IT pro newsletter 18 March 2008 ( 2 )

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There\'s no better time for your business to go mobile.
This financial year end is just the beginning of great savings - save £100 on the HP Compaq 6715b Business Notebook PC and £10 on the HP Travel Battery.
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REVIEWS

Overland Storage REO 4500c

Verdict: The REO 4500c is a superb choice for D2D data backup and recovery operations. It\'s offered at a very competitive price and the data compression card increases capacity immensely, but Overland could do much better in the performance stakes.

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EXCLUSIVE: Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV

Verdict: Dell’s newly acquired EqualLogic family of appliances offers a quality range of IP SAN features and the PS5000XV has expansion and high performance at the top of the agenda.

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Mobile Computer, the essential guide to technology on the move, is now online at www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk.
Updated daily with news, reviews and practical advice on making the most of your mobile life, Mobile Computer is indispensable for anyone looking to buy or use the latest mobile technology.
Read reviews of HTC’s new Shift UMPC (http://newsletter.itpro.co.uk/c/1bbaJxIpV8OdoGyd) and the O2 Xda Orbit 2 smartphone (http://newsletter.itpro.co.uk/c/1bbaWthe2dC3KAyC), and find out how to protect private data on your laptop with TrueCrypt.
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BLOGS

Read all of the IT PRO blogs at http://newsletter.itpro.co.uk/c/1bbb9oQ29ipU6uz1

Featured Editorial Bloggers
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Davey Winder

The digital universe has been measured
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Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe

If it ain\'t got an API...
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Featured Reader Bloggers
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Dave Adamson
Discrimination? Positively!

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Mark Tennent
Chips with everything

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Featured Industry Bloggers
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UK Internet Governance Forum and Best Practice Challenge
Nominet

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Matrox DualHead2Go connects to your notebook or desktop computer so you can enjoy the feeling of more screen space.
With two displays, keep email on one screen, while you surf the web on the other, or compare two documents side-by-side. See more, do more and be more productive with Matrox DualHead2Go.
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FEATURES

OOXML: Standards for accepting standards
After the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) failed to resolve the differences around Microsoft\'s proposed OOXML standard, what happens next?

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OOXML and the future of open standards
Delegates from the national standards bodies who contribute to the International Standards Organisation (ISO) met last week in Geneva to decide the immediate future of Microsoft\'s OOXML data format, ahead of a vote on 29 March.

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Ubuntu: Bridging the technology gap
In our second interview with Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, we discuss issues of interoperability and the learning curve associated with switching to Linux.

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New Crystal Reports® 2008 delivers advanced functionality to help reduce report proliferation, build increasingly powerful reports, and save time with high-productivity designer features.
Users can find more information in the same report with features such as sorting, reformatting and parameter filtering. Flash and Flex applications can be easily embedded in reports to enable what-if scenario modeling and operational reporting. Smaller designer install files and runtime engine ensure fast deployment to more customer settings than before. Learn more.
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