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Aussies pay more for Adobe Acrobat 9

Australians can expect to pay close to forty percent more than their US counterparts for a copy Adobe Acrobat 9. However, Aussies are getting a better deal than their UK counterparts, who can expect to pay twice as much.

26/06/2008 01:02 PM

Google Docs gets limited PDF support

Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but still useful support for PDF files.

18/06/2008 10:10 AM

Google trials new Gmail features

Google will invite users to try new features the company is considering adding to its Gmail service, the company said Thursday.

06/06/2008 11:05 AM

Adobe Acrobat takes big online leap

Adobe Acrobat takes big online leap

Adobe is launching an online community with a word processor and file sharing, while adding Flash and interactive maps to Acrobat 9.

02/06/2008 05:53 PM

Adobe to refresh Acrobat Connect

Adobe to refresh Acrobat Connect

Adobe Systems' upgraded Web conferencing service will add meeting editing, archiving features as well as virtual breakout rooms for online classes.

06/05/2008 12:20 PM

Whaddyareckon?: The evils of e-mail

Whaddyareckon?: The evils of e-mail  Video

E-mail has been a boon for business, but is it used more for time-wasting and gossipfests than actual work? We find out.

11/04/2008 12:18 PM

Whaddyareckon?: Dodgy technology

Have you ever bought the wrong thing and been burned by a tech disaster? With technology impacting so many facets of our lives, few of us are immune, as we find out on the streets of Sydney this week.

07/03/2008 03:03 PM

Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client finally gets calendar

Mozilla Foundation has finally integrated the Lightning calendar to its latest incarnation of open-source e-mail client, Thunderbird 3.0. Users can also expect improved search.

20/02/2008 12:39 PM

Protect your spreadsheets: Hackers attack Excel

Protect your spreadsheets: Hackers attack Excel

Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning that attackers are targeting versions of its Office Excel with vulnerabilities.

17/01/2008 10:48 AM

Office SP3: Are new formats more secure?

Blocking old file formats in the Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) release was meant to bolster security for Microsoft customers, but whether the new formats are any more secure than older ones is debatable.

09/01/2008 09:34 AM

Microsoft: Office 2003 SP3 advisory was a mistake

Microsoft: Office 2003 SP3 advisory was a mistake

Microsoft has acknowledged it made a mistake over a security advisory it released concerning Office 2003.

08/01/2008 11:58 AM

Microsoft adapts Outlook for photographers

Microsoft adapts Outlook for photographers

A free plug-in lets photographers create sorted lists of necessary gear for photo shoots. Plus, Microsoft makes it easier to find raw image codecs.

04/01/2008 11:15 AM

Word, PowerPoint blocked by Office 2003 update

Word, PowerPoint blocked by Office 2003 update

The latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003 has made a range of older files inaccessible, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, it emerged this week.

04/01/2008 10:39 AM

Microsoft moves first elements of Office online

Microsoft will soon release a beta of Office Live Workspace, a free tool for viewing, sharing and storing, but not editing, Office documents online.

02/10/2007 09:23 AM

Microsoft delays Office 2008 for Mac

Microsoft has pushed back the release of Office 2008 for Mac, from the second half of this year to next January because it wasn't satisifed with the product.

06/08/2007 11:41 AM

Microsoft delays Office converters for Mac

As it tries to finish the next version of Office for the Mac, Microsoft has delayed efforts to enable current users of the productivity software to work with the new file formats used in the latest Windows version of the desktop software.

16/05/2007 10:09 AM

Office 2003 to get security upgrade

Microsoft plans to make some of the security improvements and features it built into Office 2007 available for Office 2003, a company representative said on Thursday.

27/04/2007 12:11 PM

Wikipedia woos the offline world

A CD featuring about 2,000 of the online encyclopedia's "best" articles will be aimed at those without Internet access.

26/04/2007 12:20 PM

Microsoft starts testing Office 2008 for Mac

Microsoft has started private testing of the next version of Office for the Macintosh, which is due out in the second half of the year.

02/04/2007 10:18 AM

Wikipedia rival makes its debut

Citizendium offers community-contributed encyclopedia content with a few editorial controls (like full-name registration).

27/03/2007 10:47 AM

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