Stories by Dennis O'Reilly

Article | 26/09/2007 Search evolution: New ways to get better results
If you're ready for a new take on Web searching, a bunch of beta services are set to offer novel ways to search and to organize your results. The beta...
Article | 25/09/2007 GPS device covers high-end features
Go down the roster of top-of-the-line GPS features, and the TomTom Go 720 has them all covered: text-to-speech pronunciation of street names; the abil...
Article | 4/01/2007 Microsoft Office 2007 (Standard Edition)
Anyone who has followed Microsoft Office through its succession of lacklustre upgrades in recent years would be excused for yawning at the prospect of...
Article | 29/12/2006 Beyond Search: Google Specialty Services
Even people who have never opened a Web browser in their life know about Google -- but the undisputed king of search is about much more than just keyw...
Article | 5/12/2006 Mapping software loses its way
You can save a couple hundred bucks by opting for one of the two most popular GPS-enabled mapping programs instead of a stand-alone GPS device, but yo...
Article | 9/11/2006 Live Search mapped results get 3D views
My first tour of Virtual Earth 3D in the Windows Live Search beta left me impressed by its bird's-eye view and by the easy access to information about...
Article | 19/10/2006 New toolbar for Microsoft's Live services
Every time you turn around, Microsoft seems to be releasing--or rechristening--a Web service with the Windows Live moniker. To date, seeing how all of...
Article | 26/09/2006 Social atlas sites let you map your life
No plain-vanilla mapping site knows your favorite haunts as well as you do. New online services tap that information by enabling you to share your kno...
Article | 21/09/2006 Web spreadsheets nearing prime time
Let's face it -- Microsoft Excel is way more spreadsheet application than most of us will ever need. That is part of the appeal of a new breed of Web-...
Article | 20/09/2006 Hands on: Microsoft's video-sharing service
Videographers now have a new Web outlet for their mini-masterpieces with the Tuesday introduction of the beta version of Microsoft's Soapbox on MSN Vi...
Article | 20/04/2006 SeaMonkey 1.0.1
Despite SeaMonkey's rough edges, its bundling of a browser, an e-mail utility, and an HTML editor in one package is appealing.
Article | 26/03/2006 Google Toolbar 4 Beta
Lately it seems as if everybody and their second cousin have attempted to follow Google's example by cobbling together a browser toolbar. Most of thes...
Article | 3/03/2006 ICANN domain-name agreement windfall for Verisign
After several years of squabbling, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last night agreed to let VeriSign manage the valuab...
Article | 17/02/2006 Microsoft Works Suite 2006
We checked out a shipping version of Microsoft's home-user-centric Works Suite 2006. For $169.95 it includes the same four apps as the existing $100 W...
Article | 7/09/2005 Netscape 8: Two-headed monster browser
The programmers at Netscape have made a two-headed monster of a browser in the new Netscape 8, which lets you view Web pages as if you were running Mo...

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