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Although I'm a hopelessly U.S.-centric person, I still find it engaging from time to time to gauge the opinions of those outside Uncle Sam's borders about what they consider stellar products. One indicator of those opinions is awards like those bestowed in August by the European Imaging and Sound As...
Google has added the third leg to its online suite of office applications. The new addition, dubbed "Presentations," is analogous to Microsoft PowerPoint. Now that Google has a full-fledged productivity suite, it has shortened its name from "Google Docs and Spreadsheet" to simply "Google Docs." Afte...
Users of Microsoft's Windows operating system may be surprised to learn that Microsoft has been secretly updating their PCs even after they've activated a feature that seemingly prevents automatic updates. So far, discovery that Microsoft is changing code on users' PCs without their knowledge is lim...
While watching "Who Wants to Be a Super Hero" with my six-year-old the other night, I became intrigued by the way the show segued to commercials. It froze the video and transformed the freeze frame into comic book art. That kind of metamorphosis can be performed on digital photos, too. Some photo ed...
Adobe on Thursday offered a sneak preview of its upcoming Flash Media Server 3, which will be released in the first quarter of next year. The new release will offer nearly double the performance of its predecessor, Adobe said, as it combines traditional streaming media capabilities with a flexible e...
With outlets like Flickr, Shutterfly and Photobucket, there's been a considerable decrease in demand for programs for creating photo albums that can be uploaded to personal Web space. Still, if you have an account with an Internet Service Provider, you likely have megabytes of Web space begging to b...
Making use of distributed computing, such as service-oriented architecture and integrated Web application services, means greater complexity and security design challenges for organizations and IT managers. Open standards play a big role in developing and making better use of efficient and effective...
Software designers and developers are being challenged to build efficient security measures into their project work as computing is increasingly distributed via Web application services and service-oriented architecture. Research recently conducted by the Ponemon Institute and CipherOptics found tha...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced details and a timeframe for the release of Vista's first service pack, giving a heads-up to businesses waiting on information needed to plan possible deployment of the company's latest operating system. "Now is the time and the time is now: Let's talk about Windows S...
When ripping and playing digitized music was a novelty, media players basked in the hot software limelight. There were articles about the merits of one over another, about "wars" among vendors and lots of noise when a new version of a player arrived in the market. Today, though, new releases of medi...
A server problem at Microsoft over the weekend caused the company's Windows Genuine Advantage validation system to falsely accuse legitimate users of Windows Vista and XP of running pirated software, resulting in the disbanding of some features for those users until the problem was fixed. The proble...
Nokia users in 11 countries can now access Windows Live services on their mobile devices, thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and Nokia. The pairing of the king of software and the world's largest mobile device manufacturer is a move toward "empowering the 'mobile lifestyle,'" according to the...
Mind mapping, for the uninitiated, is a visual method for organizing ideas -- a sort of project management tool for the mind. It often involves lots of thoughts in "bubbles" connected by lines. The language used to describe the elements of a mind map parallels that used by software outliners, except...
Adobe Systems has upgraded its Flash Player with support for the H.264 video-encoding standard and improved audio-compression technology, the company announced Tuesday. Dubbed "Moviestar," the upgrade permits the playback of video encoded using H.264, the same standard deployed in Blu-ray and HD DVD...
IBM and Sun Microsystems announced Thursday the two long-time rivals have formed a partnership that will bring Sun's Solaris operating system to IBM servers. The "comprehensive relationship" will see both companies embark on a mission to jointly serve enterprise clients seeking to run the OS on IBM'...
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