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Priorganizer: No Ordinary, Tepid Task Manager

There are programs for creating to-do lists. There are programs for managing projects. Rarely, however, do the twain meet as they do in Priorganizer. The program, by John Wood at Riaform, is priced at US$29.95 like a simple to-do list application -- which is certainly how it can be used -- but it co...

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Nyms App Leaves Spammers Out in the Cold

There are lots of software programs, as well as e-mail add-ons, to fight spam, but none are as clever or will give you the visceral satisfaction of Nyms. Nyms, which is sold on an annual subscription basis of US$19.95, is the cerebral spawn of the folks at Anonymizer, an Internet privacy and securit...

Spam Volumes Continue to Soar

Spam is reaching unprecedented levels according to a survey released earlier this month by Internet security vendor Postini. The firm reported a 59 percent increase in spam from September to November, when it processed nearly 70 billion e-mail connections. Unwanted e-mail has now reached a whopping ...

An emerging trend in the embedded market is the decoupling of software from hardware. This trend has allowed vendors to optimize revenues by pricing and selling software and the features it enables separately from the device on which the software runs. Software is often a critical component of embe...

AOL on Wednesday launched the latest version of its instant messaging service, AIM 6.0, which boasts offline messenging, an improved user interface, and enhanced support for blogging and other social networking activities. AIM 6.0's community-building orientation should be a plus as AOL shifts from ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released six security fixes to address a diversity of bugs in Windows and Office. The security flaws range from important to critical, the company said. Five of the vulnerabilities carry Microsoft's most severe rating: critical. All six allow a hacker to execute code from a remo...

Microsoft on Wednesday released Windows Vista to manufacturing after multiple delays, backlash from security vendors and European Commission wrangling. The release to manufacturing means that Microsoft has finished development work on the new operating system and is preparing for the final product r...

Intel this week unveiled SuiteTwo, a software bundle of Web 2.0 software services -- including collaboration, blogging, RSS, search and Wiki technology -- aimed at small- and medium-size businesses. Announced at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, SuiteTwo was produced by Intel's investment arm...

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PC Software Rivals GarageBand

GarageBand is an outstanding addition to Apple Computer's original iLife software suite. What the program does is give musicians and non-musicians alike a tool to create music on a computer. Even before the introduction of GarageBand, there were programs in the PC world that worked in ways similar t...

The telecommunications industry is changing rapidly -- as is the Internet -- and they're creating a mutual feedback loop. This feedback loop is virtuous if you're a consumer of such services, but it's terrifying if you're a supplier in these industries. Telecom is changing the Internet. The Internet...

Use of the Internet Explorer browser continues to fall as rivals such as Firefox gain converts, but the release of IE7 may help Microsoft wrest back some of its lost market share, according to a new report. The share of total browser use attributed to Internet Explorer fell in October to 81.3 percen...

Microsoft said Monday that it has finalized its new Office 2007 code and released it to manufacturing. The productivity software suite will be available to corporate customers on November 30, along with the Windows Vista operating system and new Exchange e-mail server. Consumer versions of the new W...

In the wake of heated criticism, Microsoft on Thursday eased restrictions on Windows Vista licensing. The controversial policy would have limited the number of times a user would be able to transfer the operating system software to a different PC. In September, Microsoft indicated that users would b...

A newly discovered but minor denial-of-service flaw in Windows XP could allow hackers to crash the operating system's firewall. However, the pool of affected computers appears relatively small. The security vulnerability, which was first reported on Monday, targets the ICS service, a Windows XP fea...

Microsoft has released Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP. Besides offering such incremental improvements as better sync and search capabilities, this latest download is the first with URGE -- MTV Networks' digital music center -- directly embedded into the application as a default setting. This...

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