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Luxury Travel Firm Chooses Business-Class File Standard

Elegant Resorts is a luxury travel Company specialising in tailor-made holidays for discerning travellers. Most bookings are taken over the phone, but customers can also use the Web site to create a provisional itinerary for a holiday. Sales agents use this information to create documents including travel itineraries and invoices,...

Tags: Itinerary, Microsoft Corp., Elegant Resorts, Sales Strategy, Real Estate, E-mail, Web Site Development, Process Improvement, Sales, Business Operations, Online Communications, Internet, Quality

Case studies 2008-01-01

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Fans to build own radio as Slacker takes on iPod

Is it an iPod? Is it an old-fashioned transistor radio? These are the questions the Slacker portable digital music player will have to answer when it hits U.S. stores this month. NEW YORK--Is it an iPod? Is it an old-fashioned transistor radio? These are the questions the Slacker portable...

Tags: Apple iPod, Station, Slacker G2, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Reuters, Slacker, music, iPod, radio

News items 2008-10-02

Samsung Omnia

Photo gallery:Samsung OmniaAlong with the RIM BlackBerry Bold and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, the Samsung Omnia is one of the most requested and sought after smartphones of 2008. Why all the buzz? It's not so much the Omnia's touch screen that's drawing attention (after all, we've seen it in the...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung OMNIA, OMNIA, touch screen

Product reviews 2008-09-30

Dell All-in-One Wireless Printer V305w - multifunction ( color )

The Dell V305W is an inexpensive all-in-one AIO printer that also connects wirelessly to your home network. The $129 multifunctional solution does triple duty as a 1,200x2,400 dpi scanner and full range copier. Dell manages to keep the cost of the V305W low by omitting an autodocument feeder and fax...

Tags: Printers, Dell V305W, printer, Dell Computer Corp., cartridge

Product reviews 2008-09-30

Softgroup .Net Error Object (zip)

It is essential that all errors are correctly handled by your application. However, there is more to effective error handling than just placing an error trap in every procedure and displaying a simple message box whenever an error occurs. Softgroup .Net Error Object provides easy error processing and implementation with:...

Tags: Error, Softgroup, Softgroup .Net Error Object, .Net, C#, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-29

Contactizer Pro (dmg)

Welcome to Contactizer Pro, the amazing all-in-one solution for managing, sharing and organizing your personal and business information. Contactizer Pro makes your contact management experience more efficient, productive and inventive. Following the prodigious success of its predecessor, OD4Contact, many users worldwide continue to choose Contactizer Pro for their calendar, organizational...

Tags: Objective Decision, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-29

DiskZoom (zip)

DiskZoom is an elegant disk management utility that gives a graphical overview of the files and folders on your disk drives. DiskZoom is most useful when your drive is full, or nearly full, and you need help to identify the large folders and big files that are candidates for deletion....

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Tellapallet, DiskZoom

Software downloads 2008-09-24

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended

After spending a few weeks working with a beta version, I've concluded that there's just enough that's better in the CS4 updates to Photoshop and Photoshop Extended--most notably, usability improvements for core features--that many people will find themselves sighing, biting the bullet, and upgrading. That bullet biting stems from Adobe's...

Tags: panels architecture, Adobe PhotoShop, Photoshop Extended, Adobe Systems Inc.

Product reviews 2008-09-23

Adobe Photoshop CS4

After spending a few weeks working with a beta version, I've concluded that there's just enough that's better in the CS4 updates to Photoshop and Photoshop Extended--most notably, usability improvements for core features--that many people will find themselves sighing, biting the bullet, and upgrading. That bullet biting stems from Adobe's...

Tags: panels architecture, Adobe PhotoShop, Photoshop Extended, Adobe Systems Inc.

Product reviews 2008-09-23

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

Photo gallery:Adobe Dreamweaver CS4Some veteran users to the Adobe Creative Suite may find that version 4 offers few extraordinary updates to justify the high cost. However, designers and editors who lean on Dreamweaver for complex dynamic Web sites will find plenty of tweaks for editing code more easily within its...

Tags: Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Cs3, Creative Suite 4, Adobe Systems Inc.

Product reviews 2008-09-23

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

Photo gallery:Adobe Flash CS4 ProfessionalWith Creative Suite 4, Adobe aims to make Flash easier for newbies to learn and less of a hassle for veteran users to use. Flash 4 offers a fundamentally different approach to animation with object-based tweening. In addition, the workspace is more elegant and options expand...

Tags: Flash 4, Adobe Systems Inc., animation, Flash CS3

Product reviews 2008-09-23

A moment of lucidity

A moment of lucidityFor some clarificationDennisInteresting points, but I'm here to dispel some of your suggestions. In this following post, I've clearly articulated how I do --and do not-- use social media for research activities.http://tinyurl.com/5wy68zIt would be great if you could first read this post before suggesting I only...

Tags: lucidity, social media, Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

Johannes Vermeer Screensaver - 60 Paintings (exe)

Johannes Vermeer Screensaver - 60 images of the original paintings spanning his career. A Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. His entire life was spent in the town of Delft and was a moderately successful provincial painter. Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred years,...

Tags: Image, Professional Development, Microsoft Office, Career, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-12

The enterprise startup conundrum

Larry Dignan's article about enterprise startups is an excellent primer for those wanting to pitch Zack and I but there are other issues I'd like to surface. Especially that which talks to the Silicon Valley echo chamber. This week, Yammer took top honors at TC50. I have...

Tags: Silicon Valley, SAP AG, Twitter, ESME, Enterprise Developer, Operational Planning, Team Management, Roi/Tco, Business Operations, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Google on search: The real work is just starting

Google's Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, reckons that today's search is a 90 percent solution. But the remaining 10 percent of the search equation will require more than 90 percent of the work ahead if search is to be perfected. Those comments...

Tags: Google Inc., Marissa Mayer, Search, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-10

Sandvox (dmg)

Sandvox is the pioneering Web site creation tool for Mac OS X. Sandvox makes Web site creation elegant, intuitive, and fun. It's the Macintosh way--the way it should be. Drag and drop content, watch your site take shape as you create it, and publish. Sandvox makes it easy to keep...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Karelia, Sandvox, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2008-09-09

Fastest-growing Web categories in US in July, 2008

  Jun-08 Jul-08 % Change Total Internet : Total Audience 189,873 189,134 0 Travel - Ground/Cruise 11,484 12,663 10 Retail - Consumer Goods 20,795 22,455 8 Retail - Mall 26,123 28,068 7 Retail - Movies 25,251 26,985 7 ...

Tags: Travel, Professional Development, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Career, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Microsoft keeps banging the virtualization drum

Microsoft keeps banging the virtualization drumWar is being fought on all fronts...I just finished our yearly offsite with my rep. We spent 2 weeks in Aspen going over Microsoft's roadmap and how many millions I will spend this year on it. Microsoft's strategy for this year is to finally crush...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, hardware, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

The power of standard protocols

I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...

Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Fujitsu LifeBook A6120 (2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8400)

The Fujitsu LifeBook A6210's $1,349 price tag may seem a bit high for a midsize laptop, especially considering that many similarly sized systems cost less than $1,000. But the Fujitsu has a number of features that help justify the higher price: namely, a built-in Blu-ray drive, ATI Mobility Radeon HD...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu LifeBook, Intel Core 2 Duo, laptop computer, Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2008-08-29