those creating multimedia experiences. - In keeping with its rapid release cadence, Mozilla has released Firefox 10.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux. While the latest browser version features relatively few cosmetic changes, there are some under-the-hood additions that could prove vital for developers trying to create next-generation Web exper...