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The OpenRaw Working Group has launched a Web site, www.openraw.org, to promote open documentation of Raw file formats. Juergen Specht, a Japan-based photographer who is spearheading the OpenRaw group, used the analogy of baking a cake to describe what the public documentation of the format would mean in the future. “The file formats are just […]

In order to improve customer satisfaction, efficiency and back-office and supplier collaborations, a Six Sigma program has been created for retailers. The approach developed by AMR Research is designed to increase profits by reducing out of stock instances and improving employee productivity. The program addresses three components: customer intimacy, which involves collecting customer data to […]

SEATTLE—Just because Microsoft has cornered in excess of 90 percent of the desktop operating system market doesnt mean the Redmond software vendor has no plans for expansion. In fact, Microsofts Windows client marketing team has a slew of ideas for how Microsoft and its partners can earn billions of additional dollars from Windows by making […]

SEATTLE—Microsoft took the wraps off a new document-workflow technology that it is readying as part of Longhorn during the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here on Monday. Officially unveiled as part of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates kick-off keynote, the new Microsoft document workflow format, code-named “Metro,” sounds from initial explanations like a page-description language meant […]

SEATTLE—While this years Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here will be heavily focused on 64-bit processing, it also will serve as a showcase for new kinds of smaller, portable laptop and Tablet PC devices. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who is slated to deliver the Monday morning kickoff keynote address for the show—which is expected to be […]

Over the past weeks, I have heard many questions about the impending merger of Adobe and Macromedia, and the most frequent one is, “What does this mean for the publishing market?” The quick answer to this is “probably not very much.” The merger makes obvious sense from a corporate consolidation standpoint, no doubt about that, […]

Rome wasnt built in a day, and neither apparently will be 64-bit computing. But we finally have the second pillar needed to hold up the 64-bit infrastructure: a mainstream operating system. Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (XP64) uses the full power of modern 64-bit processors (the first pillar) and makes that power available to […]

After having suspended all Internet coupons due to fraud concerns, grocery chain Publix is now allowing consumers to use computer-generated “cents off” coupons, but won’t allow “free product” coupons. The free product coupons will continue to be banned due to a nationwide scam that first came to light in 2003. Shoppers were using coupons with […]

While Microsoft Corp.s Windows team is laser-focused on Longhorn, many Windows users are more concerned with older versions of Windows, for which the support-clock is ticking away. Extended support from Microsoft for Windows NT 4.0 ended on December 30, 2004, and the Redmond, Wash., software maker is set to phase out mainstream support for its […]

Microsoft Corp. officials told beta testers on Thursday that the second beta release of its Windows Server 2003 R2 update is now available for download. Microsoft made the R2 Beta 2 bits available on its Betaplace Web site. R2 is a fairly minor version of Windows Server, built on the recently released Windows Server 2003 […]

“Limits are what we fear.” … R. Buckminster Fuller The organizations that enforce the strictest corporate security are often the ones that are the least secure. With the exception of organizations whose very mission is security (say, the Coast Guard, intelligence agencies, banks or body shops that rent uniformed personnel as their mission), the more […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Hold off on converting files within a PDF document until the document is ready to print. This is one of the keys for PDF preparation, according to a prominent Adobe Systems Inc. engineer. Dov Isaacs, principal scientist in Adobes Print Workflow Products Group, outlined his principles in a workshop at the Adobe Acrobat PDF […]