| Microsoft dithers on downloads | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:13:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | JUST a week before Microsoft cranks up what it calls its largest software launch in a decade, the company apparently can't say whether it will offer Australian users the chance to buy the latest versions of Windows and Office by download. Microsoft last week announced it would sell English-language versions of its new Windows Vista operating system from its Windows Marketplace web shopfront, which sells Windows-compatible software from both Microsoft and third-party suppliers. Downloadable upgrade versions would also be available via a new "Anytime Upgrade" service in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. Windows' long-term partner, Microsoft Office, would also be available via download, the company said. But asked whether the download options would be available in Australia, Microsoft was unable to provide an answer.... | |
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| | | Kingston Partners with eMusic on Free Downloads | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 1:16:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kingston Technology is partnering with eMusic to deliver 50 free audio downloads to visitors of the memory specialists Mobile Phone Village. The catch: You must sign up for a 14-day eMusic trial. With close to 2 million songs, eMusic is the second largest music download site after iTunes. In addition to tracks from many well-known artist in every genre, the service is the leading eletronic supplier of music from indie acts. It is also the only major music service to deliver songs in the universally compatible MP3 format. Kingston launched the Mobile Phone Village this summer to promote the use of removable memory, especially its own, with cell phones and smartphones. At the time of the launch, the company told PDAStreet the purpose of its existence is to enlighten visitors on a variety of topics; ranging from news to selecting the right removable memory for their device to tips on using and optimizing memory with mobile applications.... | |
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| | | Zenoss Becomes the Most Downloaded Commercial Open Source IT Management Platform | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:19:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | Zenoss, Inc., a leading provider of open source enterprise network and systems monitoring software, today announced that the Zenoss project has had over 50,000 downloads in the last 120 days -- making it the world's most popular commercial open source IT management platform based on download statistics from SourceForge.net, the leading open source distribution site. Launched in February 2006, the Zenoss IT monitoring solution has seen a meteoric rise to an activity rank of 250 out of more than 133,000 open source projects registered on SourceForge. "We're extremely pleased with the world-wide adoption and positive feedback Zenoss has received in such a short time," said Zenoss Project Lead Erik Dahl. "Clearly there is tremendous demand for alternatives to the traditional solutions for network and systems monitoring." Zenoss -- developed by experienced systems and network operators -- is the most complete IT monitoring product available as an open source product.... | |
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| | | Take A Test Drive Of Microsoft's Virtualized Server Software | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:14:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | Windows Server software is available in a virtualized format for what Microsoft is calling its Test Drive Program. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Nov 7, 2006 02:22 PM Microsoft is taking a step toward the world of virtualized software products by making Windows Server 2003 Release 2 Enterprise Edition available in virtualized format for what it's calling its Test Drive Program. Microsoft announced its VHD (virtual hard drive) Test Drive Program on Tuesday at VMworld 2006 in Los Angeles, the third annual user group meeting of virtualization vendor VMware. SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 1 is also available for download off Microsoft's site as a virtualized file. And early in 2007, Windows Vista will be made available for similar, 30-day trails.... | |
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| | | Rational Application Developer | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 7:33:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | Powered by Eclipse, optimized for IBM WebSphere software, supports multi-vendor runtime environments. Quickly design, develop, analyze, test, profile and deploy high-quality Web, service-oriented architecture (SOA), Java, J2EE, and portal applications. RAD includes basic UML diagram support and utilizes class and sequence diagrams as they apply to code visualization and visual editing of code. Rational Software Architect Includes all of the J2EE, Web, and Web services features of Rational Application Developer for WebSphere but delivers a more complete and robust model-driven development experience. Leverages model-driven development with the UML for creating well-architected applications and services Rational Software Modeler A customizable, UML-based visual modeling and design tool that enables users to clearly document and communicate these system views.... | |
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| | | Adobe Digital Editions - a new publishing platform | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:19:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | I wrote recently about the New York Times Reader and how I thought it was one of the best examples of Rich Internet Applications out there. Luckily, I don't think I was the only one impressed with the New York Times Reader because Adobe has announced a similar, if more broad initiative in their new Adobe Digital Editions application. Digital editions aims to give publishers a richer gateway into the technology world with technology that allows for DRM and offline/online synching. The press release is here. The new Digital Editions application has a lot of interesting concepts. It is built on a combination of Flex and Acrobat technology which means it is leveraging the strengths of Adobe's print and readability experience and the newly acquired Flash platform for interactivity.... | |
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| | | Nacho Libre Comic Book Creator Interactive Entertainment Software Launches in Millions of Jack Black Nacho Libre DVDs | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:20:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) October 24, 2006 -- Planetwide Interactive Nacho Libre Comic Book Creator Drag 'n Drop Comics Interactive Entertainment Software is embedded and featured in millions of Jack Black in Nacho Libre DVDs released today at retail by Paramount Home Video. Millions of fans will now be able to create their own Nacho Libre Comics using this intuitive drag 'n drop software technology and Jack Black character content. .... | |
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| | | Pentaho Celebrates Second Birthday, Partners With IBM | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:10:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | Pentaho Corp celebrated its second year of existence by surpassing 1.5 million downloads of its open source business intelligence software and announcing a new partnership with IBM Corp. The company's Pentaho Open BI suite, which includes components for OLAP, reporting, data mining and ETL, and workflow, was voted SourceForge.net's October project of the month after it consistently drew over 100,000 downloads per month. Pentaho officials were quick to point out that this alone represents more than the installed bases of incumbent commercial BI software providers like Business Objects, Cognos and Hyperion Solutions. However they omitted to say that only a tiny percentage of those downloads result in production ready and deployed enterprise BI software applications.... | |
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| | | AgileDelta, Inc. Offers Free 30-Day Evaluation Download of Efficient XML Software and Tools | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:10:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | AgileDelta(TM), Inc., the leading provider of software that enables lightning-fast delivery of information to remote, mobile and embedded devices at the edge of wireless networks, today announced the availability of a free 30-day evaluation download of its recently released Efficient XML(TM) 2.0 software. Efficient XML is a codec that, unlike data compression, encodes and decodes XML using a lightning-fast binary XML format that results in documents that are frequently over 100 times smaller and transmits over 100 times faster than XML. These speed and size improvements create tremendous opportunities for getting rich web data onto devices such as smart phones and PDAs that are typically limited by bandwidth, memory, processing power and battery life. The Efficient XML codec can be embedded in an application or can be installed directly on both sending and receiving devices that will share XML documents and data.... | |
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| | | Defrag: Among World's Most Important Software? | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 3:08:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | Make no mistake. The most important piece of software on your computer is the operating system. Without an operating system your computer isn't going to do much computing. But, assuming you do have an operating system, what should come next? A very strong argument can be made that a defragmentation program (also known as defrag software) is among the most important software you can install, and that no Windows-based system or computer should ever be without it. There are those that would argue that anti-virus and spyware programs should be next on the list when installing software. However, there is a flaw in this logic. Anti-virus and anti-spyware programs are important, make no mistake about it. But, how are you going to run these important programs if your computer isn't functioning correctly (or perhaps not functioning at all)? We've all experienced it; we run our favorite anti-virus program and then have to wait forever for it to do its job.... | |
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