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If you're tired of waiting for Microsoft's delayed Office 2007, consider this: Corel's WordPerfect Office X3 Standard tops Microsoft's Office 2003 Standard in every category.
If you're tired of waiting for Microsoft's delayed Office 2007, consider this: Corel's WordPerfect Office X3 Standard tops Microsoft's Office 2003 Standard in every category.
Macromedia has overhauled its Studio 8 Web suite, but many of the changes are not to its individual applications. Overall, the suite features tighter integration and improved links to databases and other Web resources; but those who work primarily in only one of the suite's big-name apps (Dreamweaver, Flash, or Fireworks), may find few reasons to pay $US399 to upgrade from Studio MX 2004.
Between spam and viruses, email is taking a battering as users’ favourite online application. Add to that privacy concerns and a few emerging alternatives such as messaging and voice telephony, and the killer app may be losing favour, according to some experts at the recent Email Technology Conference in San Francisco.
Flash is growing up. It seems like only yesterday that Macromedia's vector animation software was best known for the bandwidth-clogging intros website visitors had to sit through before the site's home page loaded. How 1999!
The next version of the Internet Protocol, which provides a 128-bit standard to transmit data, is getting a jump-start for adoption with its endorsement by the US Department of Defense. The result: A boost in the number of available Internet addresses, to eventually number as many as an address for every cell in every person on the planet.
If you think application service providers are just a passing phase, think again. The ASP Industry Consortium, in its first ASPire Awards Show at Comdex, made one thing clear: ASPs are here to stay.