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Sep 3rd, 2010

REVIEW: IRISCard Anywhere 4

Any business person who regularly attends meetings with colleagues, clients or others probably acquires pockets full of business cards. These can be at their most prolific just after large conferences at which networking is a key activity. The last thing many of us want to do after attending tiring conferences is spend an age typing [...]

Sep 1st, 2010

REVIEW: Adobe Captivate 5

Somewhat loosely defined and ambiguous, the term e-learning is applied to a whole mess of applications used to aid the delivery of education or training by electronic means, typically at a distance. More specifically it’s applied to applications used to author and deliver course content, as with Adobe’s Captivate, which can be used to create [...]

Aug 31st, 2010

REVIEW: Buffalo TeraStation WSS

While network-attached storage (NAS) provides many advantages for small-midsized businesses (SMBs), it also presents many challenges. In addition, Buffalo Technology might not be the first name you think of when it comes to direct attached storage solutions. So, can the Austin, Texas-based company deliver when it comes to managing and protecting critical businesses information? What is [...]

Aug 24th, 2010

REVIEW: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Long gone are the days when programmers typed in code by hand. The size and complexity of modern applications has led to the introduction of much more sophisticated tools to enable developers to design, test and debug their programs. Referred to as Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, packages, several such products exist, designed to work [...]

Aug 16th, 2010

REVIEW: Microsoft Office Web Apps

Cloud-based services to enable users to create, edit and share documents online using just a browser could be the next big thing, led by likes of Google and Zoho both established providers of hosted office tools. Microsoft, however has been slow to react, only recently getting its online act together in the form of Office [...]

Aug 10th, 2010

REVIEW: Intuit QuickBooks 2010 Premier

Among the very first applications to be developed for the PC, bookkeeping and accounting tolls are something of a specialist product, but still a PC staple. Suppliers have come and gone over the years, including Microsoft which briefly dabbled in the market a couple of years back, leaving just a handful to choose from, with [...]

Jul 29th, 2010

REVIEW: FileMaker Pro 11

Databases are to be found behind the majority of applications, providing the technology to capture, store, manipulate and regurgitate data as and when required. Database packages, however, can be complex and difficult to master, something FileMaker attempts to address with a user-friendly wrapper around its FileMaker Pro package, designed to make this very competent database [...]

Jul 20th, 2010

REVIEW: Apple Mac Mini Server

Apple servers are, traditionally, large, expensive and complex to manage, limiting their appeal to bigger companies with deep pockets and plenty of in-house expertise. However, that’s no longer the case, following the introduction of a much cheaper and simpler Apple server platform based on the same hardware as the Mac mini desktop. What is it and [...]

Jul 9th, 2010

REVIEW: Symantec Backup Exec 2010

The backup market is no longer just about copying data from disk to tape and back again. Scalable disk-to-disk backup has become a prime requirement, along with the ability to minimise storage requirements through data deduplication plus archiving of rarely used backup data to cheaper offline media. The leading backup vendors have all been busy enhancing [...]

Jul 6th, 2010

REVIEW: Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Following months of beta testing, the latest incarnation of Microsoft’s massively popular Web-based collaboration platform, SharePoint 2010, has finally hit the streets. More than just a makeover, the 2010 product drops the ‘Microsoft Office’ tag of the previous 2007 implementation and sports both a swish new management interface and support for PowerShell scripting. Business oriented social [...]

Jun 22nd, 2010

REVIEW: Data Robotics DroboElite

Disk storage can be attached to a server in a couple of ways, either directly (internally or externally) or via a dedicated Storage Area Network (SAN). Traditional SAN technology uses Fibre Channel hardware to link servers and storage together but in recent years there’s been a move to cheaper commodity Ethernet to provide the infrastructure, [...]

Jun 17th, 2010

REVIEW: Microsoft Office 2010

Virtually synonymous with desktop productivity tools, Microsoft Office is not just the market leader, it’s the one product that nearly every user has on their PC. Not content with that situation, however, Microsoft continues to develop the product, with Office 2010 the latest implementation of its number one desktop best seller. It’s being updated furiously, but [...]

Jun 15th, 2010

REVIEW: Lenovo T410s

Many companies look for brand as much as for features when selecting their laptops. They want a brand―and a laptop design―that says ‘We are a no-nonsense organisation which chooses only the best for our staff. We buy the right tools for the job and they enable us to work well for you.’ Lenovo plays to this [...]

Jun 10th, 2010

REVIEW: Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server

Following a lengthy period of consolidation, the backup and recovery market is now dominated by a handful of vendors selling well-established products. Nearly all of these were developed, originally, to use tape as a backup medium, although all now embrace disk-to-disk and other more modern technologies. Acronis is a relative newcomer to this market, coming from [...]

May 19th, 2010

REVIEW: HTC HD Mini

Smartphone vendors shipped 54.7 million units in the first quarter this year, up 56.7% from last year, according to research firm Gartner. Within that same time period, Google’s Android OS surpassed Windows Mobile and Linux to become the fourth most popular operating system on smartphones in the first quarter. Android, which is on around 10% of [...]

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