The News Review:
- X2 Media & JB&A Distribution Ink Deal For Digital Signage…
- EU Asks Microsoft Rivals About Word Excel Dominance (Update4)
- Critical Bugs Plague Starffice penffice
- NGS Boosts BI fferings for System i
- Asiaone – S’pore firm offers
X2 Media & JB&A Distribution Ink Deal For Digital Signage…
broadcastbuyer.tv – Mar 27, 2007
The founders of VertigoXmedia which delivered graphics solutions for some of the world’s most demanding television productions have created X2 Media to make these revolutionary end-to-end digital signage solutions a reality. X2 Media offers easy-to-use authoring tools with broadcast-quality video expertise in creating and managing graphics and content and a variety of services which can be customized to specific requirements. The company’s Xpresenter solution is an affordable easy-to-use system that allows Microsoft PowerPoint users to produce broadcast-quality graphics that incorporate animations clip art galleries video clips and real-time data sources ? all without ever leaving the PowerPoint interface. X2 Media will be releasing version 2. 0 of Xpresenter in April 2007. Xpresenter includes a style gallery of graphics templates custom control panels video clip previewing and tools for quickly resizing presentations to fit the varying dimensions of output displays and broadcast monitors. With Xpresenter users can easily produce compelling presentations containing live information with minimal effort for any type of visual display including corporate presentations digital signage displays hospitality channel programming and much more.
EU Asks Microsoft Rivals About Word Excel Dominance (Update4)
Bloomberg – Mar 27, 2007
's competitors on whether the company is using itsdominance in word processing and spreadsheets to thwart rivalsweighing whether to open a new front in the antitrust dispute. The European Commission in Brussels asked for “concreteexamples'' of the software maker's failure to provide enoughinformation to allow competitors to share documents withMicrosoft ffice according to a copy of the questionnaireobtained by Bloomberg News. ffice includes Word Excel thePowerPoint presentation program and utlook e-mail software. The query is in response to a complaint last year by a grouprepresenting companies including International Business MachinesCorp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. The organization the EuropeanCommittee for Interoperability Systems claims Microsoft doesn'tprovide formatting and other information to allow rival productsto work with Word and Excel. The commission wants companies to explain how Microsoft“refuses to supply'' information to let products“interoperate'' with ffice according to the letter… and Sun Microsystems Inc. The organization the EuropeanCommittee for Interoperability Systems claims Microsoft doesn'tprovide formatting and other information to allow rival productsto work with Word and Excel. The commission wants companies to explain how Microsoft“refuses to supply'' information to let products“interoperate'' with ffice according to the letter. Thequestionnaire which was sent this month doesn't say whether theEU will start a formal antitrust probe against Microsoft. “Microsoft is committed to complying with European law''the company said in an e-mailed statement. “We are alsocommitted to interoperability and to broadly licensing ourtechnology. '' Commission spokesman.
Critical Bugs Plague Starffice penffice
PC World – Mar 27, 2007
Bugs in Microsoft Corp. ‘s ffice suite for example have been used in several targeted attacks in the last year. The most recent Microsoft-issued security update patched six flaws in Word and other vulonerabilities in Excel and PowerPoint ffice’s spreadsheet and presentation maker respectively.
NGS Boosts BI fferings for System i
IT Jungle – Mar 27, 2007
5 also gives users the option of exporting dashboards to. Fine-tuning the look and feel of NGS dashboards is also easier thanks to a new “panel set” component that enable users to navigate between files in a presentation embed JPG or Flash animation files into the frames and adjust formatting features. The new release also lets users add animation to their chart components provide additional information for displaying stock market information (such as a stock’s opening close high and low prices) and provides three new graphical “skins”: graphite halo and Windows classic.
Asiaone – S’pore firm offers
Asiane – Mar 27, 2007
But before you hit the road with it make sure you buy compatible navigational software like Mapking to start using GPS. You may wish to consider getting a gadget to hold the phone in your car too as the D810 package doesn’t include one. The D810 also features BlackBerry Connect service in addition to its Microsoft Direct Push e-mail solution so Blackberry addicts will be totally at home using it. Again existing customers can download this feature from Dopod’s website. Aside from these two new updates the Windows Mobile 5. 0-based D810 is already packed to the brim with features like Wi-Fi HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) a 2-megapixel digital camera camcorder MP3 player mini-SD card slot RSS News Reader and more. The standard suite of mobile applications such as Word Excel PowerPoint Mobile utlook Mobile and Pocket MSN are included… Aside from these two new updates the Windows Mobile 5. 0-based D810 is already packed to the brim with features like Wi-Fi HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) a 2-megapixel digital camera camcorder MP3 player mini-SD card slot RSS News Reader and more. The standard suite of mobile applications such as Word Excel PowerPoint Mobile utlook Mobile and Pocket MSN are included. In design the phone is simple and uncluttered with the front of it dominated only by a 2. 8-inch QVGA screen. It is the right size too for a PDA phone at 108mm by 58.