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From ultra-mobile PCs to high-end systems built for the road warrior, here's a look at what's sleek, light and fast in the notebook PC space.

The phishers and spammers are at it again. And what better vehicle to distribute malware than a highly trafficked, international sporting event like the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games? From the convincing to the inane, here are a few scams to watch for in the next few weeks. Let the games begin.

The Chinese capital of Beijing is humming with excitement over the Games Of The 29th Olympiad. ChannelWeb offers glimpses of how tech giants are showcasing their latest technology advancements on the world's stage.

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ClassApps has a new application server on the market, and the Test Center examines it to see what it offers.

Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking has long been at the leading edge of voice recognition. The Test Center looks at its latest offering to see if Dragon can set the market on fire.

The Test Center examines a new messaging suite targeted at smaller businesses that aims to provide Exchange-like functionality.

OpenOffice.org may not exactly be nipping at the heels of Microsoft Office (at least in terms of market share), but the open-source PC productivity suite is slated to launch its milestone version 3.0 release on Sept. 2.

Microsoft continues its march toward improving the Silverlight platform, with new features in Expression Studio 2.

Sun wants bragging rights over virtualization, saying its software-based approach bypasses the need for support from the CPU.

The Test Center checks out Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold Premium, which the vendor bills as a "cost-effective" network management and monitoring solution, to see if it fits the bill. With that in mind, the Test Center has taken a look at Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold Premium -- which the vendor bills as a "cost-effective" management and monitoring solution -- to see if it fits the bill.

The latest version of Opera's browser has come out in a crowded market, but the Test Center finds it could hit just the right note for some.

Google's Summer of Code is heating up as college students worldwide sign up to show off their programming talent, and earn a stipend.

Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9 have made some great strides in making desktop Linux more user-friendly and technologically advanced. With OpenSUSE 11, Novell can face them feature for feature and carve out a space for itself as well.

Firefox 3.0 boasts a number of nice improvements over previous versions. But how does it stack up against Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Beta?

Lotus Symphony acts much like Microsoft Office, which is good if you are looking for something to replace Office at a fraction of the cost (free!). There are plenty of individual "Word-killers" out there, but the Test Center tested this Office-clone to replace Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Serif has entered the U.S. market with its suite of creativity software. The Test Center takes a look to see how it could compete.

Intuit's SMB accounting software runs fine in Windows, but how does it work in the Linux world?

There are three leading ways to run Vista on a Mac-based computer. The Test Center looks at which is the best.

Songbird 0.5 is the Mozilla counterpart to Apple's iTunes and has recently been released in final version. But before we strike up the Test Center band, what does it mean for VARs?

Ulteo's new beta runs Linux in Windows.

Our Test Center finds SAP applications are left vulnerable if the right architectural designs are not implemented when securing messaging servers.

Xsigo's I/O Virtualization technology is going to simplify virtualized environments.

Privilege Manager 4.0 enables security restrictions to be tailored to an organization's needs without compromising protection.

The Test Center takes a look at Microsoft's latest iteration of EBS -- Part 2 of 2.

The Test Center takes a look at Microsoft's new EBS, focusing in this report on what VARs need to know about its installation.

BlackBerry has been a preferred device in corporate environments due to its network-friendly approach. Test Center looks at the latest BlackBerry Professional software.

Novell, working to expand upon its Linux offerings, is offering JeOS - - or 'just enough operating system.' The Test Center takes a look to see if it truly is enough.

Developers released the newest, long-term support version of Ubuntu Linux Wednesday. The Test Center examines the OS to see if it makes the grade.

Microsoft has joined crowd of SMB VoIP vendors with Response Point.

Oracle 11g went through a round of patches this week, as the database software continues its reach for the enterprise. The Test Center looked at the database itself, to see how it holds up.

Sun this week announced some new features and news for its recently acquired MySQL product, and the Test Center examines it up close to see if it delivers value to solution providers and their customers.

Openbravo is one of the most popular, downloadable open source applications on the Web and it targets the ERP space. The Test Center takes a look to see if it provides value and opportunity for solution providers.

With Fedora 9 expected in May, the Test Center pokes through the Beta to try out some of the new features and improvements.

Getting data out of big iron systems, spreadsheets, e-mails and all kinds of unstructured data sources and custom applications is a labor-intensive process. Many business intelligence tools are extremely difficult to learn, so companies are always looking for easy-to-use solutions.

OpenOffice.org 2.4 is nearing final release, in the midst of significant efforts by Microsoft and Google to bolster their online productivity suites. In the midst of all this competition, the Test Center took a look at the free productivity suite to see how it holds up.

How secured are your .Net applications? The Test Center looks at a product that might make them more secure.

Nuance Communications keeps coming after Adobe with a PDF creation suite. The CMP Channel Test Center looks at the software to see if it's up to the competition.

Microsoft's Vista SP1 makes some strides over the initial version of the OS, but CMP Channel Test Center determines whether it's enough.

For those that have never heard of Apache Software Foundations' Open For Business (OFBiz) Project, pay attention, because there's no stopping how far the open-source back-office application framework can go.

The bigger and more complex the network, the harder it gets to detect unknown and unauthorized devices. The newest release of ipMonitor from SolarWinds simplifies a lot of the work and offers powerful tools that collect more useful data.

After several weeks of testing, CMP Channel Test Center discusses some of the more noteworthy features uncovered during the review process.

Every few days, it seems, another "Office Killer" is turning up in the market to challenge Microsoft by offering productivity applications for free. Some are cross-platform. Many are Web-based. All offer the promise of delivering Microsoft-level functionality for nothing, or next to nothing.

Live Documents, by InstaColl, is one of the latest entries into the Web-based productivity suite space. CMP Channel Test Center takes a look at its beta version to see whether it's up to the challenge in a competitive arena.

Office 2008 for the Mac provides some real changes over previous versions of the productivity suite. CMP Channel Test Center looks at what's good, and what's not so good.

Being green used to be an afterthought—a good idea but not a priority. With soaring energy prices, concerns about global warming and worries of overflowing landfills, green technology is no longer a fad or a luxury. It's practical.

Security threats are getting bigger, the bad guys are getting smarter and security administrators need to be proactive and aggressive.

Last year, Altova changed its application development tools product bundle, which originally was a discount product group that included its XMLSpy software, and rebranded it into a new bundle called MissionKit.

One of the hottest technologies on the market today is application virtualization, but the potential for profit is hard to calculate because the model hasn't quite caught on.

Dell's partner portal, developed with assistance of Salesforce.com, is aimed at putting to rest partner worries about the protection of customer data. Our Test Center checks it out.

The release of Sage Software's MAS 500 version 7.0x midmarket accounting package offers many new features that enable partners to provide sophisticated solutions.

Test Center pits new kid on the block Leopard against the previous new kid, Vista, and sees who fares better. Maybe the comparison should have included XP...

Tableau Software already makes the industry's easiest tool for business intelligence in its Tableau 3.0, and now it's branching into the server market. Tableau Server, which competes with Business Objects, Cognos and MicroStrategy, is set for release in early November.

As the name change implies, Microsoft's Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 offers a lot more than just portal capabilities. MOSS, the successor to Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server, is one of the best platforms for developing .Net applications for the Web. Developing in a MOSS environment is all about speed. The MOSS site template library that's available out of the box also provides extra value to customers that are not eager to implement enterprise solutions with new open-source frameworks such as DotNetNuke.

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