eWeek Newsbreak, March 10, 2009

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod Beckstrom is the latest national cyber-security director to bail, complaining in his resignation letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano of erratic funding and that the National Security Agency unfairly dominates cyber-policy.

Jive Software wants to take some market share of its own with its Social Business Software platform. Jive claims that its software’s collaboration and profile features could make it "Facebook for the enterprise."

Dell is rolling out its Latitude E6400 laptop, the PC maker's latest fully rugged notebook. As it competes against Panasonic, Lenovo and other manufacturers in the "rugged" computing category, Dell hopes this new device, which combines business-laptop internal specs with military-grade protection features, will allow it to claim market share.

Microsoft launches a Windows Marketplace for Mobile portal, and plans to include an application marketplace on Windows Mobile 6.5 devices.

American Idol now has its own iPhone application. iPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to get videos of the current 13 finalists in a confessional format, along with bios, pictures, news and other behind-the-scenes content. The app only costs $1.99 and will be updated weekly, with the show.