CrystalVoice Communications, provider of enterprise voice communications software solutions, announced it has incorporated Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) support into its family of business-class Voice over Internet (VoI) solutions. The addition of SIP expands the number of platform providers able to take advantage of CrystalVoice’s solutions to deliver high-quality voice over the Internet, including IP phone systems, conference bridges, ACDs, and voice gateways.

TabletKiosk is announcing the release of their next generation Sahara Slate PCs called the i-Series that will be based on the Intel Pentium M technology. TabletKiosk’s new flagship product, the Sahara Pen Tablet i213, is based on the Intel Centrino mobile technology and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, using a combination of new and industry standard power management features to extend battery life.

Sony’s second generation of DVD+R Double Layer (DL) burners support 16X DVD+R recording. The 710 series marks Sony’s seventh generation of Dual RW drives, and can also support 16X DVD+R, 8X DVD-R, 4X DVD

New antispam technology standards are on the way that promise to hit spammers where it hurts the most, their wallets. This month, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) reviewed several email authentication proposals, agreeing to fast-track a submission from Microsoft known as Sender ID. The group also reviewed submissions for signature-based authentication from companies such as Cisco Systems and Yahoo and recommended the authors combine and resubmit those proposals together.

I realize this story isn’t exactly topic-related, but it’s so cool I just had to share. Scientists in the US have developed a novel technique to make bulk quantities of glass from alumina, or aluminum oxide. Alumina can form glass if it is alloyed with calcium or rare-earth oxides, but the required quenching rate can be as high as 1000 degrees per second, which makes it difficult to produce bulk quantities.

A worm that has the capability of using webcams to spy on users is circulating across the Net. Rbot-GR, the latest variant of a prolific worm series, spreads via network shares, exploiting a number of Microsoft security vulnerabilities to drop a backdoor Trojan horse program on vulnerable machines as it propagates, but Rbot-GR comes pre-loaded with functionality specifically designed to control webcam and microphones.

A new variant of Download.ject is in the wild, using instant messaging to spread. Like the first strain, this Trojan horse is designed to open backdoors and steal financial data.

Ohio’s attorney general said the state is suing electronics retailer Best Buy, alleging the company repackaged used goods and sold them as new as well as failing to honor several consumer agreements. In a press release, Ohio attorney general Jim Petro said he has received hundreds of complaints in the last few years over Best Buy practices.

Thanko Limited announced a new 2.5-inch hard drive case dubbed the “Victoria 120,” which uses a combination of fingerprint recognition and hardware level encryption in an attempt to secure your data from third parties.

MyDoom is back with a new variation that downloads a particularly nasty Trojan. This variation, also known as MyDoom.Q@mm, Worm_Ratos.A, and I-worm.Win32.Ratos, was discovered on August 15th, and jumped to a medium-level threat very quickly. While MyDoom.S doesn’t really do much, it downloads a particulary nasty trojan called Backdoor.Ratos.A.