Today, Microsoft published five new plans for Office 365 cloud Service Suite mainly aimed at offering educational institutions to get the hosted Office Services, and licensed version of the Microsoft Office software.

Microsoft announced that the educational version of Office 365 Service which will be available for the K-12, primary and junior education institutions, later this year. This service give the K-12 institutions 5 services options, such as the free plan which is the lowest level and the highest level of 17$ per month. The free plan offers services like Web e-mail and anti-virus, as well as the 17$ plan brings the combination including VoIP and Microsoft licensed Office Professional Plus for staffs and faculty of K-12. Besides, the same plan for students takes 5$ per month.

As a part of the new plan, Microsoft offers the students Lync Online communication platform and SharePoint Online for free, while the faculty and staffs has to pay 10$ per month per user for this plan. Read the rest of this entry »

TomatoCart is an awesome open source ecommerce program developed since 2009. It makes wonders in 2010, receiving a big recognition from authority in open source field and awarded as 2nd Runner up of Open Source Ecommerce Applications in 2010 Open Source Awards.

As an innovative client-oriented shopping cart software, TomatoCart is equipped with modern 2.0 technologies such as rich interface applications, Ajax. Different from other similar applications, the multi-window supported admin panel should be considered as the most highlighted feature of this application. This kind of user-friendly admin panel seems as a savior to people with no IT knowledge and a green hand to ecommerce business.

Other than the RIA based admin panel, there are many other key features worth mentioning in TomatoCart, which you can find in the feature page:
* Separate CRM Email
* SEO
* Detailed web analytics in various aspects
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To take care of a large numbers of documents in a networking system, Document management software (DMS) should think about an essential investment for any kinds of business. This software is allowed to functioning business more effectively, protecting staff time and creating a document flow that works well harmoniously with the machines that you run and network within your business. Several companies are focusing on creating DMS suitable for all sorts of reasons, including the creation of digital archives, remote web use of documents as well as networking support.

DMS has abilities of transforming your paper documents into digital versions are manifold and can include more convenient storage; simpler records; accessibility across your company; the networked sharing of strategy to further improve transmission; and efficiency within your business. So, a scanner together with document management software is required in order to generate an electronic document archive. The archive is created from the scanning of paper documents, along with your DMS then enabling you to store these documents over a hard drive or disk, as you choose.

Different types of software, offering up a multitude of alternatives, however and primarily you may need to discover the goals you actually needs.

You should identify the requirement. These could considered, but unlimited to - numbers of peoples those will use the software, how granular do you want to maintain assigning numbers of document accessibility, and a few of the document management features that you would like to have and what exactly are those that you need. Common features for document management software have the capability to 'tag' several types of documents in logical groupings, determine whether someone can read a document or otherwise and create an approval chain in the event that somebody would like to change the document. Read the rest of this entry »

Since the day taobao.com was born in China, online shopping was widely accepted by the people, and years after years, it’s become more and more popular. PaiPai (powered by Tencent), Joyo Amazon, Jingdong Mall, Vancl, Dangdang…… A series of online shopping websites suddenly popped up from nowhere, B2C or C2C, they finally become a part of people’s lives and hot issues.

Without a doubt, online shopping provides a more convenient way to buy things, a more efficient way to make small business, and because of those B2C online shopping websites, you don’t have to go to local electric appliance store anymore, you can choose Joyo Amazon, they will directly deliver to your home, or wherever you are, credit card is also acceptable; no time for shopping, but you want some gorgeous and beautyful clothes? No more hanging on the street, no more closet watch, just by logging on Vancl.com (B2C) or Taobao.com (C2C, B2C), you have what you want. Utile now, you would finally realise, I mean if you were a online shopping rookie, that express companies played a very important role in the shopping process, sometimes you will pay more attentions on them than merchandise itselves. No, this article is not about online shopping, not even close, it is about the pain in the ass during the process, the express companies. And yes, they definitely make you suffer, sometimes.

Technically speaking, online shopping gave birth to most of express companies in China. Because there were originally just couple of companies on the road, including Federal Express, State-owned China Post’s EMS, and Sagawa Express from Japan, they covered almost all express business before there were online shopping. China’s express business were actually breaking out among people, Taobao’s appearance created a requirement for the express, then dozens of express companies were founded in one night, like Shunfeng, Yuantong, Shentong, Zhongtong, ZJS Express, Yunda, Huitong, Tiantian…… Those companies were made by ordinary people who serve for the ordinary ones, have become the main power of China’s online shopping, which means, you will deal with one of these companies during the process.

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Kingsoft Office 2010 is an office suite that offers multi features. It carries many functions to help you deliver professional documents for your office, school and home needs. Actually, I am using it now as I write this review, it has same look and feel and same document formats as Microsoft Office, as an original Microsoft Office user, I am strongly surprised that many features work exactly the same way as Microsoft Office, it requires no re-training!

Kingsoft Office supports for all Microsoft Office document formats, even the latest Microsoft Office 2007/2010 formats (.DOCX, .XLSX, and .PPTX), allows you to maintain compatibility and save a fortune. Plus it can also export to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) directly from any application. Convert documents, spreadsheets and presentations into this widely accepted format for quick and easy online distribution, and the Google Search Toolbar provides one-click Internet search capabilities directly within each application.

Kingsoft Office provides three essential and full featured office applications, including Kingsoft Writer, Kingsoft Spreadsheets and Kingsoft Presentation are designed with the familiar Microsoft Office 2003 user interface and functionality.

Kingsoft Writer 2010

Kingsoft Writer offers multi-features for office users and it has the exactly same look and feel as Microsoft word. It carries a complete menu in context to help you create business and professional documents. With the standout strong compatibility, you are able to open, view and edit your documents with various file formats including the latest Microsoft Office 2010 file formats (.DOCX, .PPTX, .XLSX).

You will find Kingsoft Writer a convenient tool to share your documents with others who are using different office productivity software. Besides, other features of Kingsoft Writer may interest you: a new core of engine is incorporated so as to help you to make your document more flexible, efficient and compatible; you can use multiple-language support to edit and display your documents; a cross-references function and a number of text effects are also installed for you, you are able to shadow, outline, emboss, engrave …… It's very easy for you to handle in the operation of the "Column Drag" and "prompting in a dashed line", optimized efficiency of copying and pasting a table, copying and filing, data dragging and adding more columns. Read the rest of this entry »

Angela Adams is a computer programmer who lives in Toronto Canada. Perhaps she is one of the best computer programmers in the world. She was doing a good outsourcing business from a small office in her home when she discovered the forex market. She decided to create the best forex robot.

Pips Geek is the result of six years of hard work by Angela. If you are new to the world of forex trading, then you must know this fact that right now forex trading is the best home based business. Forex Trading is being called the Recession Proof Business of the 21st Century. You just need a computer and a good internet connection to trade forex right from the comfort of your home.

A Forex Trading Robot makes it even easier. You don't need to sit in front of your computer monitoring the forex market. Forex Robot is a software that does all the monitoring and trading for you. It opens a trade when the market conditions are right and closes it when the profit target has been met. Forex Trading can never become easier than this.

Let's discuss what makes the Pips Geek so special. This forex software has the potential of growing your capital by 25% each month. Imagine if you can grow you capital by 25% monthly, how much the return can be annually. No mutual fund or money market fund is willing to give you this much high rate of return. The performance of Pips Geek is supported by both back and forward tests as well as live trading results.

You have got 60 days no questions asked money back guarantee on the Pips Geek Software. What this means is that you can download the Pips Geek, install it on your demo account and test it for full two months to see how much it makes in a month.

Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison issued a statement Wednesday, claimed that he has proof that HP’s new CEO, Leo Apotheker, oversaw a a corporate-espionage scheme to steal Oracle’s software during his previous role as CEO of German software giant SAP.

A trial is scheduled to begin Monday in Oakland, Calif, the date Apotheker is scheduled to start work.

“Leo knew all about the stealing,” Ellison said, Apotheker is “on the run” to avoid testifying at next week’s trial.

Oracle competes directly with SAP in the market for corporate-software applications. A key part of each companies’ business are the services provided for those applications, fee charging.

SAP has acknowledged that a subsidiary stole Oracle customer-support materials. But SAP and HP emphasize that the subsidiary was shut down before Apotheker became SAP’s CEO in June 2009.

“Oracle has been litigating this case for years and has never offered any evidence that Mr. Apotheker was involved”, HP returned stroke to Oracle,“Given Leo’s limited knowledge of and role in the matter, Oracle’s last-minute effort to require him to appear live at trial is no more than an effort to harass him and interfere with his duties and responsibilities as H-P’s CEO.”

Microsoft on Wednesday is formally launching Office 2010, and the SharePoint 2010 collaborative platform to its corporate customers. In addition, Microsoft has also added a free Internet version of the apps that Microsoft is calling Office Web. And it is introducing mobile access to the new suite of Microsoft Office products. Microsoft hasn't guaranteed a timetable for the consumer versions of the Web Apps, it says it expects them to arrive at the same time as the desktop suite.

Microsoft is also bringing the enhanced software suite to mobile phones. For its own, Windows Mobile phones, Microsoft has developed a mobile application, which can be downloaded onto any Windows Mobile 6.5 starting Wednesday. Another version of the app will be available for Windows Phone 7 when that is available later this year. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is compatible with all other major office suites and is free to download, use, and distribute. The 3.2.1 RC1 Version was Released now. Not only it is more faster start up times than before. But also it has proprietary file support and autocorrect word completion.

New Features In This Version:
-General
Support for Postscript based OpenType fonts
-Writer
Mediawiki support moved to an Extension
-Calc
Cell borders now support multiple selection
Better handling of merged cells
Complex copy and paste
-Draw
Comments functionality improved
Page Count added to Draw
-Impress
Comments functionality improved
Page Count added to Impress

Microsoft has officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010.

According to Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog,Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are on schedule and will release to manufacturing (RTM) in April 2010.

Jevon Fark of Microsoft Office marketing, confirmed that Microsoft is on target for an Office 2010 RTM next month. "We're excited to confirm that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are on schedule and will release to manufacturing (RTM) next month."

Besides, starting today, consumers who purchase and activate Office 2007 will be able to download Office 2010 at no additional cost when it becomes available in June 2010.

All you need to be eligible for this program – Office 2010 Technology Guarantee – is the following:
* Purchase Office 2007, or a new PC with Office 2007, and activate it between March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010.
* Have, or create a Windows Live ID.
* Redeem your Tech Guarantee before October 31, 2010 by visiting www.office.com/techg.

In addition, Office 2010 RTM now is available for download by Technet, MSDN subscribers. While you won't be seeing it on retail shelves just yet, Microsoft has flicked the Office 2010 switch on MSDN and Technet. Yesterday, the beta version was finally replaced with the RTM and both 32 and 64-bit downloads are now available.

If you're a subscriber, head on over to your downloads page and grab the final builds!