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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Network World on Applications

Network World on Applications Wednesday, July 23, 2008 The latest application news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com.
Acrobat 9 Pro Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Adobe's Acrobat 8 Professional, saw major leaps forward in nearly every function and feature of the august PDF creator. Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro (not Professional, just Pro) is a smaller update with a narrower focus. There are no major improvements for creating and distributing basic or even signed or certified PDF documents, nor will design and print industry workers discover anything added or significantly improved for them. Minor to moderate improvements and enhancements abound for all, but Acrobat 9 is aimed primarily at streamlining document collaboration and review, with the goal of easing forms creation and distribution running a close second. Business workgroups producing PDF files for review or data collection will definitely want to consider Acrobat 9.
5 ways the iPhone 3G still lags in enterprise Tuesday, July 22, 2008 The iPhone 3G may have a lock on the Sexiest Gadget Alive title for 2008, but in the frumpy and boring world of things that matter to enterprise IT managers, it's no pinup.
Scribbles 1.2.1 Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Sometimes you just need to doodle, to be creative and make a little art without the complications of Illustrator or the mess of Crayolas. Atebites' Scribbles 1.2.1 allows both kids and adults to do just that, with a fresh approach to drawing that combines a simple interface with clever design.
Apple's MobileMe could be a headache for IT managers Monday, July 21, 2008 When Apple initially rolled out its MobileMe service for synchronizing e-mail, contacts and calendars among computing devices, its tagline-"Exchange for the rest of us"-suggested that businesses might find some use for the technology.
Purely online university Monday, July 21, 2008 He's only three months into the job, but a passion for education is what led Nick Hutton to his role as CEO of U21 Global, an educational institution focusing on graduate studies that operates on a 100 percent online environment.
Founded in knowledge Monday, July 21, 2008 About 45 percent of respondents to the State of the Asian CIO 2007 survey have no individuals or teams specifically devoted to vetting emerging technologies that might contribute to a business innovation. And although around 59 percent labor under the belief that IT should proactively envision business possibilities and initiate them with technology, and 91 percent think that the modest to significant part of their role is about bringing ideas for IT-enabled business innovation to the board room--only 16.77 percent actually lead innovation initiatives across their enterprises.
Asia's seaport tech Monday, July 21, 2008 In the last few decades, the ports of Hong Kong and Singapore have dominated the top two slots in the global league table of busiest container ports. Except for three years (1990, 1991 and 1998, when Singapore briefly held first place), Hong Kong has been the busiest container port between 1987 and 2004.
Report: Beware of 'chaos' SharePoint can create Monday, July 21, 2008 A report from Forrester is warning customers to consider carefully how they plan to use Microsoft's Office SharePoint Server product, which they say can wreak havoc in an IT organization when used as a custom application development platform.
IPNetSentryX 1.6.5 Monday, July 21, 2008 OS X includes a basic firewall that helps to protect your Mac from a variety of outside intruders, such as hackers trying to run spam-spewing robots. In Leopard, though, the firewall-which is disabled by default-offers very little in the way of customization. At most you can specify programs and services (such as file sharing and screen sharing) to which outside connections are explicitly permitted or blocked. IPNetSentryX stands at the opposite end of the firewall software spectrum. The program from Sustainable Softworks has every bell and whistle that even the geekiest Mac user could hope for-and a complex user interface to match.
Plopp 1.2.5 Monday, July 21, 2008 With more and more Saturday morning cartoons and animated films using 3-D art, don't be surprised if Junior won't settle for 2-D drawing tools. Impara's Plopp is a drawing tool for kids that not only makes 3-D easy, but it makes it fun, too.