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Article | 8/09/2009 5 free project management applications you must try

Project management applications are usually centered around Gantt charts, where each step in a project is represented as a bar in the chart. These vis...

Article | 20/11/2008 Free tools for teleconferencing with a 'virtual presence'

Using teleconferencing technology has lately become an obvious and financially practical choice to offset rising business travel expenses. Yet sometim...

Article | 9/09/2008 Running on AIR: Great office apps you can get now

The release of Adobe's AIR runtime platform was supposed to inspire the development of sophisticated business applications to take advantage of its me...

Article | 15/05/2008 Six factors that will decide the fate of Silverlight

Since the public release of its earliest version last year, Silverlight has been touted as Microsoft's Flash killer. This relatively new Web developme...

Article | 20/03/2008 Why major mobile handset makers are riding with LiMo

The LiMo Foundation was formed on January 2007 as a consortium of mobile industry companies joining together to create for handsets an open and standa...

Article | 7/02/2008 Born from Firefox

They are four applications designed to serve different purposes: A web browser, a music player and organizer, another that does the same for video, an...

Article | 4/02/2008 Big mods for the small Eee PC

During the 2007 holiday season, there was another small, white and cheap tech device that became a hard-to-find bestseller: the ultra-portable Eee PC ...

Article | 3/11/2007 A second life for 'Second Life' with open source?

Until recently, the business news media fawned over the Second Life online virtual world. Stories fixated on Second Life "residents" who got rich brok...

Article | 17/10/2007 Five tips for making a popular Facebook app

Ever since the social networking site of Facebook opened itself up to outside development, there has been a flurry of Facebook applications created by...