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A newsletter published by TechTarget   November 05, 2003 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  Swing Software: WHY DON'T YOU USE EXCEL AS A REPORTING TOOL? >>  Dice: Visit the SearchDomino.com Career Center, powered by Dice  Today's Highlights   >>  LEAD STORY:  Microsoft ponies up reward money to catch hackers >>  NEWS:  IBM, Microsoft polish portals >>  TAKE OUR MEMBER POLL:  Exchange 2003 temptation >>  THE MISSING LINK:  Tech downturn brings a slump in humor, too  News and Top Stories   LEAD STORY Microsoft ponies up reward money to catch hackers  (SearchWin2000.com) Microsoft gathered this morning with U.S. and international law enforcement officials to detail the software maker's offer of reward money to catch those who write computer viruses and worms. More on this topic: >  Read up on SearchDomino.com's security tips. SPONSORED BY: SWING SOFTWARE WHY DON'T YOU USE EXCEL AS A REPORTING TOOL? Chart your Notes data. Transform any view to Excel reports. Let users re-categorize Notes data using PivotTables. Create report libraries and share them among users. Populate Excel forms with Notes data. Save time and effort in creating your other office documents: invoices, purchase orders, personalized letters, printing labels and much more. FREE TRIAL. NEWS IBM, Microsoft polish portals (eWEEK) eWEEK Labs compares the highly anticipated IBM WebSphere Portal 5.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with six other enterprise information portals and finds they are worth the wait. NEWS Compliance fears exaggerated, report says (SearchCIO.com) Vendors using the threat of compliance deadlines to sell products are wasting their time. A new report says CEOs aren't driven by fear and are not buying into the hype. DAILY HEADLINES All headlines, including those below, are available from our news page.   VIEW ALL NEWS AND TOP STORIES  Announcements & Links   TAKE OUR MEMBER POLL Exchange 2003 temptation Are you tempted to move to the new Exchange 2003? SPONSORED BY: DICE Visit the SearchDomino.com Career Center powered by Dice and search through over 27,000 tech jobs -- including titles such as Domino developer/administrator, systems analyst and software engineer. Get e-mails when a listing matches your search criteria, access career resources and more. Visit the SearchDomino.com Career Center. SEARCHDOMINO.COM ACHIEVER AWARDS Now accepting nominations Have you bent Lotus Notes or Domino to do something truly original to design, build or manage Domino? If so, we are looking for you. We have kicked off the 2003 SearchDomino.com Achiever Awards, and nominating yourself or an innovative team is as easy as clicking on the link below. Nominations will be accepted only until Nov. 14, so tell us about your project today! >>  Get more details and submit your nomination. NOVEMBER TIPS CONTEST Win an arcade game for your desktop! Whoever submits the best tip in November will win a Bulls-eye Ball desktop arcade game. The object of the game is to boink marble-sized balls into a trampoline and into the bulls-eye. The game comes with a score-keeping voice, music, flashing lights and sound effects. So, got a nice shortcut? Or have you figured something out about Domino that you think isn't public knowledge? Send it to us and enter November's contest. >>  Check out the prize. >>  Submit your tip. THE MISSING LINK Tech downturn brings a slump in humor, too Top techies have long been known as pranksters, but it seems that, when revenues are down, Silicon Valley's full of frowns. A former Apple Computer employee turned comic explains it this way: When you're successful you're irreverent, and when you're not you're obnoxious. Currently Intel, IBM and Sun are sponsoring satirical Web sites that poke fun at competitors and themselves -- but unless profits skyrocket, the only thing that might put the "silly" back in Silicon Valley would be installing Moe, Larry and Curly on IBM's board of directors. Nyuk nyuk nyuk. FREE TIPS FROM SEARCHDOMINO.COM! Enter your e-mail and start receiving Administrator Tips. E-mail    Not a member? We'll activate your membership with your subscription.   Contact Us   SITE EDITOR Joyce Chutchian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send your comments, opinions, best practices and ideas. NEWS EDITOR Jon Panker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send in your news, product announcements and poll ideas. ASSISTANT SITE EDITOR Dana McCurley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send your white papers, best Web links, Ask the Experts questions and tips. (Please submit your ATE questions and tips via SearchDomino.com.) DIRECTOR OF SITE SALES Gabrielle DeRussy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sponsor this or any other TechTarget newsletter. 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