The News Review:
- Give online life to desktop documents
- Stores expand their online shopping services
- Latest cool ideas for wireless gifts
Give online life to desktop documents
Hindu – Nov 25, 2007
Bangalore: You have a desktop or laptop PC with a connection to the Internet. You still use earlier versions of Microsoft’s ffice tools such as the word processor Word the presentation tool Powerpoint and the spread sheet Excel. You have not upgraded to the latest — 2007 — versions of MS ffice. May be you could no longer afford to do so. Thirty Indian engineers based in Bangalore have created a suite of online productivity tools that enables such users to enjoy the look feel and much of the functionality of the newest edition of the three main Microsoft ffice tools by downloading for free a 5-megabyte chunk of software. What’s more they can work on their files from any machine anywhere by accessing them from a 100 megabyte storage space that is provided to them on the Web; they can switch seamlessly from desktop to Web and back; they can share their files from chosen friends or colleagues; they can collaborate on a single document deciding who can share what and exchanging comments live through text pop-pops.
Stores expand their online shopping services
Roanoke Times – Nov 25, 2007
Linda McMillian opened Computer Tutor in ctober inside Huntsman ffice Park at 7629 Williamson Road. McMillian teaches various computer skills by appointment. Her instruction includes teaching Microsoft Word and Excel PowerPoint and how to download pictures from a digital camera. She also teaches Internet searching skills and keyboarding. McMillian said her classes are for all ages. She decided to offer them on an individual basis because people sometimes are intimidated in large classes she said. She charges a $20 fee for 45-minute appointments.
Latest cool ideas for wireless gifts
Seattle Times – Nov 24, 2007
I say that mostly because it comes with 2 gigabytes of internal memory. It’s $100 after rebate and a two-year contract. The Motorola Q9h available from AT&T is a major upgrade from the original Motorola Q also a Microsoft Windows Mobile phone. Put simply this is not a consumer device. The slim yet wide and substantial device sits heavily in your hand and is for dedicated power users. It has a supernice keyboard for big clumsy thumbs to fire off e-mails and even create or edit PowerPoint presentations PDFs and Excel spreadsheets with the highly popular Documents To Go application included. The phone comes equipped with HSDPA AT&T’s fastest network with download speeds up to 3… Put simply this is not a consumer device. The slim yet wide and substantial device sits heavily in your hand and is for dedicated power users. It has a supernice keyboard for big clumsy thumbs to fire off e-mails and even create or edit PowerPoint presentations PDFs and Excel spreadsheets with the highly popular Documents To Go application included. The phone comes equipped with HSDPA AT&T’s fastest network with download speeds up to 3. 6 megabits per second. The Q also comes with the Qpak. The Qpak — a first from what I can tell — offers the user a number of games applications and other services free (for a year).