Monday, July 13, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 13/07/2009



NEO Pro Shows Outlook You're the Boss
A lot of add-ons promise to help you restore order to your mess of an Outlook inbox, but most of the apps I've tried just resulted in more work for me. Not NEO Pro, though: This handy Outlook add-on is the first I've used that I actually plan to keep using. This $50 tool organizes your Outlook e-mail in useful, intuitive ways and provides lightning-fast searches.
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Nokia's Surge debuts with Video Share, $80 price tag
AT&T and Nokia today announced that the Nokia Surge smartphone will go on sale July 19 for $80 after rebate.
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Survey: 6 in 10 companies to skip Windows 7
Six in 10 companies plan to skip Microsoft's Windows 7, many because they've cut budgets and others because of compatibility worries, according to a survey released today.
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Windows 7 RTM: The revenge of Windows Vista

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Study finds big rise in job cuts planned at IT shops
Forty-six percent of North American IT shops are planning to cut positions this year, up from 24 percent last year, with one-quarter planning to slash staff by 10 percent or more, according to a newly released study by Computer Economics.
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Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Deluxe Edition
My first experiences with typing tutors were frustrating, and as a six-year-old, they were my nemesis. Sessions with the first program I tried often ended in me bashing my rather diminutive fists against the keyboard and screaming at the top of my lungs in frustration. Looking back on it, I realize I wasn't the ideal age for learning how to type. But given a few years (and a few more typing programs), I became a competent typist. Judging from the latest version of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing from Software MacKiev, typing tutors have come a long way, and that's a good thing.
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A Plan to Secure the Federal Cyberspace, Part 3
About this series: In a paper he wrote and published before President Obama's announcement regarding the creation of a national cybersecurity coordinator, Ariel Silverstone, CISSP, put forward his thoughts about the necessity of having a chief security officer for the United States. In this Final installment, he discusses timelines and priorities as he sees them. Silverstone then addresses the need for input and involvement from academia and the private sector.
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Office 2010 looks solid and smooth

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Office 2010: Most Innovations are Online
It has taken Microsoft a long time to bring its flagship Office suite to the Web and now it finally has with Office 2010. The software suite comes packed with meaningful improvements such as new cut-and-paste features for Word and new ways to broadcast your PowerPoint presentations online. But the most striking addition to Office 2010 is the introduction of Office Web Apps. These are light-weight versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote that are all accessible via desktop, mobile devices, and Web browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
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Microsoft girds Office 2010 with free Web versions
Preferring to risk cannibalizing its own sales rather than let competitors such as Google Inc. eat away at them, Microsoft Corp. will give consumers and corporate users free access to the coming Web version of Microsoft Office.
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