Why is this man smiling?

Whether you’re expecting an audit or a lawsuit, it’s always good to have a paper trail. Enter Fortiva. This archive service offloads the entire process to a set of secure, hosted servers and offers the CIO or compliance officers an easy to navigate dashboard for picking out emails, even out of a massive database. The service is SEC 17a-4 compliant and fingerprints messages for authenticity, ensuring hackers don’t get in and change all your “buys” to “sells.”

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AJAX and data push make beautiful music together. The value is two-fold: customers get useful, attractive interfaces while ensuring that the data in question — be it numerical or even headline news — arrives on their desk fresh, crispy, and with little latency.

Lightstreamer provides a push engine for data distribution that sends information to any compatible browser. They have four products, seemingly named after Starbuck’s drink sizes (Moderato, Allegro, etc.) The heaviest package, Vivace, includes SDK for web client and .NET developm,ent along with unlimited concurrent users and thick or zero client support, depending on your in-house needs.

The software is free on a trial basis while pricing depends on the implementation (”One Moderato, please, my good man!”) and number of seats.

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From a major foreign bank in New York we receive word that one member of the IT team has visited the office bathroom on many an occasion and found a young man - or woman - hiding in the stall burping loudly and swearing like a sailor. This image, straight out of Naked Lunch, reminds us that perhaps two Ranch 1 chicken sandwiches and a big Coke does not a healthy lunch make.

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“How to Get Your CFO to Pay for a…” is a recurring feature on WSTDaily and will discuss convincing the firm’s money czar to buy you the toys and gadgets we most want. That said, let’s discuss the SK3 from T-Mobile.

T-Mobile’s SK3 is a powerful - but not very smart - messaging device. Designed for the “young and the young at heart,” according to T-Mobile execs, the SK3 will look great at the club and ensure that you get emails and IM messages on the road. Best of all, the SK3 has a terminal program for logging into remote servers though secure sockets or telnet.

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