WebEx Unveils AIM Pro Business Edition
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WebEx Communications Inc is to announce AIM Pro Business Edition, a paid-for version of the enterprise IM service on top of a free client it launched with AOL Inc in February.
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Macromedia promises to speed development of Internet applications with a new tool for its Flex platform. With Flex, enterprises can add interfaces to strategic applications, including visual
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The tools, part of an upcoming Visual Studio update, are focused on making it easier to create customized Web applications.
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FedEx Kinko's yesterday launched a Web-based tool geared toward mobile professionals and small businesses that allows Microsoft Windows users to connect to FedEx Kinko's printing centers.
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New developer program invites closer integration with search AOL functions.
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Amidst claims that IT shops can now provision BEA WebLogic Servers in mere minutes instead of hours, Veritas today debuted version 4.0 of Opforce Enterprise Edition for Windows, Linux (Red Hat &amp; SUSE), Solaris and AIX.
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Also: Microsoft plans new BizTalk release for this year. [News.com Extra]
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Proxicom, an interactive agency that helps customers make the best use  of the Web, has completed development of the mobile Web site for Mazda  North America Operations (MNAO) (www.mazdausa.com),  which launched earlier this month.
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(InfoWorld) - A Web services partnership will allow U.S. users of Adobe Systems software to send documents via the Internet to FedEx Kinko's centers for printing. The deal was announced Wednesday, the same day that Adobe released its Reader 8.1, which includes a "send to FedEx Kinko's" button on the main toolbar and that same option in the file menu. The free Adobe Reader is available now for download at the company Web site. Acrobat 8.1 will be available later this month and will have the send option in the file menu. "This is a great example of our strategy to provide customers with more points of access," said Richard Maranville, senior vice president and chief information officer of FedEx Kinko's, a division of the FedEx shipping and business services company. The partnership is aimed at making it more convenient for Adobe software users, many of them small and midsize businesses, to get documents printed. "This [option] is going to be a much better workflow for them," he said. FedEx Kinko's launched its Print Online application in October of last year, allowing users to upload files for printing and other services at FedEx Kinko's stores. The partnership integrates that service into Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) software. In terms of numbers and reach, Print Online has 133,000 registered users, while FedEx Kinko's has 1,600 total stores in 11 countries, with 200 opening in the last year and 300 more planned for the next 12 months, Maranville said. Adobe doesn't break down its user numbers by nation, but its Reader software is on more than a half a billion desktops worldwide, according to Michele Turner, Adobe vice president of product management and developer relations. The partnership, which is new, had its genesis in discussions between FedEx Kinko's CEO Kenneth May and Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen. Chizen "had a lot of excitement and a lot of vision about exploring software as a service with FedEx Kinko's," Turner said. After the two CEOs got revved up about the possibilities, their ideas for the first step in the partnership trickled down and about six months ago the software development for the Web services got rolling. "It happened very, very quickly," Maranville said. His team is confident that it is ready to handle the onslaught of PDFs that could come with the new option in Reader and Acrobat. Although the Web services pairing will initially be just for the U.S., expansion could be something the companies will contemplate in the future, he said.
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Business Objects took the wraps Monday off the latest version of its Crystal Reports software and released a new bundle aimed at giving smaller businesses an all-in-one package for creating and delivering analytical reports over the Web.
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A small Oregon-based company on Wednesday released a set of integrated add-on tools for Microsoft&#39;s Outlook e-mail client.
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IBM Wednesday released new SMB tools on its emerging technology Web site to help customers deal with compliance issues as well as enable Business Partners to build solutions on WebSphere Express software.
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The software maker releases an upgraded version of its small-business management applications with new features for coordinating factory work.
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Information Builders unveiled a new version of its WebFocus BI tool set at its annual Summit User Conference held this week in Las Vegas.
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Not even a club with no rules...yet Microsoft may be going gangbusters on Web 2.0-related technology, but the arrival of tools such as Expression and WPF means little unless they are out there being used.â¦
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Microsoft late Tuesday released the first beta of its new Web design tool that will compete with the likes of Adobe Dreamweaver. The program is part of Microsoft's forthcoming Expression lineup, which also includes a graphical design tool and an interface designer.
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The first part of Microsoft's new Expression Studio for Web site development adheres to standards while making CSS and XML drag-and-drop easy.