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Zetadocs PDF review
Reviews Zetadocs PDF is built on the premise that document templates for generating PDFs in a networked office can save time, ensure consistency of document production and deliver straightforward PDF creation tools to users.
[September 16, 2005, 11:15]
Big Blue backs beige boxes
News Another application in development, Instant Connect, will simplify the process of establishing an out-of-office network connection. Rapid Restore, meanwhile, preserves a mirror image of a user's application and key data on a partition below the...
[November 19, 2003, 15:30]
UN audit finds weakness in peacekeepers' IT
News The report, by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), criticised security in the Galileo Inventory Management System, an in-house automated application that manages $2bn (£1.4bn) worth of UN-owned equipment per year.
[January 14, 2009, 16:09]
Salesforce adds customisation option
News The company is also working on letting people access its software from all kinds of machines, including Internet-enabled mobile phones, BlackBerry pagers, handheld personal digital assistants and from within productivity applications such as...
[November 3, 2004, 8:43]
Microsoft woos developers with new programme
News And Linux and other open-source software are increasingly seen as alternatives to Windows and Office. The company is expanding the number of products that can be part of the programme to include most server and desktop programs, with Office and...
[July 12, 2004, 9:40]
SAP marches to its own beat
News Industry observers believe the worst has passed for companies that sell software for automating corporate office functions. While it seems that smaller application vendors have seen an uptick in business as well, we believe that the larger vendors...
[January 15, 2002, 16:25]
SurfControl tool blocks IM, P2P networks
News Instant messaging has become so popular that it's practically replaced the watercooler for office chitchat among co-workers. See the Software News Section for the latest headlines on everything from peer to peer clients to Office software and beyond.
[April 15, 2003, 11:20]
Predictable McNealy sings same song - slamming MS
News The other opportunity it has is to go out and buy little companies that wouldn't normally be successful, bundle them into their Windows or Office hairball and use their lock-in and monopoly leverage to make them successful and drive everyone else...
[June 18, 1999, 9:07]
Lotus founder preps open source Outlook alternative
News He is heading up a project to build a free, open-source equivalent of Microsoft Outlook, the set of email, calendar and contacts applications that comes with Microsoft's pervasive Office suite. OSAF is among several other groups that develop open...
[October 23, 2002, 8:02]
Nortel moves beyond convergence
News Nortel's BON strategy is also closely linked to the company's "unified communications" tie-in with Microsoft, which will see a range of products released to make it easier for Microsoft Office applications to link up with a Nortel-based...
[May 21, 2007, 12:34]
Adobe e-form will target Microsoft
News Microsoft is touting similar advantages for InfoPath, a part of the dramatically revamped Office productivity software line the company plans to introduce in a few months. See the Software News Section for the latest headlines on everything from...
[July 15, 2003, 9:23]
IBM looks for Workplace desktop success
News The Workplace software can work in conjunction with Microsoft's Office productivity suite. But IBM has made it clear it will try to sell the Workplace package as an alternative to Office in some scenarios.
[November 24, 2004, 7:50]
ROI, security and management: three necessities of the WLAN
News He offered an example: The convenience of a doctor doing the paperwork for a patient in the examining room instead of going back to an office for a wired connection may seem like a small thing. But it is this convenience -- in dozens of instances a...
[March 24, 2003, 13:46]
Microsoft Expression Studio: a first look review
Reviews You may have to install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (or 3.0 for Expression Design) and uninstall any beta versions of Microsoft Office 2007. Microsoft still offers simple online tools for web design, such as templates that accompany a free domain...
[April 4, 2007, 10:47]
AJAX: Ready to take on the old guard?
News There would have to be an amazingly compelling business case to convince me to go out and retrain 24,000 people on an all-new desktop environment, an all-new office environment and an all-new way of working.
[October 3, 2005, 16:55]
Microsoft launches Office Communications Server
News The company has identified unified communications as its most significant opportunity to increase revenue in its business software unit, a unit that has been fuelled largely by the success of Office. The most significant of the new products, Office...
[October 17, 2007, 9:19]
IBM ThinkPad X40 review
Reviews Productivity software costs extra, but you have your choice of three flavours of Microsoft Office: Basic, Small Business and Professional. To measure mobile application performance and battery life, we use BAPCo's MobileMark 2002.
[November 8, 2004, 11:23]
Netscape founder brings instant extranets to Europe
News Netscape founder Jim Clarke's new company Neoteris is opening its first European office this week as it seeks to cash in on what it sees as growing dissatisfaction with classic Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).
[October 29, 2002, 14:48]
IBM makes WebSphere connection
News See the Software News Section for the latest headlines on everything from peer to peer clients to Office software and beyond. The goal of Collaboration Center is to allow co-workers to communicate while they are working with a portal application...
[May 15, 2003, 10:50]
UK security industry gets professional body
News Over 220 individuals have applied to join, and 20 organisations have applied for corporate membership including the DTI, NISCC, and the Cabinet Office, as well as BP, HP, Barclays, Ernst & Young, BT, and Vodafone," Coleman said.
[February 28, 2006, 8:50]
