September 2007

IBM Symphony Takes On Microsoft Office

September 26, 2007

IBM recently released a new Web 2.0 collaborative productivity suite. The platform, IBM Lotus Symphony, sets out to compete with Microsoft’s Office productivity suite. The package offers word processing, graphic presentations, and a spreadsheet package. Lotus Symphony’s native format is in ODF. Open Document Format is an international data format that will no longer lock [...]

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NBC Ramping Up Online Shows

September 23, 2007

NBC recently had a fallout with Apple’s ITunes. An agreement for NBC to provide videos was disrupted and NBC left town and Apple in the dust. NBC is now underway with the recently announced program availability from the NBC website. Currently the programs are on the home page in the middle. The applet has a [...]

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Retail Technical Support Services Questioned

September 20, 2007

Retail technology stores have offered in-store computer technical support for a number of years now. These services extend inside retail support out the customer’s premise. This is the situation for Best Buy, CompUSA, and Circuit City. Best Buy recently has experienced a couple of problems in the past couple of years. They were busted for [...]

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Mozilla FireFox Releases Security Patch

September 19, 2007

Mozilla released version 2.0.0.7 on September 18th addressing a security breach with Quick Time. You may find out further details at Mozilla. Select “help>check for updates” from the menu bar. This will initiate the update. FireFox will then request your approval to proceed with the update. The update only takes about two minutes. Upon completion, [...]

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iSick of iWords

September 12, 2007

The trend of this iStuff is really getting me sick to my stomach. Have you noticed everywhere you turn this obnoxious fad is going overboard. This term i-this and i-that is kaput. If there were only an International Words Standard Committee that could ban this fad to the dungeon!!! IThink any company that uses this [...]

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