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Frugal can shop Internet for software freebies
Tech junkies looking to pinch pennies in today's economy can scour the Web for a bounty of free software - for word-processing and photo-editing, online storage and more.
Read more News Source - USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News
Publish date - 17:12:30 07/02/08

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The Frugal Can Shop Internet for Software Freebies
Tech junkies looking to pinch pennies in today's economy can scour the Web for a bounty of free software -- for word-processing and photo-editing, online storage and more. Dozens of downloadable or online-only applications are available at no charge. While many are scaled-down versions of paid programs, you'd be surprised at how feature-rich these freebies can be. The catch? Some of these ...
Read more News Source - Enterprise Security Today
Publish date - 15:01:13 07/03/08

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IBM plans to mount its most ambitious challenge in years to Microsoft's dominance of personal computer software, by offering free programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations . Steven A. Mills, senior vice president of IBM's software group, said the programs promote an open-source document format.
Read more News Source - New Mobile Computing
Publish date - 18:43:38 07/02/08

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What's Holding OpenOffice Back?
Why doesn't free trump expensive? Every Microsoft product has a free, open source counterpart created by dedicated programmers who loathe everything the company stands for. The free stuff is darn good. Yet companies and individuals continue to buy billions of dollars worth of Microsoft products.
Read more News Source - LinuxInsider.com
Publish date - 11:08:36 07/06/08

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How Well Does Software Work as a Service?
You might be tired of the phrase "think outside the box," but that's what Software as a Service does -- the "box" being your computer. Though many are leery of having their critical software served up over the Internet, Web 2.0 advances are making SaaS more practical, and desirable.
Read more News Source - Law.com
Publish date - 02:26:04 07/02/08

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When to splurge and when to save on your wedding
NEW YORK - Khris Cochran splurged for her wedding seven years ago. The ceremony was in a rose garden overlooking San Francisco Bay. The cake was made by a star baker featured on the Food Network. The honeymoon was in French Polynesia.
Read more News Source - The Times-News
Publish date - 06:27:43 07/06/08

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Is Online Learning For You?
More and more college students are taking classes online, according to a new survey by the College Board and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. About 3.2 million people took at least one college course online during the fall of 2005 term, compared to 2.3 million in the fall of 2004.
Read more News Source - Carteret County News-Times
Publish date - 10:15:08 07/05/08

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Microsoft releases files on software
Microsoft Corp., heeding European regulators' demands to open up its software, has published thousands of pages of technical documentation showing developers how to make outside programs work with the company's applications.
Read more News Source - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Publish date - 07:18:54 07/01/08

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Machine music
Punk-loving robots pogo in the name of science
Read more News Source - BBC News
Publish date - 10:14:39 07/04/08

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Adobe unveils Reader 9 with Flash
The latest version of Adobe's free PDF-reading software, which plays movies and animation for the first time, is available.
Read more News Source - ZDNet Asia
Publish date - 02:34:40 07/03/08

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Something for the weekend
Compelling yet one can't quite escape the nagging feeling of contributing to a sentient super-computer that will someday enslave us ... Iain Simons introduces GWAP.COM
Read more News Source - The New Statesman
Publish date - 08:41:15 07/04/08

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Firefox 3 burns up competition
Some call it "Browser War 2.0." Software companies are vying to lasso you into using their product for leaping between Web sites. And because of the strange economics of the online world, the price is unbeatable: All the browsers are free.
Read more News Source - WDAM-TV Hattiesburg
Publish date - 16:12:10 07/02/08

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Corel profit drops on one-time items
Corel Corp said on Thursday that second-quarter profit fell 60 percent as it accounted for restructuring and buyout bid review costs without last year's big income tax recovery.
Read more News Source - Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News
Publish date - 14:20:56 07/03/08

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AbiWord 2.5.1 has been released for AmigaOS4 using Cygnix. Besides AbiWord's usual word processing features, this package also includes a KHTML-based browser for AmigaOS4.
Read more News Source - New Mobile Computing
Publish date - 13:57:39 06/30/08

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