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McAfee Inc. Named SSPA Star Awards Finalist for Best Knowledge Management Practices

mary | 16 May, 2007 08:49

Innovative Customer Support Solutions Promote Culture of Knowledge Sharing and Improved Customer Experiences Online

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ McAfee Inc. today announced that the McAfee technical support organization was selected as a finalist in the 2007 Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA) STAR Awards in the "Best Knowledge Management Practices" category. Winners will be announced at the SSPA Conference on May 8 in San Diego.

The SSPA STAR Award is one of the highest honors in the service and support industry, recognizing technology companies that display exceptional leadership, innovation and commitment in both service excellence and in developing and implementing best practices.

"Our website is accessed by over two million unique visitors a month and houses over 10,000 knowledge base articles. This institutional expertise empowers our customers to manage risk," said Barry McPherson, senior vice president, worldwide services and support at McAfee. "McAfee is honored to have our approach validated by being named a finalist for the STAR Awards. By managing and documenting our knowledge online, we are helping our customers maintain seamless access to information and have as one aspect of an enhanced online experience."

The McAfee technical support organization helps to ensure that customers are protected from the constant threat of security attacks. This level of protection requires McAfee to continually implement new tools to better support its customers. McAfee offers mission critical support by ensuring availability, responsiveness, pro-activity, and quick resolution. Customers receive unlimited access to McAfee's global support Web site, which includes remediation tools and an extensive Knowledge Base. Additionally, customers can call one of McAfee's highly skilled and certified security specialists, who possess the experience and resources to meet customers' security needs 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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corefx Three Level given five stars by Children's Technology Review

mary | 15 May, 2007 08:53

corefx Three Level, 5.0 stars, Core Learning Ltd., ages 5-up.

We don't throw around five star ratings. In order to get one, a title needs to be the best in it's category, have quality content, and empower a young mind. That's why we were so thrilled to find corefx Three Level.

Once you start doodling with this simple, powerful graphics program, you simply can't stop. Somebody finally listened to the masses and made a reasonably priced graphics program that any child can be successful with. Take the drawing palate - you get 12 types of art tools, in any color or tip size. You can scribble with wax crayons - the harder you press, the darker the line - or let the watercolors bleed into a silky parchment. Every feature on our creativity wish list was covered: unlimited levels of undo (or redo, if you want to put your mistake back ), a nice collection of commercial free, resizable clip art, and the ability to easily add text to your work. The standard pull-down menus are familiar, often duplicating the icon menus, increasing your chances of making things work.

If you have children (or say, work with a room full of wriggling Kindergartners), you'll appreciate the ability to simplify the menus, with a beginners level. Advanced users will find features even Photoshop doesn't even have... corefx Visual Effectslike a tutorial on how to make animated graphics, and a quick redraw feature that can fast-forward through your project, one stroke at a time. Like a digital Swiss army knife, the program successfully opened a variety of file formats, so you can pull in a JPG straight out of your digital camera, add some text, and create a cover for your family DVD. Trial versions, that will work for 3 days and have print/save features disabled, can be downloaded at a variety of shareware sites. The program runs on newer Windows computers - there is no Mac version. All in all, this is the best consumer level drawing program on the market, for both children and adults.

For a full list of Core Learning products, visit our website.

NEW! Core Learning Brain Builder Pro now available!

Wolfram Reinvents Mathematica

mary | 14 May, 2007 09:52

A Dramatic New Product Nearly 20 Years after the Original

May 1, 2007--For the second time in under 20 years, Wolfram Research is bringing a revolution to computing. The first was Mathematica 1.0 in 1988. Today's is Mathematica 6--in many respects a completely new product, one with several hundred additional groundbreaking technologies developed over more than a decade at Wolfram Research.

"In compatibility terms, Mathematica 6 is an upgrade. In capability terms, this is a major new product," said Stephen Wolfram, CEO of Wolfram Research. "Mathematica's been reinvented."

Mathematica 6 takes technical computing to a new level: more tightly bound, more natural, and more automated, applicable to a far wider range of areas than ever before. Central to this achievement is "instant interactivity"--taking models, simulations, computations, or just about any concepts and turning them into fully interactive applications, sometimes within seconds. This new way of working drastically improves innovation--the process of transforming ideas into highly optimized results. (More)

CyberEd Science Award Winning Software Continues A Tradition of Excellence

mary | 11 May, 2007 08:43

CyberEd is a leading provider of award-winning science software for middle, high school and college instruction in the areas of biology, life science, chemistry, earth and space science, physical science and physics. CyberEd's products are used by thousands of schools, colleges, and universities worldwide.

Since 1998, CyberEd Science programs have received numerous awards for its innovative products, including a number of prestigious AEP Distinguished Achievement Awards, CODiE Awards, Technology & Learning Awards of Excellence, BESSIE and EDDIE Awards. This is a list of 2007 honors:

CODiE Award Finalist , Best Science Instruction Solution, Software & Information Industry Association.
CyberEd PLATO Physical Science
CyberEd PLATO Life Science
CyberEd PLATO Earth and Space Science

SYSTAT SigmaPlot 10 Free Live Webinar May 17! Register Now!

mary | 10 May, 2007 11:37

SYSTAT Software Incorporated invites you to join them for “Exploring the new features of SigmaPlot 10” a free live webinar on Thursday, May 17, 2007. These webinars will be held at three different times thoughout the day.

SigmaPlot 10 is the most comprehensive graphing and analytical package that enables you to produce publication quality graphs that effectively communicate the most important elements of your research to the scientific community.

Through product demonstrations you will learn about:

The new features and graphing capabilities of SigmaPlot 10
Enhancing the capabilities of SigmaPlot 10 by creating customized macros
Expanding the scope of SigmaPlot 10 by using the add on modules for Electrophysiology, Enzyme Kinetics and Ligand binding
The excellent publication features of SigmaPlot 10

A Q&A session will follow the presentation and demos.

To register for the May 17th webinars, please visit http://www.systat.com/webinars

Systat Software Incorporated academic pricing and SYSTAT Software Incorporated nonprofit pricing are available from CCV Software.

Mac Life Honors Corel Painter X with Editors' Choice Award

mary | 09 May, 2007 08:54

Ottawa, Canada - May 01, 2007

Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE) today announced that Corel Painter X has been recognized with another Editors' Choice Award from Mac|Life magazine (www.maclife.com). Mac|Life also gives the software its "Great" rating and states, "...Painter is the longtime king of the digital painting kingdom."

"Corel is honored that Mac|Life magazine has once again recognized Corel Painter X as the pre-eminent natural painting software," says Rick Champagne, Product Manager for Corel Painter. "Corel Painter X is the only professional application that was built from the ground up as a digital art studio. Leveraging the power of the new Intel Macs, Corel Painter X offers new features including the RealBristle painting system, improved Photo-Painting Palettes, and the Divine Proportion tool that enable artists and photographers to take their creative expression to new levels!"

Mac Life product reviewer David Biedny praises Corel Painter X stating, "Some newly added tricks, along with the speed enhancements, help this X mark its spot as a must-have digital artistry tool."

Delivering the next-generation art studio, Corel Painter X blurs the line between traditional and digital art like never before. Working closely with professionals including entertainment artists, commercial designers and photographers, the Corel Painter team explored the relationship between the artist's hand and the canvas. As a result, Corel Painter X sets the standard with the introduction of unparalleled performance, new composition tools and the revolutionary RealBristle™ Painting System that provides an organic painting and illustration experience – right down to the individual bristles on the brush.

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Acrobat Connects Users in a Flash

mary | 08 May, 2007 08:39

4/27/2007

While Adobe's recent Creative Suite 3 release has been making headlines, intranet professionals should instead take note of the commercial rollout of two versions of Adobe Acrobat Connect, a new Web conferencing tool that uses the power of Adobe Flash to provide instant connections.

Actually, Adobe Acrobat Connect isn't a completely new product. The higher-end version, Acrobat Connect Professional, is a continuation of Macromedia Breeze, which Adobe acquired along with the rest of the company. The less expensive Adobe Acrobat Connect is a simplified version for smaller staffs.

Adobe Acrobat Connect goal is to be completely versatile in both installation and implementation. The software is available in both installed and hosted configurations, and the conferencing software runs on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris computers. It even runs on Flash-based phones found in Japan and Europe.

The software contains four areas -- training, presenting, meeting, and events -- that should cover all of an organization's conferencing needs. The application can run presentations created with Presenter, Adobe Captivate 2Adobe Flash.

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Knowledge Adventure Teacher of the Year Honored

mary | 07 May, 2007 10:45

Brooklyn, NY – Apr. 11, 2007 – An elementary school computer teacher who uses project-based learning to integrate technology into multiple curriculum areas is the Knowledge Adventure Teacher of the Year. Katarina Kupfer of P.S. 164 Caesar Rodney in Brooklyn, N.Y. was selected from a nationwide pool of candidates in the culmination of Knowledge Adventure's Teacher Awards Program.

Representatives from Knowledge Adventure joined students and teachers today at P.S. 164 to honor Kupfer who has won her school a computer lab, valued at $10,000, consisting of eight Dell computers equipped with all of Knowledge Adventure School’s software, as well as a full day of training for school staff. “Mrs. Kupfer is a phenomenal computer teacher. Her students are always engaged with creative projects and educational research. I am so proud that she has earned this national award. It is definitely well deserved,” said Danielle Bennett, the school’s assistant principal.

The rest of the school staff echoes Bennett’s sentiment. "Kathy Kupfer is a competent and dedicated teacher. Her knowledge of technology is an asset to the students, staff, and parents of P.S. 164," said Joann Altieri, the school secretary. (More)

Markzware FlightCheck Version 6 Universal Binary Platform Released!

mary | 04 May, 2007 10:10

Markzware, inventor of preflight, and data conversion software leader, announces the major release of FlightCheck 6 univeral binary platform that includes QuarkXPress 7 and Adobe InDesign CS3 support. FlightCheck 6 is the patented, pre-eminent quality control program for the print and publishing industries that, since 1995, has contributed significantly to the verification of properly prepared digital content.

Markzware's CEO, Patrick Marchese discussed FlightCheck's contribution to the industry: "Print and publishing technologies are constantly advancing, and businesses need a dependable, quality- control preflight solution that takes advantage of those improvements. For instance, new features within the recent releases of QuarkXPress 7 and Adobe InDesign CS3, part of the Adobe CS3 package provide designers added convenience. However, new features can open the door to more errors. Printers and publishers are pressured to provide faster turn-around and, at the same time control expenses in order to maximize already low margins. FlightCheck 6 delivers on Markzware's promise to provide our customers with top-flight preflighting to compete and prosper in today’s fast-paced environment. Professionals that are looking to streamline their digital print output and eliminate costly re-runs should consider FlightCheck 6 as their quality-control solution."

Alien Skin Photoshop plug-ins are now Universal applications!

mary | 03 May, 2007 08:51

All Alien Skin Photoshop plug-ins are now Universal applications. These updates are compatible with Photoshop CS3 and they provide a significant performance increase on Intel-based Macs.

Updates cost $19.99 each for up to three; additional titles beyond three are free of charge (maximum cost $59.97). Updates are available only through the Alien Skin Universal store, and free online delivery is available. Have your registration codes handy and visit the Universal store to order your updates now.

If you bought an Alien Skin plug-in this year:
Registered users are eligible for free updates to any Alien Skin plug-ins purchased on or after January 1, 2007. You will need to have registered manually or provide proof of purchase. Visit the Alien Skin Universal store for complete information.

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