bMighty News Flash: Tuesday May 5, 2009

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

• CrossLoop Screen Sharing For Macs -- Peer-to-peer screen sharing app that lets a remote users take over your computer
• HyTrust Forms New Virtualization Ecosystem -- HyTrust Appliance Community Edition for SMBS available for download
• MacBooks Lead Consumer Reports -- Ranking finds current generation of Apple MacBooks delivers better value for money than Windows notebooks

MOBILE

• Android Will Spur Ad Growth -- Forecasts predict acceleration for mobile ads when Google Android phone reach market next year
• BlackBerry Gets Google Apps Support -- Google will release software to support its e-mail and calendar services on BlackBerry devices in July
• Filemaker Releases Bento For iPhone -- Mobile version of the template-driven "database for the rest of us" runs on the iPhone OS with two-way desktop syncing
• BlackBerry Strikes Deals With HP, Cisco -- RIM announces new API, next gen BlackBerry Enterprise Server, and new partnerships
• BlackBerry Storm 2 Coming -- RIM reconfirms second edition of 3rd best selling in U.S. is in development

NETWORKING & COMMUNICATIONS

• Managed VoIP Doubles -- 50% Growth for managed VoIP in Q1, SIP trunking revenue predicted to grow 89% annually through 2013
• SIP Print Partner With Zultys On Bundled UC Solution -- VOIP call recording specialist SIP Print and open standards UC specialist Zultys combine on UC solution

SECURITY

• Web 2.0 Hacking Increases In Q1 2009 -- Secure Enterprise 2.0 Forum finds Web 2.0 sites are now the premier target for hackers, amounting to 21% of all reported hacking incidents

SERVICES

• MailShadow OnLine Cloud-Based E-Mail Sync Service -- Cemaphore Systems service offers real-time migration, replication, and backup of e-mail data between different email systems
• 3Tera, Tap In Systems Partner On Cloud Monitoring -- Integrated solution enables customers to monitor multiple cloud computing environments, across different platforms
• SeeWhy Rolls Out Free Abandonment Tracking Service -- Average site loses $10 every second to abandonment, only 9 percent of websites follow up within 24 hours
• Hubspan, IBM Announce Cloud-Based Integration Platform -- Hubspan on-demand integration platform combines with IBM WebSphere integration software to create WebSpan
• Google Opens Contact Manager -- Users of Google Docs, Picasa, and Calendar can use, without being Gmail users