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IBM plans to unveil Tuesday a line of small- and midsize-business Unix servers based on its own dual-core Power5 processor.

The new servers will use the IBM's existing Power5 as well as the Power5+, a new processor that combines two dual-core Power5s and their cache together in one module. IBM was able to combine the components by shrinking the existing Power5 by nearly 40 percent, said Jeff Howard, program director at IBM Systems and Technology Group. Each of the servers can be installed with Unix or Linux operating systems.

The systems, offered under the Express brand for SMB, include the p5 505 Express, a 1U rack-mount system with one 1.65GHz Power5, 1 Gbyte of memory, two 73.4-Gbyte hard drives, and a DVD-ROM starting at $3,750. The server also can be configured with two 1.5GHz or 1.65GHz Power5 processors.

Also available is a 4U rack-mount systems, the p5 520 Express. The two-way server carries a price of $11,896 for two 1.9GHz Power5+ processors, 2Gbytes of memory and two 73.4-Gbyte hard drives.

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• feature: RingToneManager for Expressive Content of audio files
  
• feature: Contact List accessible by Microsoft Active Accessibility
  
• feature: API: application-to-application communication
  
• feature: API notifications for contactlist selection and focus
  
• feature: API: set profile information
  
• feature: API: call forwarding via API
  
• feature: API: support expressive content files SET RINGTONE and AVATAR
  
• feature: API: added OPEN [PROFILE | USERINFO | CONFERENCE | SEARCH | OPTIONS | CALLHISTORY | CONTACTS | DIALPAD | SENDCONTACTS | IMPORTCONTACTS | BLOCKEDUSERS | GETTINGSTARTED | AUTHORIZATION ] commands
  
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• feature: number of friends displayed in Profile View form
  
• feature: possibility to set connecting sound from Options
  
• feature: added dynamic messages for help and tips
  
• feature: possibility to select and copy profile fields
  
• change: new layout for Getting Started Wizard
  
• change: Search window redesigned
  
• change: Add friend window redesigned
  
• Change: Import Contacts redesigned
  
• change: quicksearch on addressbar improved
  
• change: improved call related error messagas
  
• change: 'minimize' button minimizes Skype to taskbar
  
• change: warning dialaog added when calling to SkypeOut using callto: links
  
• change: option to disable authorization message popups
  
• change: MSN contact importer removed from Import Contacts
  
• change: upgrade prompt supressed if installer is launched with SILENT or VERYSILENT option
  
• change: removed latin spanish language
  
• change: option to view online release notes after installation removed
  
• change: option to create a Quick Launch icon removed from installer
  
• change: explanatory text in Profile View if user has not been online recently
  
• change: month names in Profile are translatable
  
• change: options dialog is changed to nonmodal
  
• change: Send Authorization dialog is changed to nonmodal
  
• change: main window minimum size changed
  
• change: new language files - Swedish (Anders Olsson), Finnish (Heino Keränen), Danish (Mathias Schwarz), Norwegian (Stig Auestad), German (Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli), Dutch (Kees Koenders), French (Fabrice Imperial), Italian (Conte Daniele), Portuguese Brazilian(Anna Nyström ), Hebrew (Ronen Ben-Naftali), Russian (Viktoria Randalainen/Tatjana Kruti), Polish (Ewa Czekalska/Karol Szastok), Spanish - (David Reche), Estonian (Eve Loopere), Japanese (Tomo Suzumaru(Livedoor)/Mayu Shimizu), Greek (Panagiotis Sidiropoulos/Magenta LTD), Chinese Traditional (Morden Chen/PChome Online), Chinese Simplified (Leon Yang/TOM Online), Korean - (Daum Communications Corp), Romanian - (Paraschiv Ion & co), Turkish (Emin Dede) Arabic, Korean (Eriksen Translations Inc), Hungarian (Mark Bender), Bulgarian (Nikolina Filipova, Nikolay Filipov) Czech (Petr Silon)
  
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• bugfix: improved Multi Chat behaviour on multiple monitors
  
• bugfix: authrequests do not pop up if your status is Do Not Disturb
  
• bugfix: optimized loading of user-language file
  
• bugfix: optimizations to have faster log-in
  
• bugfix: improved unicode handling on win98
  
• bugfix: status was incorrect in chat titlebar when disconnected
  
• bugfix: improved URL parsing in chat
  
• bugfix: addressbar search updated when new contact added
  
• bugfix: 'start skype when windows starts' option will revert to default
  
• bugfix: 'Enable All Sounds' option missed one checkbox in Options dialog
  
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• bugfix: toolbar texts not visible on clean install
  
• bugfix: improved error handling when selected sound file is too big
  
• bugfix: keybaord navigation in language editor
  
• bugfix: Ctrl+F in chat window shows non-active main window
  
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• bugfix: API: Error is returned if OPEN ADDAFRIEND command has too many parameters
  
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• bugfix: API: During voicemail recording SEARCH ACTIVECALLS returned call id
  
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