From Compliance Pipeline.com…

Everdream Corp., a desktop management company, plans to launch a service “in the near future” that can delete sensitive files on lost or stolen laptops, remotely.

Pre-installed software would automatically locate and alert the machine to delete sensitive data the next time the laptop connects to Everdream’s desktop management hosting service through the Internet.

Software, known as an “agent,” communicates via the network every 15 minutes to Everdream’s control center looking for new patches or virus updates. The same process also would allow the software maker to delete files.

Companies using the managed service, along with automated online backup would have immediate access to important data on the missing machine. “We’re very interested in the new feature that would wipe company information from the drive,” said Doug Harr, vice president of IT and operations at Portal Software Inc.

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Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM; TSX: RIM) and NTP, Inc. (NTP) today announced that they have signed a definitive licensing and settlement agreement. All terms of the agreement have been finalized and the litigation against RIM has been dismissed by a court order this afternoon. The agreement eliminates the need for any further court proceedings or decisions relating to damages or injunctive relief.

RIM has paid NTP $612.5 million in full and final settlement of all claims against RIM, as well as for a perpetual, fully-paid up license going forward. This amount includes money already escrowed by RIM to date.

The licensing and settlement agreement relates to all patents owned and controlled by NTP and covers all of RIM’s products, services and technologies. NTP grants RIM an unfettered right to continue its business, including its BlackBerry^® related business. The resolution permits RIM and its partners to sell RIM products and services completely free and clear of any claim by NTP, including any claims that NTP may have against wireless carriers, channel partners, suppliers or customers in relation to RIM products or services, (including BlackBerry Connect and Built-In technology), or in relation to third party products and services, to the extent they are used in connection with RIM products and services.
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From Banking Systems and Technology Online…

If you’re a Baby Boomer, you may be dreaming about retiring in a few years, but maybe not. Perhaps you’ll need to keep working to pay the bills, or maybe you just want to keep busy. Employers, worried about an impending exodus of retiring Boomers, are starting to look into ways of keeping you on the job longer.

Within the next four years, nearly a third of all U.S. workers-including tens of thousands of tech pros-will be over the age of 50, leaving a potential gap of business-tech and vertical industry skills, which also could be worsened on the front-end by a shortage of young people entering the technology fields.

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