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As if they needed more stress, organizations are facing evolving and increasingly stringent compliance regulations from the Payment Card Industry, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and others. Here are a few security compliance products that can make the audit process less excruciating.

Here are 10 of the distributor's hottest new offerings winning over solution providers.

New smartphones from Sony, Motorola and the first-ever Twitter-only mobile device -- the TwitterPeek -- headline a busy week for handset makers as the holiday shopping season heats up.

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We like the code name "Karmic Koala" but how does Ubuntu 9.10 measure up to Windows 7?

Micosoft Office Web Apps inevitably will be compared to Google Docs. The CRN Test Center finds some advantages and disadvantages in choosing Office Web Apps over Google Docs.

Google wants you to put up your own Wiki, but there's potential for abuse. The CRN Test Center takes a look.

IBM Lotus has worked to combine social networking, collaboration and Web conferencing into a single hosted application. The CRN Test Center takes a look.

A ribbon-like toolbar is here for IE and Firefox.

The CRN Test Center shows how to increase the performance and efficiency of Windows 7.

We risked being maligned for benchmarking an alpha release of Firefox 3.6, but we found results to be impressive.

CRN Test Center reviewers ran into a big problem trying to run Windows XP Mode and Virtual PC.

Microsoft shines when it sticks to what it knows best: operating systems. Windows Server 2008 R2 is its best server OS to date.

Mozilla addresses and corrects important issues with the Firefox 3.5.1 update.

Microsoft is taking on the competition by adding a lot of collaboration and cloud-based features to Office 2010. There is also significant reworking of the most widely used office productivity suite in the world.

There are a lot of reasons why users are swayed to choose one browser over another. Here's our breakdown of differentiators.

Firefox 3.5's enhancements gives it far superior performance over previous releases and shames IE 8's benchmark test results.

With the release of iPhone OS 3.0, Apple adds new features and enhancements to the widely popular smartphone.

Google Apps Sync for Outlook may be Google's boldest challange to Microsoft yet. Plus, it works really well.

Microsoft takes another shot at the search engine with Bing.

Taking Gmail's Message Translation for a spin.

The Test Center takes a hands-on look at Windows 7 RC and Virtual XP.

The CRN Test Center reviews Ubuntu 9.04, hailed by some for its new features and its ease of data center integration.

Say what you will about Vista, Microsoft has really pulled out all the stops with brand-new beta Exchange 2010. Here's a first look.

Get from Windows to Linux in a flash. The Test Center reveals its favorite USB drive bootable Linux operating systems.

With AutoCAD 2010, it's clear that Autodesk is continuing to give its users what they want (or need).

Good OS is barely two-years-old, but its gOS operating system appears to have quickly caught up to the market, according to a Test Center review.

Based on the Anoto platform, Adapx's Capturx brings handwriting into the digital arena.

The paperless office is one of those great white whales of IT. You could spend a whole career seeking it out, only to waste time, lose sleep and face disappointment. But that doesn't mean technology providers have stopped trying to move the ball closer to the goal line, and with Acrobat 9 Pro, Adobe Systems Inc. is getting well within scoring position.

StarOffice 9's final release is the strongest alternative to Microsoft Office Professional yet.

Intuit Inc.'s QuickBase, a Web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) suite, is in a market competing with better-known CRM providers like Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash., and Salesforce.com Inc., San Francisco. But the Scotts Valley, Calif.-based software vendor may not have been as aggressive in pitching its offering—inasmuch as Intuit's more traditional personal and business finance applications continue to be its much better-known flagships.

The Test Center used a variety of standard performance and security benchmarking tools to look at Windows 7 pre-beta.

Canonical released Ubuntu 8.10 Thursday, and a look at the Linux OS shows it might be starting to prove a smarter choice than Vista in a growing number of scenarios.

Firefox 3.1 trashes IE 7 in performance, and even outshines Firefox 3.0.

As Opera releases version 9.60 to compete with Google's Chrome, we compare the browsers.

Test Center tries setting up a blog using popular platform Movable Type as a virtual appliance.

Last time we reviewed ClassApps' SelectSurvey, a .Net version was in its infancy, the server application was still based on ASP and the company only had one other server product. For the past four years, ClassApps has spawned three server products out of specific business functionality needed in SelectSurvey.

The Test Center takes a look at LowBrowse, a FireFox addon that helps the visually impaired surf the Web.

Gaviri Technologies is reinventing desktop searching with Universal SearchOS.

The latest version of Avantstar's file viewer allows access to over 300 file types and a whole lot more.

Some of the biggest names in technology have begun building bridges between the potential of the social Web and the needs of real business. The Test Center investigates.

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.

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