CA begins simplification of product names
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CAÂ has unveiled plans to simplify the naming of its entire software range over the next 12 to 18 months to better brand the products and more clearly indicate their function.
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The company is changing. Does c-h-a-n-g-e spell opportunity?
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Feature Consolidation runs and runs
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Macromedia has announced a special version of its Contribute website editing application designed to simplify the creation and customisation of eBay Stores.
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Java software provider releases a product designed to simplify the task of sending back-office information to mobile devices.
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BACS, the UK clearing house and operator of the direct debit system, will today announce it is changing its name to Voca and planning to muscle in on the continental European market for automated payments.
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Will the beverage's new name increase its value to calorie counters?
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Centric CRM said Wednesday it has changed its name to Concursive Corp., a move that coincides with the 5.0 release of its product.The name change was necessary to better reflect the widening scope of the Norfolk, Virginia, company&#39;s open-source software, according to Michael Harvey, executive vice president. &quot;We are providing a much broader application than is just captured by the term CRM,&quot; he said.The software, now dubbed ConcourseSuite 5.0, includes Web site creation and deployment tools, CRM functionality, collaboration-oriented features and content management. It is available in both hosted and on-premises form.Customers can also extend the core platform by plugging in portlet applications. The product comes with a number of prebuilt portlets, including ones for analytics and charting, according to the company.&quot;It would not be inconceivable for someone to turn every part of the experience we provide off and have everything be done through these portlets,&quot; Harvey said.The company will continue to court primarily midsized companies, not large enterprises. &quot;We&#39;re certainly not going to turn down any Fortune 500 companies.... But quite often, those companies will have an entrenched system, so the sale becomes more complicated,&quot; Harvey said.Sheryl Kingstone, an analyst with Yankee Group, said that as Centric CRM, the firm&#39;s profile was fairly low, &quot;So if you&#39;re going to change your name, now is the time to do it.&quot;Reasons beyond new product features influenced the company&#39;s decision, according to 451 Group analyst China Martens: &quot;What they were telling me is they were running into all the other &#39;centrics&#39; around.&quot; Those include Centric Software, which makes applications for product and project management.Martens said CRM vendors are trying to differentiate their offerings from that of competitors. &quot;Theirs is going to be collaboration and Web 2.0.... It makes sense. It&#39;s one of those areas right next to CRM,&quot; she said.But Martens said Concursive&#39;s platform isn&#39;t quite baked. &quot;I think we&#39;ll get a better sense next year in [version] 6, when everything&#39;s fully incorporated,&quot; she said.Maintenance fees for ConcourseSuite Enterprise Edition start at $250 per seat per year.
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If you&#39;ve been using the new Windows Media Player 10 for Windows XP, you may have noticed that Microsoft shifted from some of the more formal language that it used in Windows Media Player 9 -- &quot;Copy from CD&quot; and &quot;Copy to CD&quot; -- to the more casual terms
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Few precise details of the product are known although the company has been releasing tidbits of information.
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There are some PHP developers out there that see PHP as a sort of constant "work in progress" with issues all around - confusing function names, non-intuitive features, and more. So, a group has been formed to help clean things up a bit - the ogoproject.   The ogo project aims to clean up PHP, starting with fixing the inconsistent (and difficult to remember) function names. PHP needs clear naming conventions, and it needs to stick to them. We will offer a temporary fork until function name changes are agreed on, and sensible backwards and forwards compatibility is in place. Then we can get our changes merged into the main branch.   They've already posted some suggestions for a few things, including conventions they're looking to follow and a list of new function names changed according to these new conventions. There's also a downloads and forum section that will soon have content.   If you're interested in getting involved, stop by the #ogoproject channel on the Freenode IRC network and see what's going on.
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Microsoft plans to change the "Home" and "Pro" edition names with the next release of Windows, known as Longhorn. It may also ship a single product that combines the features in the Media Center and Tablet PC editions.
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The new instructions could simplify the way that developers code the iterative calculations used to shade graphics, render photos or add spatial effects to audio.
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STAMFORD, Conn. --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 21, 2004 -- Please replace the release due to multiple revisions with the following corrected version.
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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In many cases, product specifications may mean something different from what they appear to, or mean nothing at all.
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Officials at Computer Associates (Quote, Chart) announced the availability of an application aimed at simplifying and strengthening Wi-Fi networks.