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IT Departments on Data Security: A Research Concepts Survey: A survey of 185 IT professionals finds that, although computer and data security are high priorities, they are surprisingly unprepared to prevent data breaches and computer theft. One out of four organizations surveyed had a data breach in the past year. Preventative measures are found to be consistently undermined, with...; Tags: Absolute Software, Information Technology, Survey, Measure, Data Security, Computer, Marketing Research, Productivity, Security, Marketing; White papers 2008-04-17
Endpoint Security for Protecting Data on Mobile Computers: The increased use of laptop computers and mobile devices has fueled an unprecedented number of data breaches. For IT departments, even encryption technology and strong corporate policy cannot prevent data breaches resulting from careless use of laptops by end users. Endpoint security lets you remotely delete...; Tags: Security, Mobile Computer, Absolute Software, Mobile, Computer, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; White papers 2008-03-06
Hospital Health System Manages Growing Fleet of Laptops: As a leading healthcare provider with a state-of-the-art electronic health record system, Allina Hospitals & Clinics required a way to protect its rapidly growing laptop population from computer theft and potential data breach. Find out how the hospital system deployed Computrace asset tracking to monitor 2,700 laptops...; Tags: Asset, Hospital, Absolute Software, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Laptop Computer, E-health, Asset Management, Notebooks, Healthcare, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; Case studies 2008-03-01
Arizona's Fastest-Growing School District Moves to Offer Laptops in the Classroom: Dysart USD is the fastest growing school district in Arizona. This case study examines how the district protects their investment in technology by effectively managing thousands of HP laptops. Learn how Dysart gets up-to-the-minute status of every computer's location, virus protection, software and hardware configuration, and how...; Tags: District, Absolute Software, Laptop Computer, Arizona, Dysart USD, Notebooks, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Security; Case studies 2008-03-01
Grant Thornton Achieves 99.7% Accuracy Tracking Mobile IT Assets: Grant Thornton LLP is one of America's largest accounting firms. This case study explains how the company simplified its IT asset tracking process to minimize loss rates during business expansion. Learn how Grant Thornton used Computrace to standardize its IT asset management across a nation-wide network of...; Tags: Absolute Software, Mobile, Information Technology, Grant Thornton LLP, Roi/Tco, Strategic Planning, Regulatory Compliance, Strategy, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; Case studies 2008-03-01

A Layered Approach to Laptop Security for Education: As school districts invest in laptop computers as every-day learning tools, they face greater risk of theft, unauthorized software installation and hardware tampering. These incidents may also have serious legal consequences, potentially violating government regulations. This whitepaper outlines a multi-layered strategy for protecting laptops that combines traditional...; Tags: Education, Absolute Software, Layered Technologies Inc., Laptop Computer, Computer, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; White papers 2008-03-01
A Layered Approach to Laptop Security for Healthcare: The shift towards electronic health records makes laptop management and data breach prevention a growing challenge. The loss of one computer puts patient privacy at risk, and exposes organizations to damaging publicity and HIPAA compliance issues. This whitepaper discusses IT asset tracking solutions to meet the challenges...; Tags: Absolute Software, Health Care, Layered Technologies Inc., Laptop Computer, Computer, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; White papers 2008-03-01
Absolute Sound Recorder (exe): Absolute Sound Recorder lets you record sound from a microphone, line-in audio, streaming audio from the Internet, or music played by Winamp, Windows Media Player, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Flash, and games, without losing any quality. It supports MP3, WMA, and WAV output formats. It also features support for a built-in player...; Tags: Recorder, Absolute Software, Digital Music, Digital Media, Web Technology, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2007-12-27
Absolute Video Converter (exe): Absolute Video Converter is video converter software. It can batch convert video files among VCD (PAL, NTSC), SVCD (PAL, NTSC), DVD (PAL, NTSC), AVI, DivX, MPEG4, standard MPEG, and WMV or ASF. You can setup output video width, height, and frame rate. You can also extract audio tracks from video...; Tags: Absolute Software, Video, Absolute Video Converter, Corporate Communications, Marketing; Software downloads 2007-12-27
Absolute MP3 Splitter Converter (exe): Absolute MP3 Splitter is an audio split, merge, and convert software, which can split your large audio file into small pieces and merge audio files in one large file. It can also convert between audio formats without losing quality, in spite of the source format and target format. It supports...; Tags: Audio, Absolute Software, MP3, Absolute MP3 Splitter; Software downloads 2007-12-27
Absolute DVD Copy (6): Absolute DVD Copy is a powerful tool to copy your DVD collection to DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW. You are not only able to copy your DVD collection to blank DVD discs, but also copy DVDs to hard disk folders for editing or burning later. You can copy D9 disc to D9...; Tags: Absolute Software, Disc, Absolute DVD Copy, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Software downloads 2007-11-13
Amazon DVD Shrinker SE (exe): Amazon DVD Shrinker is an easy-to-use DVD copying software to get perfect duplicates of your favorite movies on DVD or Hard Drive with just a few clicks. The shrinking engine can fit any DVD video (up to 9.4GB) on to your DVD disc (4.7GB/Single Layer or 8.5GB/Dual Layer) with no...; Tags: Absolute Software, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon DVD Shrinker, Copy Speed, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Software downloads 2006-11-27
Absolute Video to Audio Converter (exe): Absolute Video to Audio Converter is a professional tool to extract audio from video files. It can batch extract audio from video files such as AVI, MPEG, WMV/ASF files to MP3, WMA, OGG, and WAV files. You can setup output audio bitrate, frequency, and channels. Support VBR of MP3 and...; Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Absolute Software, OGG, audio, MP3, video, WAV, MPEG, AVI, WMA; Software downloads 2006-11-23
Absolute Video Splitter Joiner (exe): Absolute Video Splitter Joiner is an easy to use tool to split, join, or convert video files. It can split or cut a movie file to small clips in various formats by setting the start and end time of each clip, join multiple video files (including BMP, JPG) into one...; Tags: Absolute Software, video, movie, codec, video player, MPEG; Software downloads 2006-10-19
CRM Solution Helps Computer Security Firm Boost System Performance, Marketing Efforts: Absolute Software, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, provides computer security and tracking software, such as ComputraceComplete, which deters laptop theft and helps recover stolen computers. Absolute's sales efforts were hampered by a slow, inefficient CRM system that didn't allow for easy information sharing across the organization. As a result, the...; Tags: Computer Security, Performance, Absolute Software, CRM Solution, Microsoft Corp., Computer, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Marketing Research, Security, Software, Marketing, Sales; Case studies

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Hosted software development: an emerging market [interview and podcast]: Note: Click the player above to hear my podcast interview on hosted development with Jeffrey Walker and Jeff Leyser from Atlassian Software. Hosted software as a service (SaaS) development solutions have become an important option for mainstream programmers. These products range from straightforward offsite storage, such as...; Tags: Software, Podcast, Environment, Emerging Market, Workflow, Tool, Development Environment, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Informatica is on the block say senior sources: I have heard from two senior sources in the software industry that Informatica [INFA] is on the block and it has approached Oracle [ORCL]. I don't know what the possible acquisition price would be or any further details. Informatica's share price closed at $16.45 on Friday May 9. It's...; Tags: Informatica, Oracle Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-11
All USB ports aren't created equal: All USB ports aren't created equalPretty much convincedGood grief. What has happened to journalism today? Never mind. I already know.Point is, you don't need to be pretty much convinced. There's this radical concept that's been floating around for about 400 years called the scientific method. It's key element is experiment....; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), USB port, Microsoft Windows Vista, hardware; Discussion threads 2008-05-10
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week: Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including Apple's 24-inch iMac, a Beltronics radar detector, and the "most sophisticated NAS device" CNET has tested.Here''s our weekly roundup of the new products CNET reviewers liked best. 1. 2008 BMW 135i Coupe Editors'' rating: 8.9...; Tags: built-In, Battery, Photograph, Bottom Line, Navigation System, CNET', Price, Keyboards, Engineering, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-10
Freeze Frame 2.0 becomes Bokeh 1.0: When you need all the processing power your Mac can provide, it's good to eliminate distractions. That's where Elgebar Studios's Freeze Frame and now Bokeh, its Leopard-only successor, comes to the rescue. The $17 Bokeh software lets users target a single application that's running processor-intensive tasks and...; Tags: Distraction, Apple Macintosh, Image, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-05-09