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<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 07:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Companies trying, not buying, Office alternatives]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 07:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>humidist</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Companies are actively looking forMicrosoft Office alternatives such as Google Apps, but so far their interest hasn't dented the productivity suite's dominance, a Forrester Research study released today said.&quot;Adoption of alternatives relative to Microsoft Office is paltry, but interest remains high, with more than a quarter of companies actively looking at or experimenting with Web-based alternatives,&quot; Forrester said in the study. &quot;While the free versions of these programs make it easy for companies to try, concerns over user acceptance and compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats continue to hinder broader deployments.&quot;A Forrester Research study shows 72 percent of people are looking at alternatives to Microsoft Office.(Credit:Forrester Research)Interest in the alternatives should increase, though, because of a variety of factors: they can be cheaper, they're getting gradually more capable, and IT departments will segment users into categories and not everyone will get Microsoft Office.There are signs Google Apps in particular is raising concerns at Microsoft. For example, the company last week blogged about &quot;the Google tax,&quot; arguing that there are unseen costs to using Google Apps beyond the $50 per user per year fee. The biggest indicator, though, is that it's launched its own online Office suite, signaling that the idea has merit.Google Apps will get some attention this week at the Google I/O conference, where Google traditionally espouses its vision that life is better in the cloud. The company is working to make Apps more capable, adding new features' trying to advance Web standards such as Web Sockets and offline storage that will enable more features' and trying to improve the performance of browsers and the Web so the apps can become more responsive.Productivity suites aren't just about Microsoft Office vs Google Apps, of course. Other options include traditional software such as IBM's Lotus Symphony, Corel's WordPerfect Office, and Oracle's OpenOffice, as well as other online options such as Zoho's suite.In Forrester's survey of 150 IT decision makers, 3 percent said they're actively implementing Web-based alternatives, 10 percent said they're piloting or experimenting, 15 percent said they're actively looking, 44 percent said they're somewhat interested, and 27 percent said they're not interested.Regarding motives, improving worker productivity was the top option. Reducing license fee costs was second, and reducing dependency on Microsoft was third.With numerous features missing from online suites that are common in Office, one might be surprised to hear productivity as a reason to move to Google Apps. But it has one big asset: collaboration is built in, with a server housing a single copy of a document and managing how multiple people can edit it simultaneously. That can be an improvement to crude alternatives such as e-mailing a document among colleagues or managing how it's accessed on a central server.Access to documents from smartphones and multiple computers also can be an advantage.Google Apps often begins with e-mail use but spreads from there to the rest of the online tools. Google Apps' core includes word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and calendar apps.&quot;E-mail is the lead-in for many Google deployments, with Docs uptake happening in a grass-roots fashion or being &quot;turned on&quot; as a company ramps its use. Google reports, however, that Docs adoption is growing at a much faster rate than its other apps,&quot; Forrester said.But Web-based Office alternatives aren't up to Office's abilities by a long shot today.&quot;Content and collaboration professionals should only consider them as replacements for casual users,&quot; Forrester advised. &quot;However, they can provide complementary collaboration features for all users.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[6 ways to use public Wi-Fi hot spots safely]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>humidist</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<title><![CDATA[MPAA sues Hotfile, battle for cloud begins]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>humidist</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[For the first time, a group of Hollywood film studios has filed a copyright lawsuit against a cyberlocker.File-hosting service Hotfile has made a business out of offering a stash box for people to store their pirated movies, the Motion Picture Association of America claims in its suit against Hotfile. &quot;In less than two years, Hotfile has become one of the 100 most trafficked sites in the world,&quot; the MPAA said in a press release issued today. &quot;That is a direct result of the massive digital theft that Hotfile promotes.&quot;According to the MPAA, Hotfile is operated by Florida resident Anton Titov, who was not immediately available for comment. A growing number of digital-locker services have come under fire lately by copyright owners. Liberty Media Holdings, an adult-film studio, last month also filed a copyright suit against Hotfile. On the music side, EMI, the smallest of the four record labels, is suing MP3tunes.com, a digital locker specializing in the storage of songs. The cyberlockers are an alternative to BitTorrent file-sharing services and are growing in popularity. With these services, there's no need to download any software. A user logs on to a locker service and watches whatever films or TV shows are stored there. The MPAA was careful to make the distinction that not all cyberlockers are unlawful. That's important because the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's safe harbor protects Internet service providers as long as they obey some rules. The trade group for the top film studios said Hotfile doesn't come close to qualifying for safe harbor protection. The service &quot;openly discourages use of its system for personal storage,&quot; the MPAA wrote. &quot;Hotfile's business model encourages...users to upload files containing illegal copies of motion pictures and TV shows to its servers and to third-party sites.&quot;According to the MPAA's suit, Hotfile is no free-information advocate. This is straight-up piracy for profit, the trade group said. Hotfile collects revenues by charging a monthly fee. Correction 2:17 p.m. PT: This story incorrectly identified the company that filed a copyright complaint against Hotfile last month. Liberty Media Holdings is the correct name. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP: Customers can return products with faulty chip]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>humidist</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard announced today that customers can return products that use Intel's faulty Sandy Bridge chipset, following a similar announcement yesterday from Dell. A Dell Sandy Bridge Core i5 desktop pulled from sales by Best Buy.(Credit:Brooke Crothers)Intel said Monday that it had stopped shipments of the chipset that accompanies its Second-Generation Intel Core (&quot;Sandy Bridge&quot;) processor due to a flaw that can affect access to a hard-disk drive, optical drive, or other device that connects to a computer using SATA technology. Customers can &quot;return their affected product and choose a comparable product or receive a refund,&quot; HP said today in a statement. The world's largest PC maker repeated the now familiar mantra that the issue affects only a small fraction of PCs sold or ordered since January 9, 2011. For HP, the issue affects consumer desktops and laptops only. It does not impact commercial systems--such as Proliant servers or EliteBook laptops--except one model in the Europe-Middle East-Africa region, HP said. &quot;To deliver a high-quality experience to our customers, on 31 January 2011 HP stopped manufacturing products with the affected Intel technology and initiated a shipment hold on products in HP and channel inventory,&quot; HP said. This hold on manufacturing likely reflects what other computer makers are doing too. And particularly a company like Apple that is planning dual-core Sandy Bridge MacBooks. (Laptops affected to date are only quad-core models.) A statement from Intel VP Stephen Smith, made during a conference call Monday to discuss the chipset glitch, provides a pretty good idea of how long the delay will be. &quot;We were planning to launch those mainstream systems with dual core in a few weeks. And this will likely push out the window of launch a few weeks relative to our plans,&quot; Smith said. Which means if Apple's original launch plans were in the February-March window, systems would obviously be delayed. In the wake of the HP and Dell announcements, a chart of desktop and mobile Sandy Bridge processors may be helpful in determining if you have one of those systems from HP, Dell--or other vendors--or if you were planning to purchase an affected Sandy Bridge system in the immediate future. There are a few items worth noting in the charts. A processor with the status of &quot;Launched&quot; (in the far right column) indicates a product that had been shipping prior to Intel's Monday announcement, while a processor listed with a status of &quot;Announced&quot; indicates a future shipment date. And note that while the Sandy Bridge processor does not have the defect, a chipset is delivered, almost invariably, together with the processor. Also note that there have been erroneous reports stating that faulty Cougar Point chipsets shipped to date are desktop-only models. This is inaccurate. Intel has stated clearly in the past (and reiterated today) that both desktop and laptop chipsets have shipped. Sandy Bridge Core i5 quad-core desktop processors. &amp;39'Launched&amp;39' indicates shipments had begun. (Credit:Intel)Sandy Bridge quad-core Core i7 desktop processors. (Credit:Intel)Sandy Bridge Core i5 mobile processors. &amp;39'Announced&amp;39' indicates a future ship date.(Credit:Intel)Sandy Bridge Core i7 mobile processors. &amp;39'Lanched&amp;39' indicates shipments had begun. &amp;39'Announced&amp;39' indicates a future ship date.(Credit:Intel)See complete list of Intel processors (PDF). <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft warns of script injection attacks in IE]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>humidist</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is warning Windows users of a new &quot;critical&quot; vulnerability that affects all versions of the company's Windows operating system. The issue, detailed in Security Advisory 2501696--which was released last week--details a vulnerability in the way Internet Explorer handles MHTML on certain types of Web pages and document objects. As a result, hackers and other third parties that exploit the vulnerability can gain access to a user's information, or their computer through script injection. In its advisory, Microsoft said it had &quot;not seen any indications of active exploitation of the vulnerability,&quot; but that the company was aware of &quot;proof-of-concept code&quot; that attempts to exploit it.To keep the vulnerability at bay, Microsoft has issued suggestions for users to lock down Active Scripting, and ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer, as well as MHTML. Microsoft also said it was working with service providers to investigate server-side workarounds to the issue, as well as including any fixes in future software security updates. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Subscriptions put Apple in antitrust spotlight again]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators are looking once more into Apple&amp;'s control over the applications available on the iPhone and iPad, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. This time it&amp;'s Applea4a4s subscription feature for apps (which the company unveiled yesterday) that&amp;'s attracting antitrust scrutiny.The problem isna4a4t the subscription plan per se, in which Apple takes the same 30 percent cut that it does on App Store purchases, but rather the restrictions that Apple put around it. The company said that any app offering a subscription plan elsewhere has to offer it within Apple&amp;'s iOS app too, and at the same price. In addition, publishers cannot include links inside their app to purchase content or subscriptions elsewhere.The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are both in the preliminary stage of their investigations, according to the Journal&amp;'s sources (who are a4Apeople familiar with the mattera4), so they may not take any action against Apple or even launch a formal investigation. Eric Goldman, director of Santa Clara University&amp;'s High Tech Law Institute, told the Journal that Apple&amp;'s prohibition of links sounds like a4Aa pretty aggressive position.a4 And the restriction on offering a better price elsewhere could be considered anti-competitive too if it distorts pricing.Ita4a4s widely believed that the FTC was investigating Apple last year for its ban on tools that converted non-native apps into iPhone apps, and that the investigation pressured Apple into backing off. So if this investigation gets real momentum, we may see another about-face.Ita4a4s also interesting to see that much of the opposition to Applea4a4s plan seems to be coming from music startups. Rhapsody said yesterday that its subscription model wona4a4t work if Apple takes 30 percent, and today Last.fma4a4s co-founder said Apple a4Afucked over music subs for the iPhone.a4 The Journal article also includes complaints from music startups, including Axel Dauchez, president of French startup Deezer, who says giving Apple 30 percent of a subscription is a4Aso obviously anticompetitive that it will never survive in Europe.a4Ita4a4s not surprising that Apple is facing some of its loudest opposition from these companies, since the royalty costs for music make it notoriously difficult for startups in the music field to make money. Not even popular Internet radio app Pandora expects to make a profit this year.Next Story: Zyngaa4a4s new funding values CityVille maker at $10B Previous Story: Calling all gamers! U.S. video games sales dip 5 percent in JanuaryPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: FTC, iPad, music, subscriptionsCompanies: ApplePeople: Eric Goldman          Tags: FTC, iPad, music, subscriptionsCompanies: ApplePeople: Eric GoldmanAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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