ZDNet has a story on Microsoft’s Office 12, and new functionality that will enable people to publish documents in the Adobe PDF format. Office 12, which is expected to be completed by the second half of 2006, will let end users take an Office document and convert it to PDF format, Brian Jones, a program…
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500 Million People Worldwide are Expected to own Camera Phone
How is this going to change our public world? I wonder if this could mean huge steps forward in the fight against corruption in third world countries? What about here in the US? What about right to privacy from strangers? By the end of this year, 500 million people worldwide are expected to own a…
Consumption of Web Services Will Greatly Increase Through 2009
Interesting look ahead. This is a key trend in regards to how and where corporations are spending their Information Systems money. The Internet is the great “integrator”, making cohesiveness in business processes possible. “Web services are expected to become even more pervasively used throughout the entire computing stack,” said Sandra Rogers, program director for SOA,…
Companies Turn to Knowledge Management to Solve Information Overload
A recent survey of 122 European business executives has found that, of all strategic technologies, knowledge management solutions rank first among executives in terms of importance in large companies. The survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, indicated that this may be because the majority of executives feel unable to use large amounts of the…
Apple Launches New ITunes Phone, Changing the Face of Media
This is trend-setting and is part of what will change how people engage with Media. The key idea behind this sort of technology is to combine tools, and allow individuals to listen to what they want when they want to. Media is going one-on-one, instead of the old-world fashion of “broad”casting. By GREG SANDOVALAP Technology…
Wi-FiTV Launches
Wi-FiTV (www.wi-fitv.com), a broadband Web site that features more than 200 TV channels from around the world, launched last week. The site bills itself as providing one-click access to news, sports, music and general-entertainment channels, fitting its definition of IPTV. The channels can be accessed using any broadband connection — cable, digital subscriber line or…