The News Review:
- A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle’s technology blog…
- Embattled Palm brings Treo 750 to Canada
- ffice 2003 SP3 released
A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle’s technology blog…
San Francisco Chronicle – Sep 20, 2007
And the company clearly has some work to do to accommodate its potential growth because the site was already a bit slow earlier Tuesday after so many people tried to use it. Mint based in Mountain View premiered at the inaugural TechCrunch40 what will likely become an annual event held by technology industry celebrities Michael Arrington founder of the popular TechCrunch blog and Jason Calacanis a serial Internet entrepreneur. – Verne Kopytoff Google’s new product takes on PowerPointIncreasing its effort to unseat Microsoft as the king of office software Google Inc. has released a product for making presentations that competes – kind of – against industry leader Microsoft PowerPoint. Google added the service to its existing bundle of office products Google Docs late Monday. The Mountain View company said in April that it was working on the product following the acquisition of a business that specialized in the area. Google’s presentation product like its others including its word processor and spreadsheets is online allowing users to collaborate with others to make additions and edits.
Embattled Palm brings Treo 750 to Canada
CI – Sep 20, 2007
2007 22:31 Uhr Embattled Palm brings Treo 750 to Canada The smartphone also boasts broadband-like 3G Internet speed 128 megabytes of memory and built-in Bluetooth along with the ability to function as a modem for laptops. The new Treo has another advantage over the BlackBerry said Warren–the new Windows Mobile 6 operating system. This said Warren offers currency including covetable interoperability with key Microsoft productivity applications like Word Excel and even PowerPoint.
ffice 2003 SP3 released
Ars Technica – Sep 20, 2007
The Microsoft ffice division has just released Service Pack 3 for 2003 and it is available for download through ffice Update or. The update includes a number of hotfixes that were released post-SP2 as well as some new tweaks. New fixes in Excel include performance improvements for loading files over slow networks and updates to the error-reporting service… New fixes in Excel include performance improvements for loading files over slow networks and updates to the error-reporting service. Word gets fixes for many formatting errors as well as for the problem some users had copying and pasting text from web pages. PowerPoint gets attention for problems with the "Package for CD" feature. In addition to bug fixes SP3 contains numerous security patches to close recently-discovered holes.