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Tools Enable Online Searching of PDFs

Publishers of online magazines and newspapers have been finding that to replicate print-quality formatting and design, its tough to beat PDFs. After all, the format...

IBM Previews Enterprise Blogging Tools

IBM is throwing more weight behind Weblogging as an enterprise collaboration application with two upcoming versions of new blogging tools, provided as part of...

SMBs Basking in IT Industry Attention

IT companies frequently talk as if the small and midsize business market they are all competing to serve is some newly discovered continent that...

Strive for Authentication, But Dont Count on It

Tuesdays E-Mail Authentication Summit in Times Square was a reminder that work continues in this important effort. The basic idea of it was to...

Internet Tax Debate Gets Stickier

Think its easy writing columns on tax policy?Think again.Which is what I should have done before I wrote last weeks column on Internet sales...

Patch Management: Stop Killing the Database to Save It

With all the recent public disclosures of data-privacy breaches, the spotlight is shining brightly on database security. Databases are clearly under direct attack from...

Making Money from Free Software

The last time around, I talked about how you could go broke from working on free software. Some people thought I was preaching doom...

OSDL Expands to Europe, But Not to Microsoft

Stuart Cohen, head of the OSDL, a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux which employs Linus Torvalds and other leading Linux...

Apple Tops Its Quarterly Earnings Record

Apple Computer on Wednesday reported the financial results of its third fiscal quarter, characterizing the numbers as "the highest revenue and earnings in the...

Its Time Microsoft Patched Its Patch System

You almost have to pity Microsoft sometimes. While it sells the most popular computer OS, it is also one of the worst designed ones....