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) Intuit Microsoft War: Microsoft Loses Again
Microsoft created it several years after buying heavyweight accounting software producers Great Plains and Solomon. Counting eary losses on these products, this new Intuit Microsoft War investment was about $2 billion. Microsoft originally referred to Microsoft Office Accounting as a Microsoft Intuit War "QuickBooks killer." However, sales were so bad that the $150 price soon went from $150 to $50 and then became a free download, so Microsoft Loses Again. They actually never even made it past number two Peachtree. Many thought the product manager would be the next Microsoft CEO, but he left soon after the new Microsoft Intuit War disaster became an apparent and Microsoft loses again.
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) In Search of Free, Open Source Apps
The categories include accounting software, content management systems, CRM, desktop environments, e-mail clients, video encoding tools, and much more. As a condensed way to evaluate well-known open source applications, it works nicely.I've written before several times about PortableApps.com. For Windows users, it's a very good way to get bushels of open source applications in a single download. For Mac users, Mac Libre is an equivalent site that also offers lots of good applications in one download. Here again, neither of these sites is as exhaustive as the database-driven sites, but they do allow you to easily and quickly evaluate individual applications that could make a difference for you.
OpenDesktop.org is a relatively new site that houses a lot of applications available for free. More>>
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) Local net crime rises
"In Australia we hosted the sixth highest percentage of underground economy servers, accounting for 4 per cent of the total identified globally," Mr Scroggie said."Some of the largest underground activity in the IRC networks was observed on servers in Australia, while the 14th longest active underground server had a local address."
On software piracy, Symantec found that Australia was ranked 10th in the number of illegal downloads of computer games and specialist multimedia and business applications by country (excluding music and video file piracy).
The nation also ranked 10th in the number of users making software files available for illegal copying.
Symantec's figures are far higher than the latest Australian Institute of Criminology Underground Markets in Stolen Digital Information Review, in May 2007, in which Australia was not in the top 10. More>>
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) Review: iPhone OS 2.2 Software
Perhaps they'll blame their subscription accounting model again? iSigh.Remarkable also by it's absence — again — is the much ballyhooed Push Notification Service (announced during WWDC 2008), intended to provide the semblance of multi-tasking to 3rd party apps by sending badges, sounds, and pop-ups through a central Apple server to alert users of, for example, new IMs or tweets. (Should we even bother to mention the continued, and continually unexplained, absence of cut and paste, MMS, unified inbox, video recording, etc.)
Note: We updated just fine using iTunes 8.0.1, but you may want to consider grabbing yesterday's 8.0.2 release first.
But enough dwelling on the didn't gets. Read on after the jump for the we gots!
iPhone OS 2.2 Release NotesApple gets (can we still call it uncharacteristically?) chatty with the details:
This update contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
Enhancements to Maps Google Street View public transit and walking directions display address of dropped pins share location via email Enhancements to Mail resolved isolated issues with schedule fetching of email improved formatting of wide HTML email Improved stability and performance of Safari Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular network) Decrease in call set-up failures and call drops Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messages Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard SettingsProducts compatible with this software update:
iPhone iPhone 3G The Fixes Are InMuch like 2.1, and as can easily be seen by the list above, 2.2 is much ado about fixes. More>>
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) Online accounting - what accountants say
While this is welcome news at any time (and even more so in the current business climate), online accounting is not only about less costly software. It also promises increases in operational efficiency for both companies and accountants.In this report, 6 practices of varying size share their experiences of online accounting. They reveal the impact it has made on their jobs, clients and businesses.
Click here to download the report now.
About e-conomice-conomic is an Internet-based and innovative accounting system that exploits the opportunities of the Internet for flexible, user-friendly and individual solutions.
The system fulfils both the individual and the general requirements for a company's accounting and financial management � while at the same time making optimum use of the most recent technological possibilities. More>>