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Microsoft Office 2010 beta

The revised productivity suite brings interface tweaks, useful desktop innovations, and integration with minimalist Web apps

Akvis ArtSuite 5.0 review

Simple photo effects program Akvis ArtSuite offers a generally attractive selection of frames and effects

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 review

A significant improvement over SharePoint 07

Whitelisting security comes of age

Remarkably good solutions from Bit9, CoreTrace, Lumension, McAfee, and SignaCert show that whitelisting may be the new best defense

SignaCert Enterprise Trust Services application control

SignaCert is great for monitoring compliance with application and configuration policies, but it lacks built-in blocking

Bit9 Parity Suite

Bit9 Parity 5.0 shines brightest among whitelisting competitors with strong protection and useful risk metrics

Jolicloud OS

Even in alpha testing, this looks like a great netbook OS

Ubuntu Netbook Remix

The world's most popular Linux distro on your netbook

Bean review

Is TextEdit too minimal and Word too much? Bean fits somewhere in between

BitDefender Total Security 2008

BitDefender Total Security 2008 lumps together its antivirus and antispyware scanning

Essential guide to the best software for small business

Our pick of the best applications for your office

Gizmo Drive

Gizmo Drive is free software that mounts and burns image files

PeerBlock review

PeerBlock is free software that helps you surf the web in secret

Lumension application control review

Lumension Application Control is a competitive product with a number of standout features and one significant omission

McAfee Application Control review

McAfee's whitelisting protection for Windows, Linux, and Solaris is short on shortcomings

CoreTrace Bouncer application control review

CoreTrace Bouncer 5 provides first-rate application control with a few unique features

Moblin 2.0 review

Intel's baby is still full of bugs

Google Music Search service review

Google got a lot more musical this week

Intuit Quicken Premier 2010 software review

We were impressed by the improvements we found over previous versions

Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0

Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 is the latest PC security suite from Kaspersky


Techworld White Papers

Database security: Preventing enterprise data leaks at the source

IDC discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices...

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Service-oriented security

SOA has become an integral part of enterprise software by providing a framework to efficiently develop software as services that is easily sharable, reusable, and integrated. No where is the need more apparent than in the Identity Management space. Welcome to the age of Service-Oriented Security (SOS).

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Data protection prospective vendor checklist

Organisations need a way to map business needs against all these challenges in procuring a technical solution. To help, SANS has developed the following Prospective Vendor Checklist.

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Unlock the power of the mainframe

This whitepaper presents the notion of CICS as an integration hub based on a component-based, service-oriented architecture supporting Web services. Highlights will review the challenges and contrasted support for Web services natively in CICS.

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COLT White Paper

Are all VoIP services the same?

Questions to ask your service provider to ensure you get the VoIP service you need
With careful choice of partner, your business can have all the advantages of VoIP access - reduced costs, flexibility and simplicity - without the drawbacks.
This white paper is your guide to ensure you get right the VoIP service and details the pitfalls which businesses would do well to avoid.

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BMC

Ride the express lane in the journey to speed ITIL adoption

Explore the challenges in making the journey to ITIL and the criteria for selecting consulting services
By following ITIL practices, your IT organisation will become more closely integrated with the business. We recommend making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through execution of a strategic transformational roadmap.

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Webcast: IT Financial Management: Cost Optimisation for Efficiency and Agility.
On Demand Webcast
Join this webcast to learn about the techniques and technologies that can help you prove the value of IT to the business by understanding the true cost of today's IT services and those that will be necessary to deliver future success.

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