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Microsoft plans to submit a new photo format to an international standards group that it claims offers the highest quality images available with improved compression techniques. The format, dubbed "HD Photo" -- formerly called "Windows Media Photo" -- is taking aim at the JPEG format, a 15-year old ...

Microsoft jumped into the Voice over Internet Provider market Wednesday with the announcement that business users will be able to test out a beta version of its VoIP and unified communications server, Office Communications Server 2007, and unified communications client, Office Communicator 2007, lat...

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Mixcraft: Music Making Made Easy

Of the three pillars of digital lifestyle applications -- video, photos and music -- music remains a bit of a mystery to many users. That's ironic because sharing digital music files was one of the first applications byte-stylers flocked to. However, while many users have graduated from merely shari...

Last year, when Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced plans to launch a new search engine in the first half of 2007, everyday users of this now ubiquitous tool wondered what Wales could do that Google couldn't. However, the search engine community knew better. Google may be an official verb in the...

Cisco Systems is now offering customers an upgraded version of its software and network equipment that links desktop computers to cell phones and other mobile devices. The new wireless client software extends desk phone functions to a variety of smartphones and handheld devices, and supports BlackBe...

IBM has become the first vendor to incorporate Google Gadgets into its commercial portal software, WebSphere, the two tech companies announced Wednesday. Users of WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Portal Express v. 6.0 will have some 4,000 free-of-charge add-ons they can create, customize and use withi...

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Patrolling Network Security With NetTrooper

Like many home keyboard jockeys, I view my wireless network as a black box. I set it up to share my broadband Internet connection. It does that. So I leave well enough alone. That doesn't mean, though, that my curiosity isn't aroused from time to time, and I feel an urge to poke around with the netw...

Last year, when Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced plans to launch a new search engine in the first half of 2007, everyday users of this now ubiquitous tool wondered what Wales could do that Google couldn't. However, the search engine community knew better. Of course, Google reset the benchmark...

With Google Apps, It's Game On

With the release of Google Apps Premier Edition, there's little doubt that Google has its sights set squarely on Microsoft and the market for office software. Add in the fact that marquee names are on board, including Procter & Gamble for the new software suite, and there's clearly at least some...

Adobe and Photobucket.com have teamed up to give the site's 35 million subscribers free access to basic video remixing and editing technology online. Users will be abel to incorporate music, effects, transitions and titles into their videos. "At Photobucket, we're committed to helping our users get...

Google Apps, first launched as a free service in August 2006, is now a commercial product available to users for $50 per user account per year. It debuts with Procter & Gamble Global Business Services as a marquee account -- not that Google needed one. Since its initial launch in August, more th...

Microsoft on Tuesday released the final versions of six new tools designed to help businesses make the migration to its newly released operating system, Windows Vista. The tools can assist business users at each stage in their upgrade to the next-generation OS, according to Microsoft. "Broadly deplo...

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Turning Snapshots Into Works of Art

Giving digital images an artful twist isn't anything new in the computer world, but leave it to Alien Skin Software to take the technique to another level of elegance. For those of you unfamiliar with Alien Skin, the company makes high-quality plug-ins for PC and Macintosh image editing programs. Th...

New software is now making it possible to remove Advanced Access Content System encryption from HD DVDs, enabling users to play discs on non-HDCP compliant graphics cards and displays. SlySoft, a DVD-authoring software firm based in Antigua, has released the first version of its AnyDVD HD, a program...

Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005, making the software giant's flagship database system compatible with its newest operating system and Office 2007. The release is the second major update the company has issued for its enterprise grade database. In addition to integrating SQL...

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