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New PDF Converter Has Office-Caliber Muscle

Plano, Texas-based Docudesk, which makes software tools to convert proprietary file formats such as Adobe's PDF, recently introduced an enterprise version of its deskUNPDF document conversion line. The launch of deskUNPDF Professional provides users with new feature options and conversion formats to...

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What Are All Those Logs Trying to Tell You?

Gaining more insights early and often into what vast arrays of servers, routers and software stacks are actually doing has long been on top of the IT wish list. Traditional IT management approaches force the trade-off between depth and comprehensive reach, meaning you can't get the full, integrated ...

With data security threats becoming more ubiquitous, the market for products that simplify the process of managing that information appears to be growing. New York-based GridApp Systems is hoping to take a step in that direction with Clarity 4.5 database automation software that it is launching Mond...

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Opera’s Mobile Browser Hits the Right Notes

If you are reading this article, chances are you own a pocket PC or Palm-based smartphone or PDA. Chances are also great that you are in desperate need for a mobile Web solution. Since the dawn of the Internet, transferring and receiving information has been the ultimate goal. PDAs and smartphones h...

Microsoft launched Windows Server 2008 in Los Angeles on Wednesday. With its new features and enhanced tools, Windows Server 2008 has enjoyed a better reception than Windows Vista and has been deployed by a number of companies in beta, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNe...

What is virtualization anyway? The short answer is, virtualization is separating the physical layer from the logical layer -- the operating systems and applications. You can virtualize pretty much any aspect of IT. "There is no universal definition of virtualization as it means many things to many p...

Microsoft on Monday announced a new student program Monday dubbed "DreamSpark." The new program will give college and high school students around the world access to the software giant's development applications at no charge. DreamSpark is now available to millions of college students in Belgium, Ch...

A strong backlash from technical users of Windows Vista has forced Microsoft to revise its general release dates for Vista Service Pack 1. Vista SP1 will be released to Windows Update and to the download center in the first five languages in mid-March, said Mike Nash from Microsoft's Windows Product...

Microsoft announced the first stage in the launch of its first service pack for the Windows Vista operating system Monday. The service pack -- filled with performance, compatibility and reliability updates for versions in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese -- was released to manufacturing...

Typically I pick two or three things that I think were interesting, chat about them briefly and then make my product of the week selection. I'll still do my product of the week thing but, on doing the background work on Dell and Microsoft joining the (Product) Red campaign, I started to get really u...

Microsoft recently announced RFID enablement for its BizTalk Server software and numerous supporting RFID partner companies. These announcements and the use cases and solutions resulting from them reflect Aberdeen Group research, which shows that 62 percent of survey respondents now cite data integr...

One year after Microsoft's Vista operating system came to market, the company announced a change to its end-user licensing agreement, now allowing users to run the Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions in a virtual environment. The move is good news for consumers, who can run the OS on any mach...

Windows Vista users who have been chomping at the bit to join the beta test of its first service pack can now download the software thanks to an apparent reversal late last week by Microsoft. After initially offering the latest beta version, known as "Vista SP1 RC Refresh," to its 15,000 beta tester...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gave his 11th and final keynote address at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday, a speech laden with predictions that technology will grow ever more personal and interconnected in coming years. Gates, who first addressed CES as keynote speaker in...

Microsoft has found itself between a rock and a hard place with its latest Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3. The Redmond, Wash., software giant released SP3 in September, and in doing so blocked the ability of MS Office 2003 users to easily access older, less secure file formats. "After you inst...

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