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The article discusses the phenomenon involving PC Magazine in the personal computing magazine industry. The first issue of PC Magazine was dated February/March 1982--a bimonthly that went monthly in September 1982. Even at the higher frequency, PC Magazine was big, stuffed with advertisements and editorial coverage. It supported and explained the growth of personal computing, and personal computing supported the magazine in return. A dramatic redesign in 2006 seemed to turn PC Magazine into another magazine for people with short attention spans. There seems to be a lot less text on those pages, with bigger photographs, lots more white space, fewer tables and hand-written annotations taking up space previously devoted to text and tables.

This section offers news briefs on the computer industry. Yahoo! released a statement saying it rejected Microsoft's $40 billion-plus offer. Siperian Inc. announced that it closed an oversubscribed $25 million Series E financing. Tessera Technologies, Inc. agreed to acquire FotoNation Inc., a provider of embedded imaging solutions for digital camera and mobile phone applications.

The article presents news briefs related to the computer industry in the U.S. as of March 2006. A group of publishers, librarians and learned societies launched the Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe technology. SirsiDynix released the newest version of its Unicorn library management system. Unicorn GL3.I. SirsiDynix announced that it has established the Building Better Communities Awards.

The article presents news briefs related to the computer industries from around the world as of April 2006. Solinet is offering a series of disaster preparedness classes in each of the 10 states that constitute its region. Palinet launched its Technology Conversations podcast series. A digitization conference titled An Expedition to European Digital Cultural Heritage: Collecting. Connecting and Conserving? will be held in Salzburg, Austria.

Presents news briefs in the computer industry as of March 1, 2005. Information on Groxis Explore, Discover, Understand, an optimized version of Grokker 2.2.; Launching of the Special Libraries Association's Legislative Action Center; Introduction of LexixNexis AlaCarte, a pay-as-you-go service from LexisNexis.

The article presents information on British company Reed Elsevier. The company forge strategic ties with content companies and professional organizations. Its agreement with Google provides some of Reed Elsevier's free products with a reliable advertising model. The American Bar Association and American Bankers Association are among the professional organizations that have teamed with Reed Elsevier to come up with extensions of popular applications that cater specifically to the needs of thousands of professionals.

The article presents information on U.S. company Plone. A key element of the Plone Content Management Systems is its international pedigree. It was designed from the ground up to offer multilingual support, and is now available in more than thirty-five languages including Chinese, Japanese, and right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew. Plone was also designed to provide high levels of usability and accessibility. Plone developers are currently working on Version 3.0, scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2007.

The article presents information on U.S. computer company Mark Logic Corp. Founded in 2001 by Christopher Lindblad and Paul Pederson, Mark Logic Corporation has asserted itself as a leader in the field of search engine and database technology. An XML Content Server marketed as the MarkLogic Server is the heart of this Silicon Valley firm. Users can load text-based content such as documents, web pages, emails, reports, and Microsoft Office files into the MarkLogic Server, and it enables them to query the information much as you would a search engine.

The article presents information on U.S. computer company iUpload. iUpload began business in 1998 as a content management company. In September of this year, the company released the latest version of its flagship corporate blogging platform, The Customer Conversation System. The platform is a content management system that has been tuned specifically for corporate blogging by providing tools that include features such as editorial control, template and taxonomy management, security and versioning.

The article presents information on U.S. computer company Groxis. At a time when enterprise users need search tools that extract the most meaningful results across an ever-growing collection of internal and external sources, Groxis goes beyond basic results lists by returning not only what users have come to expect from searches, but also a visual map that illustrates connections between different types of information. Groxis opened its doors in 2001 with the goal of developing visual web-based search tools for the enterprise. The company work towards facilitating access to essential enterprise knowledge sources and enabling researchers to leverage key digital content for deeper discovery.

The article presents information on Fast Search & Transfer. Enterprise search has come a long way from its roots in simple search technology, and Fast has been at the forefront of that evolution. By continually pushing the boundaries of technical innovation and designing customer-centric vertical market solutions, Fast stands out in the crowded enterprise search market. The firm was founded in Oslo, Norway in 1997 by Hans Gude Gudeson, Espen Brodin, and John Lervik, who recognized the growing importance of search technology as the volume of content on the web exploded. Since selling off its web search platform to Overture in 2003 for $70 million, the company's sole focus has been enterprise search, and it now serves 3,600 customers on six continents.

The article presents information on Brightcove Inc. When Jeremy Allaire founded Brightcove two years ago, he did so with a history that parallels the evolution of content delivery itself. His first major success was co-founding Allaire Corporation, a $120 million-a-year company that developed such Internet enabling technologies as ColdFusion and HomeSite. In late 2000, when the Allaire Corporation merged with Macromedia, Allaire took up the chief trading officer post at Macromedia, where he helped co-lead the evolution of Flash.

Discusses the COMDEX/Fall '99 conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada in November, 1999. Products featured; Keynote speakers, including Bill Gates, Scott McNealy, chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems, and Bob Young, chairman of Red Hat; Portable devices and related appliances featured.

The article reports that innovation is what keeps Mark Logic Corp. on the cutting edge. And the pace has been keeping the staff busy. In fact, the release of the latest version of the MarkLogic Server this summer 2007 was just part of the company's continued expansion, according to John Kreisa, director of product marketing. Among the server's newest features are expanded content processing capabilities, more in-depth content search and analysis, and improved support for administrators and developers. Version 3.2 has a deeper language support with stemming, which understands the tense variations of a verb like ran, and tokenization, which makes information easier to slice and dice, said Kreisa.

The article deals with the trends in the computer industry in the U.S. Large mergers this year at the top of the content technologies marketplace have led some to opine that these markets are finally maturing. Hence, most major Enterprise Content Management suites consist of platforms and toolkits, but customers are often led to believe that a prepackaged solution exists for their particular business scenario. Portal technology vendors target divergent use-cases, and no single platform excels across the broad spectrum of potential portal applications within the enterprise, leaving customers facing difficult trade-offs.

The article comments on factors affecting the efficiency of electronic content. First, delivery mechanisms are now in alignment with electronic content. The second factor at work is that content is now born digital. Native electronic content is extraordinarily mutable. It can change at a moment's notice with no history of what it contained before. This has some frightening implications for serious research, legal precedent, and historical accuracy. Nevertheless, there is every possibility that electronic content, born digital, will outpace digitized-from-print electronic content in the near future.

The article deals with the changes in long essays published in periodicals about the computer industry. Immersive reading is out of fashion, as is single-minded attention to one task. Hence, this column has shrunk from two pages to one, so a reader can go through it in less than 90 seconds. Even at 800 words, though, having to read every sentence is a bit extreme for some. What longer articles do appear are heavy on pictures and light on text. Product reviews no longer have spec paragraphs. Many reviews lack critical details on the products.

The article presents information on Workshare Inc. Workshare supplies a solution to a growing problem that is evident to anyone who has scanned a newspaper in the past year. Workshare provides businesses with secure outbound content compliance solutions to ensure safe information exchange while preventing business disruption. Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite is the company's main offering for outbound content security, it is a network-level endpoint solution that alerts users of security violations, blocks when necessary, and cures the breach when appropriate.

The article presents information on Vignette Corp. The company positions its content solutions in three categories: collaborative document and records management, imaging workflow, and next-generation web presences. The company's solutions are designed to provide a comprehensive approach to employee, customer, partner, supplier, and reseller Internet portals, managing the complete information value chain from collaborative creation of content, to management, and to personalized, targeted delivery.

The article presents information on SDL International. SDL International is a multinational par excellence, with 50 offices in 30 different countries. This means adapting to diverse cultural norms, languages, and markets on a daily basis. While many companies might see this as a hurdle, for a company in the global information management industry, it is actually quite an advantage. The company believes that one of the best things about the Internet is its ability to bring together disparate groups of people. This creates enormous opportunity, but companies that wish to participate in the world market face many challenges.

The article presents information on Open Text Corp. Open Text, whose offerings are anchored by its flagship product Livelink, helps organizations better manage their documents and business processes online. Through several partnerships with industry stalwarts such as Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle, Open Text has effectively bolstered the scope and capabilities of its solutions in order to meet the continually evolving needs of its customers, who represent a variety of markets, including automotive, consumer goods, government and insurance.

The article presents information on Japanese software firm Justsystems Inc. This year, the company wisely purchased XMetal, one of the most popular and flexible XML and DITA suites available, from Blast Radius. XMetaL boasts over 1,000 customers, including DaimlerChrysler, Continental Airline, the European Space Agency, and Texas Instruments. After bouncing among several companies, XMetaL has finally settled into a large, deep-pocketed, multinational company that can give this market-leading solution the global reach it warrants.

The article presents information on U.S. high-technology company Feedburner. Feedburner calls its feeds burned, which means more than just going five. Perks of burned feeds include easy set-up and management, and tracking features that allow users to view and monitor subscribers. Recently launched features reflect the growing, functionality that subscribers and publishers expect from their content. While anyone can tap into the company's flee software, paid subscribers saw a number of new features in 2006, FeedFlare and an advertising network for customers' mutual benefit.

The article presents information on U.S. computer company Factiva. Factiva provides powerful tools for searching and monitoring global news and business information, enabling professionals to make better decisions faster. Factiva products provide rich content collection and access to more than 10,000 sources such as influential newspapers, academic and trade journals, magazines, news and radio network transcripts, Web sites, and images from 152 countries in 22 languages, including more than 120 regularly updated newswires.

The article presents information on U.S. computer company Exalead. Founded in 2000, Exalead is all about optimizing access to the masses of information people are confronted with on a daily basis. Exalead offers solutions to both the general public and businesses, and Bourdoncle sees the market as evenly split between the two. The company's overall goal is to make accessing pertinent information easier. With its business solutions, Exalead is shifting the focus from application-centered computing to search-centered computing by combining elements of knowledge management, content management, and databases.

The article presents information on Apple Corp. Apple did not invent podcasting, but when its iTunes Music Store and media player software integrated podcast downloading in June 2005, the time-shifted portable audio format took off. By letting iPod owners subscribe to shows and download automatically to their iPod, Apple provided what for many was the missing link in on-demand media. It proved especially profound later in 2005 when Apple added video podcasts to the mix. With a monthly iTunes audience of over 20 million this year, thousands of amateur audio and video producers now had a platform to be discovered and distributed.

The article presents news briefs related to the computer industry in the U.S. The Software & Information Industry Association has launched its Corporate Content Anti-Piracy Program. The association will also present its first Certified Content Manager course to educate users on ways to manage their content assets. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to Web-Junction to enhance the usability of the Web site and keep it in pace with its audience and growing content.

This section presents news briefs related to the computer industry in the U.S. The PlayStation3 from Sony Corp. is offering online play for free. Trinity Health's Michigan Stroke Network provides the 22 member hospitals with education and training for staff on stroke care, access to emergency transportation and access to stroke specialists through a Remote Presence Robot.

The article comments on business mergers and acquisitions in the computer software industry. The software industry accounted for 16 percent of total North American mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2004, leading all other industry sectors. A total of 1,630 software companies sold, up 23 percent from 2003. Software M&A valuations continued to vary widely by product category. Despite forecasts of relatively flat IT spending in 2005, a number of other factors are expected to spur software deals this year.