Posted: 27/07/2010

Ipswitch, the publisher of network monitoring and FTP software, have recently release an update to their flagship product, WhatsUp Gold.

Posted: 16/07/2010

ABBYY have just released the latest version of their server based OCR solution, Recognition Server 3.0.

Posted: 10/06/2010

Microsoft has recently released Expression 4, the latest version of their suite of products which cater for designers and developers by providing tools that can create standards-based Websites, Silverlight and WPF content, vector graphics and encode video.

Posted: 01/05/2010

ComponentOne has released the 2010 version of its Studio Enterprise component super-bundle. Heading the new features list are Visual Studio 2010 compatibility and a new AJAX framework with jQuery and DynamicData 4.0 support. Also included are new Winform controls, extra WPF controls ported from Silverlight, Silverlight 4.0 support and migration of ComponentOne’s iPhone web app controls to other leading smartphones.

Posted: 01/05/2010

Adobe has launched its much-anticipated Creative Suite 5 (CS5), a major upgrade to its design tools product range. The suite comes in five editions offering varying combinations of Adobe’s Photoshop (bitmap graphics), InDesign (DTP), Illustrator (vector graphics), Dreamweaver (Web development), Premiere (video editing) and Flash authoring applications, plus supporting products.

Posted: 01/05/2010

Visual Studio 2010 isn’t Microsoft’s only major launch this spring – Office 2010, the latest release of the company’s all-conquering application suite, is already shipping to volume customers and due on retail shelves by early June. Key features include improved collaboration and rich media handling, ribbon toolbars across the whole suite, the first 64-bit Office versions and the release of the much-awaited Office Web applications.

Posted: 01/05/2010

If you’ve checked your copy of Visual Studio 2010 and found Crystal Reports missing, don’t panic as Crystal’s owners, software giant SAP, have removed it from the VS bundle and are offering it as a free download instead. You may have to wait a while for the final version though, and if you develop server-side apps for resale, you may have to buy a new licence.

Posted: 01/05/2010

Delphi to database tools vendor Embarcadero has been freshening up its customer communications channels, as well as adding a new member to its DBArtisan multi-platform database administration family.

Posted: 20/04/2010

Microsoft announced over the weekend, through the official blog of the Microsoft Office product development group , that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 have been released-to-manufacturing (RTM).

Posted: 19/04/2010

Having already announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft went on to announce that Silverlight 4 has released to Web (RTW). Together these technologies simplify the development process, enabling developers to target new platforms, with high-quality applications.

Posted: 12/04/2010

The 12th of April 2010 sees the official launch of Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio 2010 delivers a satisfying combination of software, support and collaborative tools designed to fuel your creative streak and live up to your standards.

Posted: 01/03/2010

The launch date for Microsoft’s much-anticipated Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 has been put back from 22 March to 12 April, after feedback from users of Beta 2 (see HardCopy News, issue 46) indicated concerns about performance and virtual memory usage. As we went to press an extra Release Candidate version had been scheduled for release mid-February.

Posted: 01/02/2010

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best, and if a Windows-based client that lets you plug into a variety of database servers, design queries and reports, save results and update records sounds like a good idea, then Californian vendor Unify has just the thing. Unify Q works with Oracle 10g and 11g and SQL Server 2005 and 2008, as well as the company’s own SQLBase and ODBC sources. Using an Office 2007-style interface, it provides a graphical query builder with table joining hints and single-click report generation, plus a detailed report builder with support for images, graphs and crosstabs.

Posted: 01/02/2010

Massachusetts-based Nuance Communications, developers of Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition packages, has purchased financially troubled UK voice-to-text vendor Spinvox. The British company, which specialises in converting voicemail messages to SMS and email, had gone through a series of refinancings in the previous 18 months and was widely rumoured to be up for sale.

Posted: 01/02/2010

Microsoft has released MapPoint 2010, an updated version of its API-enabled mapping package. New features include better control of map features, a GPS API, drag-and-drop route modification and the re-introduction, by popular demand, of nearly 300 pushpins that were removed in the 2009 version.