The News Review:
- Cisco Eyes Web Alternative To Microsoft ffice
- Microsoft seeks a name for its new ffice Web Apps suite
- HTC Touch Pro2
Cisco Eyes Web Alternative To Microsoft ffice
InformationWeek
A key element of the next version of ffice is expected to be lightweight browser-based versions of the full. The Web Applications in ffice 14 scheduled for release next year will include the ability to edit view and collaborate on documents.
Microsoft seeks a name for its new ffice Web Apps suite
ZDNet Blogs
But why let an already trademarked name go to waste?)Microsoft also is sharing a bit more positioning information about the forthcoming suite of Web-hosted Word PowerPoint Excel and neNote apps that it is expected to release to a wider group of testers in mid-July as part of the. According to a Web survey which seems to be aimed more at IT pros and developers than consumers Microsoft is clearly positioning ffice Web Apps as complements to client-based ffice not as a replacement to it. The survey asks which of the above-mentioned names does the best job of describing an offering that would compete with Google Apps Google’s hosted app suite aimed at business users.
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HTC Touch Pro2
CNET News
At GSMA 2009 HTC announced that it would offer a Windows Mobile 6. 5 upgrade when the new mobile operating system is available though this will also be dependent on the carriers. In the meantime you still get the standard. In addition it offers Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology for real-time e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization with your utlook calendar tasks and contacts via Exchange Server and support for PP3 and IMAP accounts. In addition to the staple PIM tools such as Adobe Reader LE a Zip manager a voice recorder a calculator and a notepad the smartphone comes with a handful of extra applications including Jetcet Presenter 5 WorldCard Mobile business card scanner and a Teeter game.