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Electronic information has its advantages over paper, but it has its share of snags, too. One of them is finding saved items. In the analog world, some folks keep tabs on their important data bits by scribbling them on post-it notes and sticking them to any available surface in sight, creating a fes...
The software universe is teeming with programs for creating slideshows from digital images. Many of these applications fulfill their appointed task very well. But one snag for me when creating slideshows has been their file size. Although some programs claim they'll create slideshows suitable for po...
In an apparent move to cater to governments, Microsoft today said it is taking steps to offer the file format technology behind Word and Excel to customers and the industry as an international standard. A large group of co-sponsors, including Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, the British Library, Essilor...
In a move that underscores the growing importance of flash memory chips as consumer electronics devices continue to shrink in size, Intel and Micron Technology announced a joint venture that will create flash chips for the likes of Apple and others. The two chip makers will contribute up to US$5.2 b...
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today shared his vision of how the software industry can contribute to accelerating scientific research and engineering innovation during his keynote speech at Supercomputing 2005. Of course, part of his vision includes the software giant's Windows Compute Cluster Serve...
Microsoft is getting down to business with an enterprise version of its Windows Desktop search, which provides corporate intranet searches through other Microsoft software including Office, SharePoint Portal Server and third-party enterprise applications. The free software, available for download wi...
Amid much public debate and reports that it could leave consumers wide open for malicious attacks, Sony has decided to halt the insertion of anti-piracy software into its CDs. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) system limits the number of times a CD can be copied. The software installs itself on Wi...
Podcasting changed the face of audio on the Web and now it's altering the face of hosting, too. The technology that moved blogging from eye to ear has hosting services revising their pricing to attract the growing ranks of podcasters to their servers and has increased pressure on niche players to re...
Microsoft this week renamed its antispyware software from Windows AntiSpyware to Windows Defender, which may be more appropriate for a combined spyware/virus defense solution, industry observers said. The company -- despite not setting a firm date for the next build and release of the security softw...
Last week Microsoft announced its new online extensions to Windows and Office called, coincidently, Windows Live and Office Live. These say a great deal about both Microsoft's direction and the future of desktop software in general. In addition, HP announced an intent to eliminate the concept of the...
Trend Micro is picking up on one of the latest security trends with its new home office solution -- spyware protection. PC-cillin Internet Security 2006 is designed to combat unpredictable malicious threats like phishing, spyware, spam, hackers, viruses, and other threats. The company said its solut...
When crises like the recent earthquake in Asia, the London terror bombings and devastating hurricanes such as Katrina strike, more people than ever turn to the Web for news and real-time updates on these history-making events. This is not a new phenomenon, but it continues to be a growing one. Rewi...
Microsoft's expected announcement today that it was broadening its presence in the on-demand software market isn't causing leading players in the arena to quake in their code. "I truly don't think Microsoft has anything to sell in that space," maintained Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite in San Mateo, Ca...
Although Web logs, or blogs, have attracted a lot of ink and electrons, the keys to their creation and upkeep remain a mystery to many Net surfers. That's not to say that there aren't minds at work in the electronic plasma ruminating on ways to encourage even the meekest Websters to try their hand a...
The past two years have seen several high-profile corporate scandals that illustrate the dramatic consequences of e-mail misuse -- and those are just the ones that have made headlines. In fact, one in five employers has had an e-mail subpoenaed by courts and regulators, and another 13 percent have b...
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