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Voice over IP (VoIP) technology is getting a makeover, and service providers hope it will reinvent the industry. There's a shift away from VoIP toward hosted unified communications -- that is, integrated voice, instant messenger, email, workflow applications, CRM and procurement ...

Fast and cost-friendly video conferencing could son become as commonplaceas cellphones at home and at work, and the firm Vidyo hopes to cash in on the trend with a new, specially designed architecture ...

Using a scanner in Linux is somewhat different than using that samescanner hardware in Windows. This week's Linux Picks focuses on howthe XSane scanner app handles that process ...

Lucid Lynx, Canonical's latest desktop release of Ubuntu(10.04), sports a new look and feel designed to attract new users, both in business and at home ...

The ubiquitous CD/DVD platter may be on its way to Legacyville, onetown away from the FloppyTown and the once-popular ZipDisk City.Large-capacity USB and micro disk storage media go where the CD/DVDcannot go -- small mobile gadgets ...

As business offerings go, Go800'splan is simple: It gives mobile consumers a quickkeyword connection to a call-back from vendors. The vendor's ad lists an easy-to-remember keyword, a ready-to-buy viewer texts that keyword to Go800, and a moment later the viewer's phone rings with a call from the vendor. The system attempts to bridge the chasm between text/SMS and old-fashioned tollfree numbers, noted the new company's president and founder, IkeSutton...

Rhythmbox, anintegrated music management application, was originally inspired byApple's iTunes. This open source app works on the GnomeDesktop and is based on the powerful GStreamer media framework ...

Gnome Commander, an advanced twin-panel graphical file manager for the Linux OS, brings back memories of mypre-Windows days. That is an era when graphical shell programs werepopular before the Microsoft DOS (Disk Operating System) desktop gaveway to the Windows 95 GUI (Graphical User Interface) ...

The PDF format is now the standard for publishing and print-basedindustries. As you would expect, numerous free and inexpensive PDFreaders are available, but relatively few inexpensive PDF creator apps exist ...

Linux provides more than one way to listen to music collections. Thebare-bones solution is to click on a music file from within a filemanager app. The high-end approach is to playback music with Amarok ...

The Linux world is filled with numerous capable packages for justabout every computing category. Graphics manipulation applications areno exception. In any list of able-bodied graphics candidates, GIMP 2.6 should be one of the top three contenders ...

Symantec announced on Tuesday four newsecurity and compliance software suites that it claims remedy the most commonsecurity shortcomings exploited by today's targeted attacks ...

Text editors are becoming more essential in today's Web-basedcomputing world. Gone are the days when users need hard-copy versionsof their documents. Also gone are the days when documents need to begussied up with fancy fonts and fanciful page formatting ...

The file manager utility more than any other system app on anycomputing platform is the workhorse of daily computing tasks. Linuxusers have numerous file managers as choices. Depending on the distro, usually one or two default apps are preinstalled -- but thesemight not be the best options ...

The economic hardships hitting businesses worldwide over the last several months have compelled may an IT department to steer costly new initiatives into indefinite holding patterns. However, these stalled technology upgrades are beginning to find new corporate support. A new survey by Robert Half Technology reveals some organizations are finally planning to implement projects that earlier had been shelved due to the recession...

Word processing is perhaps one of the most essential uses for acomputer on any platform. The Linux OS offers more obscure wordprocessors than other OSes; however, few of these apps offer usersthe staying power of AbiWord ...

Toyota's recent fiascoes with runaway acceleration illuminate the sorry lack of software standards to establish minimum quality levels for technologies crucial to the operation of transportation systems. Toyota has rejected accusations that its software systems are the culprit ...

The Linux OS offers users a variety of applications for taking notesand keeping information accessible in one place. Two popular choices,Tomboy Notes and Xpad, provide quick and easy ways to coral a stampedeof wild notes and information ...

Some system utilities do a variety of things well. They come withtools to give users lots of solutions in one package. Other systemapps like the Atol File Manager perform a dedicated functionflawlessly without adding other specialties. Atol took a while to growon me, but now this app is one of my most-used Linux tools ...

Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System, a new Internet networking architecture that is designed with the huge growthof video transmission, mobile devices and new online services in mind ...