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    Microsoft appears to be joining Apple and Google in the mobile "apps store" market.

  • Secondhand Microsoft software can be resold

    A UK company that specialises in secondhand software claims to have found a loophole in Microsoft software licensing that has enabled it to continue trading five months after the software giant attempted to stamp out the practice.

  • Mashups conquer charts at Lotusphere

    At its annual Lotusphere conference, IBM showed off an early version of Lotus Mashups, a tool designed to let businesspeople, rather than professional programmers, quickly assemble Web applications.

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    Shai Agassi has a technical mind, as one would expect of the president of product and technology for the world's largest enterprise software applications vendor, SAP.

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    In this product review, we look at tools that can monitor network performance.

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    If you miss your Linux apps when forced onto a Windows machine, all is not lost. Cygwin can save you, and is just a free download away.

  • Oracle: Deal, no deal or ....

    The latest Oracle ruling is just another indication that consolidation, mergers and acquisitions are part and parcel of the business landscape. The underlying issue for customers is this: who controls the destiny of their software?

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    For new Mac users, figuring out how to install and remove programs can be vexing. Don't worry; it's way easier than you may have thought!

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    Highlights of the new features and enhancements in Adobe's Create Suite 3 core applications.

  • Charney: App vendors are the weakest security link

    Microsoft now builds security into products such as Vista but attackers have shifted their focus to applications so software vendors are the weakest link, says the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group.

  • CNET.com: Apple tunes up Keynote features

    At Macworld 2009 in San Francisco, Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, demonstrates new features of the company's Keynote software, which enables users to create dynamic presentations. A Keynote-coordinating iPhone application, for example lets users advance slides by using the device as a remote control, clicking them back and forth wirelessly.

  • iPhone SDK makes public debut

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    If you are looking for the right software to ease your backup pain, look no further.

  • Networking for smarts

    In this product review, we look at tools that can monitor network performance.

  • Symantec gets ready to take on Microsoft

    At RSA Conference 2005 in San Francisco, Symantec CEO John Thompson knocks Microsoft's security efforts and says the upcoming merger with Veritas Software will provide businesses with an optimal product for corporate compliance.

  • Microsoft casts a spyware net

    At the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Zachary Gutt, a product manager in the business security unit, demonstrate SpyNet, an anti-spyware database created by collecting real-time alerts from computer users.

  • Case study: Software selection mistakes

    In this case study, we look at how a software choice went awry, leading to an expensive headache instead of a much-wanted solution.

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