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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - BEA Systems' acquisition Wednesday of Eclipse-based tools vendor M7 boosts BEA's strategy to blend open source and commercial software options, a company official and an industry analyst said.

Toshiba says it will delay the launch of its next-generation HD DVD players in the U.S. to around February or March 2006. Normally the company had planned to ship its HD DVD players by year-end. "We have been discussing with

Sebastopol, CA--With only a handful of commands, SQL data statements can look deceptively simple. This, combined with the fact that many database developers discover they can get by with learning just the rudiments of the language, explains why so few

Sebastopol, CA--In today's complex networks of routers, switches, and servers, it can be daunting to manage all the devices and make sure they're performing optimally. "For years I worked as a system and network administrator and often faced the question,

Dell introduced several new high-end PCs Wednesday that it plans to market as premium products that come with a higher level of customer service, company executives said at a New York press conference.

HKEPC has compared ATI's RV515 with NVIDIA's NV43.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Times have changed for BEA Systems. Once the brash darling of the Java application server market, the software vendor put forward a more humble face at its annual BEA World show this week in Santa Clara,

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NXPowerLite can reduce the size of your PowerPoint files by over 90%. It's fully customizable, allowing you to choose the ideal balance between compression and quality. This free, fully functional trial version will compress up to 10 presentations.

Add new ringtones, pictures and games to your mobile cell phone with the Polyphonic Wizard. Works with most makes and models of phone, no cables are required - just your PC, your phone and this software!

SecureFX is a highly configurable secure file transfer client for SFTP and FTP with advanced features like site synchronization, a scriptable command-line utility for unattended file transfers, and public-key and Kerberos v5 (GSSAPI) authentication.

Looking to leverage the latest trend toward continuous, disk-based backup, Microsoft unveiled this week its Data Protection Manager and said its solution was available in storage servers and appliances from Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu and others. Microsoft touted a lower-cost backup and

Unfortunately, PowerPoint doesn't have a feature to let you create custom layouts that appear in the Layout taskpane. However, you can work around this limitation by designing your own layout and saving it as a template. Here's how. . .

Company expands its XPS line with desktops, notebooks, and premium customer support.

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