Acer to set up retail kiosks for partners
Acer Computer is deploying a series of kiosks via its retail partners, aimed at stealing some SMB thunder from whitebox vendors and brands such as Dell and IBM. More...

Microsoft extends product support to 10 years
Microsoft announced yesterday that the company will expand its product-support life cycle to a minimum of 10 years for its business and developer products, extending the support for many of its products by at least two years. More...

Four heads move to new roles
Software provider and consultancy Aston Business Solutions has appointed Peter Maggs as its new managing director. More...

ScanSoft tool creates PDF files from Windows apps
ScanSoft has launched a new tool that creates Adobe Portable Document Format files from within any Windows application, and updated another utility that morphs PDF files into Microsoft Word documents. More...

Microsoft offers exchange anti-spam tool to all
This week Microsoft reversed its course and announced it was making its anti-spam technology, dubbed Intelligent Message Filter, available to all Exchange 2003 customers, not just those who have subscribed to the developer's Software Assurance maintenance and upgrade program. More...