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Googles Apps Suite Gains Presentation Component Your friendly neighborhood Google Docs dropdown menu now sports a new application option. Googles Apps Suite Gains Presentation Component – A Clean Slate The look of a blank presentation in Google Docs is more or less the same as in Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org. Googles Apps Suite Gains Presentation […]

The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today By Chris Preimesberger The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today – 1. Effectively utilizing more than 30 percent of available capacity Sun Microsystems did some research among its customers and found that clearly 70 percent of storage capacity is wasted. This is a generally agreed-upon statistic […]

SanDisk Ups USB Memory Stick Ante with Cruzer Contour Users running Windows can set a password for the SanDisk Cruzer Contour. SanDisk Ups USB Memory Stick Ante with Cruzer Contour – Who Knew Thered Be Settings? Yes, its a USB memory drive with settings. There arent a lot of settings–mostly they relate to what is […]

Whats in a Name? Everything for Salesforce and Force.com Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff outlines Force.com in his Dreamforce keynote address on Sept. 17. Whats in a Name? Everything for Salesforce and Force.com – Keynote Marc Benioffs keynote backdrop references Force.com by name and intention: the on-demand platform of choice for customers and partners. Whats in […]

ShadowProtect Provides Ghost-Like Images for Windows StorageCrafts new ShadowProtect 3.0 software is available for both personal computers and servers. The desktop version, shown here, is designed to make backup images of the computers hard disk automatically, and, in between, make incremental updates. He ShadowProtect Provides Ghost-Like Images for Windows – The server version of ShadowProtect […]

Microsofts Loss Helps Google. Or Does It? A European courts decision to uphold complaints about Microsofts anti-competitive behavior means customers could end up with more choice in a number of areas, such as servers and security, and opens the door for competitors such as Google. But Google ma Microsofts Loss Helps Google. Or Does It? […]

Microsoft EU Antitrust: A Case History The European Unions challenge to Microsofts desktop hegemony has been history-making from the start nine years ago. Heres a look at the highlights from Microsoft Watchs Joe Wilcox. Microsoft EU Antitrust: A Case History – September 1998 Sun files complaint about server interoperability. Microsoft EU Antitrust: A Case History […]

Roombas Robot Roots The Roomba 560 shown doing what it does best — cleaning hard surfaces and along edges. While the little robot can do a good job with other surfaces, including carpet, it really excels on wood floors. Roombas Robot Roots – The Roombas Controls The control panel of the Roomba 560 shows some […]

Q: What exactly is password hardening, and how does it mimic the benefits of multifactor authentication?A: The basic idea of password hardening is that you do something extra to make the password harder to guess or spoof without actually distributing a piece of hardware or software to the consumer. That extra thing you do is […]

Google Apps: Microsoft FUDs up On Sept. 10, Microsoft PR dispatched a top 10 list of things enterprises should ask about Google Apps. Microsoft released the list after Capgemini said it would make Google Apps Premier Edition available on perhaps one million desktops. Here are Mi Google Apps: Microsoft FUDs up – Enterprise ready? Microsofts […]

Ten Search Engines Youve Never Heard of (And Cant Live Without) Internet search has been likened to a giant horseshoe magnet finding iron needles in giant haystacks of data. But search results are often too broad, and that has created the need for more personalized search. Social bookmarking became the first Web 2.0 r Ten […]